66 NATURAL HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE . 
Touchstone, Stand you both forth now : stroke your 
chins, and swear by your beards that I am a knave. 
Celia. By our beards, if we had them, thou art. 
Touchstone. By my knavery, if I had it, then I 
were : but if you swear by that that is not, you are 
not forsworn : no more was this knight, swearing by his 
honour, for he never had any ; or if he had, he had 
sworn it away before ever he saw those pancakes or 
that mustard. 
As You Like It, Act i. Scene 2. 
Grumio. . . . What say you to a piece of 
beef and mustard? 
Katharine. A dish that I do love to feed upon. 
Grumio. Ay, but the mustard is too hot a little. 
Katharine. Why, then the beef, and let the mustard 
rest. 
Grumio. Nay, then I will not; you shall have the 
mustard, 
Or else you get no beef of Grumio. 
Katharine. Then both, or one, or anything thou 
wilt. 
Grumio. Why, then the mustard without the beef. 
Taming of the Shrew, Act iv. Scene 3. 
Falstaff. ... his wit is as thick as Tewks¬ 
bury mustard ; 
King Henry IV., Part II. Act ii. Scene 4. 
RHUBARB AND SENNA. 
Macbeth. What rhubarb, senna, or what purgative 
drug, 
Would scour these English hence ? 
Macbeth, Actv. Scene 3. 
