/©ace. 
I must have Saffron to colour the warden-pies—Mace—Dates ? none. 
Winter’s Tale , iv. 3, 48. 
ACE is the pretty inner rind that surrounds the 
Nutmeg, when ripe. It was no doubt imported 
with the Nutmeg in Shakespeare’s time, and 
was certainly known in the fourteenth century. 
(See Synonima Bartholomei.) (See Nutmeg.) 
/©allows. 
Antonio. He’ld sow’t it with Nettle seed. 
Sebastian. Or Docks, or Mallows. — Tempest, ii. I, 145. 
The Mallow is the common roadside weed (Malva sy Ives Iris), 
which is not altogether useless 
in medicine, though the Marsh 
Mallow far surpasses it in this 
respect. Ben Jonson speaks of 
it as an article of food— 
“ The thresher . . . feeds on Mal¬ 
lows and such bitter herbs.” 
The Fox , i. 1. 
It is not easy to believe that our 
common Wild Mallow was so 
used, and Johnson probably took 
the idea from Horace— 
“ Me pascant olivse, 
Me chichorea, levesque malvse.” 
But the common Mallow is a 
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