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(1) Such protest of Pepper-gingerbread. 
1 st Henry IV. , iii. 1, 260. {See Ginger, 9.) 
(2) An I have not forgotten what the inside of a church is made of, I am 
a Pepper-corn, a brewer’s horse. — Ibid. , iii. 3, 8 . 
(3) Poms. Pray God, you have not murdered some of them. 
Falstaff. Nay, that’s past praying for, for I have Peppered two of 
them.— Ibid., ii. 4, 210. 
(4) I have led my ragamuffins, where they are Peppered.— Ibid., v. 3, 36. 
(5) I am Peppered, I warrant, for this world. 
Romeo and Juliet, iii. 1, 102. 
(6) He cannot ’scape me, ’tis impossible he should ; he cannot creep into 
a halfpenny purse or into a Pepper-box.— Merry Wives, iii. 5, 147. 
(7) Here’s the challenge, read it ; I warrant there’s vinegar and Pepper 
in’t. — Twelfth Night, iii. 4, 157. 
Pepper is the seed of Piper nigrum, “ whose drupes form 
the black Pepper of the shops when dried with the skin upon 
them, and white Pepper when that flesh is removed by 
washing.”— Lindley. It is, like all the pepperworts, a native 
of the Tropics, but was well known both to the Greeks and 
Romans. By the Greeks it was probably not much used, but 
in Rome it seems to have been very common, if we may judge 
by Horace’s lines— 
“ Deferar in vicum, vendentem thus et odores, 
Et piper, et quidquid chartis amicitur ineptis.” 
Epistolce, ii. 1-270. 
And in another place he mentions “ Pipere albo ” as an 
ingredient in cooking. Juvenal mentions it as an article of 
commerce, “piperis coemti” (“ Sat.” xiv. 293). Persius speaks 
of it in more than one passage, and Pliny describes it so 
minutely that he evidently not only knew the imported spice, 
but also - had seen the living plant. By the Romans it was 
