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yet it may not be thought amiss to refer to it again, 
if only to include an old Shakespearian recipe for a 
pomander : 
“ To make a Pomander .—Take pyppyns or other lyke 
melowe apples, and laye them upon a tyle for to 
bake in an oven, then take out the core and the 
kernels, and make theym cleane wythin, brayenge 
and breakynge the reste, and strayne it throughe a 
fyne canvesse or straynour. Thys done, take as 
much fat or grease of a kydde as you have apples 
and strayne it lykewyse, boylinge it all together in a 
newe vessell well leaded, untyll the rose water bee 
consumed : then adde to it muske, cloves, nutmegges 
and such lyke substances of a reasonable quantity e 
according to your discretion : provided alwayes that 
they be well brayed and broken in pyeces as is above 
sayed, and boyle them in the like manner aforesayed, 
then straine them and kepe them” (Alexis, 57). 
Very closely related to the apple is the pear 
(Pyrus communis, L.), in its wild state another of 
our native fruit-trees, but a tree confined in range to 
the Continent of Europe. Twice the poet refers to 
a dried pear ; first : 
and again : 
As crestfallen as a dried pear. 
Merry Wives, IV. v. 101; 
Marry, ’tis a withered pear. 
All's Well that Ends Well , I. i. 177. 
Once in Romeo and Juliet reference is made to “ a 
poperin pear” (II. i. 38), and once to warden pies— 
that is, pies made from Warden pears (Winter s Tale , 
IV. iii. 48). 
Ellacombe suggests (p. 211) that by Warden pears 
Shakespeare refers to any large keeping kinds, 
originally ^brought to perfection by the Cistercian 
