3).

(3) _Pompey._

First, here's Young Master Rash, he's in for a commodity of
brown paper and old Ginger, nine score and seventeen pounds,
of which he made five marks ready money; marry, then, Ginger
was not much in request, for the old women were all dead.

_Measure for Measure_, act iv, sc. 3 (4).

(4) _Salanio._

I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever knapped
Ginger.

_Merchant of Venice_, act iii, sc. 1 (9).

(5) _2nd Carrier._

I have a gammon of bacon and two razes of Ginger to be
delivered as far as Charing Cross.

_1st Henry IV_, act ii, sc. 1 (26).

(6) _Orleans._

He's of the colour of the Nutmeg.

_Dauphin._

And of the heat of the Ginger.

_Henry V_, act iii, sc. 7 (20).

(7) _Julia._

What is't you took up so Gingerly?

_Two Gentlemen of Verona_, act i, sc. 2 (70).

(8) _Costard._

An I had but one penny in the world, thou should'st have it to
buy Ginger-bread.

_Love's Labour's Lost_, act v, sc. 1 (74).

(9) _Hotspur._

Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art,
A good mouth-filling oath, and leave "in sooth,"
And such protest of pepper Ginger-bread
To velvet-guards and Sunday-citizens.

_1st Henry IV_, act iii, sc. 1 (258).

Ginger was well known both to the Greeks and Romans. It was imported
from Arabia, together with its name, Zingiberri, which it has retained,
with little variation, in all languages.

When it was first imported into England is not known, but probably by
the Romans, for it occurs as a common ingredient in many of the
Anglo-Saxon medical recipes. Russell, in the "Boke of Nurture," mentions
several kinds of Ginger; as green and white, "colombyne, valadyne, and
Maydelyn." In Shakespeare's time it was evidently very common and cheap.

It is produced from the roots of Zingiber officinale, a member of the
large and handsome family of the Ginger-worts. The family contains some
of the most beautiful of our greenhouse plants, as the Hedychiums,
Alpinias, and Mantisias; and, though entirely tropical, most of the
species are of easy cultivation in England. Ginger is very easily reared
in hotbeds, and I should think it very