last year's Pippin of my own graffing, with a dish of
Caraways, and so forth.

* * * * *

_Davey._

There's a dish of Leather-coats for you.

_Ibid._, act v, sc. 3 (1, 44).

(20) _Evans._

I pray you be gone; I will make an end of my dinner. There's
Pippins and cheese to come.

_Merry Wives of Windsor_, act i, sc. 2 (11).

(21) _Holofernes._

The deer was, as you know, _sanguis_, in blood; ripe as the
Pomewater, who now hangeth like a jewel in the ear of
_coelo_--the sky, the welkin, the heaven; and anon falleth
like a Crab on the face of _terra_--the soil, the land, the
earth.

_Love's Labour's Lost_, act iv, sc. 2 (3).

(22) _Mercutio._

Thy wit is a very Bitter Sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce.

_Romeo._

And is it not well served in to a sweet goose?

_Romeo and Juliet_, act ii, sc. 4 (83).

(23) _Petruchio._

What's this? A sleeve? 'Tis like a demi-cannon.
What! up and down, carved like an Apple-tart?

_Taming of the Shrew_, act iv, sc. 3 (88).

(24)

How like Eve's Apple doth thy beauty grow,
If thy sweet virtue answer not thy show!

_Sonnet_ xciii.

Here Shakespeare names the Apple, the Crab, the Pippin, the Pomewater,
the Apple-john, the Codling, the Caraway, the Leathercoat, and the
Bitter-Sweeting. Of the Apple generally I need say nothing, except to
notice that the name was not originally confined to the fruit now so
called, but was a generic name applied to any fruit, as we still speak
of the Love-apple, the Pine-apple,[20:1] &c. The Anglo-Saxon name for
the Blackberry was the Bramble-apple; and Sir John Mandeville, in
describing the Cedars of Lebanon, says: "And upon the hills growen Trees
of Cedre, that ben fulle hye, and they beren longe Apples, and als grete
as a man's heved"[20:2] (cap. ix.). In the English Bible it is the same.
The Apple is mentioned in a few places, but it is almost certain that it
never means the Pyrus malus, but is either the Orange, Citron, or
Quince, or is a general name for a tree fruit. So that when Shakespeare
(24) and the other old writers speak of Eve's Apple, they do not
necessarily assert that the fruit