h Stover, them to keep.

_Tempest_, act iv, sc. 1 (62).

In this passage, Stover is probably the bent or dried Grass still
remaining on the land, but it is the common word for hay or straw, or
for "fodder and provision for all sorts of cattle; from _Estovers_, law
term, which is so explained in the law dictionaries. Both are derived
from _Estouvier_ in the old French, defined by Roquefort--'Convenance,
necessite, provision de tout ce qui est necessaire.'"--NARES. The word
is of frequent occurrence in the writers of the time of Shakespeare. One
quotation from Tusser will be sufficient--

"Keepe dry thy straw--

"If house-roome will serve thee, lay Stover up drie,
And everie sort by it selfe for to lie.
Or stack it for litter if roome be too poore,
And thatch out the residue, noieng thy door."

_November's Husbandry._

STRAWBERRY.

(1) _Iago._

Have you not sometimes seen a handkerchief
Spotted with Strawberries in your wife's hand?[279:1]

_Othello_, act iii, sc. 3 (434).

(2) _Ely._

The Strawberry grows underneath the Nettle,
And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best
Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality;
And so the prince obscured his contemplation
Under the veil of wildness.

_Henry V_, act i, sc. 1 (60).

(3) _Gloster._

My Lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn,
I saw good Strawberries in your garden there;
I do beseech you send for some of them.

_Ely._

Marry, and will, my Lord, with all my heart.

* * * * *

Where is my lord Protector? I have sent
For these Strawberries.

_King Richard III_, act iii, sc. 4 (32).

The Bishop of Ely's garden in Holborn must have been one of the chief
gardens of England in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, for this
is the third time it has been brought under our notice. It was
celebrated for its Roses (_see_ ROSE); it was so celebrated for its
Saffron Crocuses that part of it acquired the name which it still keeps,
Saffron Hill; and now we hear of its "good Strawberries;" while the
remembrance of "the ample garden," and of the handsome Lord Chancellor
to whom it was given when taken from the bishopric, is still kept a