, sc. 4 (16).

(9) _France._

Balm of your age,
Most best, most dearest.

_King Lear_, act i, sc. 1 (218).

(10) _K. Henry._

Let all the tears that should bedew my hearse
Be drops of Balm to sanctify thy head.

_2nd Henry IV_, act iv, sc. 5 (114).

(11) _Mowbray._

I am disgraced, impeach'd, and baffled here:
Pierced to the soul with slander's venom'd spear;
The which no Balm can cure, but his heart-blood
Which breathed this poison.

_Richard II_, act i, sc. 1 (170).

(12) _Dromio of Syracuse._

Our fraughtage, Sir,
I have conveyed aboard, and I have bought
The oil, the Balsamum, and aqua vitae.

_Comedy of Errors_, act iv, sc. 1 (187).

(13) _Alcibiades._

Is this the Balsam that the usuring Senate
Pours into captains' wounds?

_Timon of Athens_, act iii, sc. 5 (110).

(14) _Macbeth._

Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great Nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast.

_Macbeth_, act ii, sc. 2 (37).

(15) _Quickly._

The several chairs of order look you scour
With juice of Balm and every precious flower.

_Merry Wives_, act v, sc. 5 (65).

(16) _Cleopatra._

As sweet as Balm, as soft as air, as gentle.

_Antony and Cleopatra_, act v, sc. 2 (314).

(17)

And trembling in her passion, calls it Balm,
Earth's sovereign salve to do a goddess good.

_Venus and Adonis_ (27).

(18)

And drop sweet Balm in Priam's painted wound.

_Lucrece_ (1466).

(19)

With the drops of this most balmy time
My love looks fresh.

_Sonnet_ cvii.

In all these passages, except the two last, the reference is to the Balm
or Balsam which was imported from the East, from very early times, and
was highly valued for its curative properties. The origin of Balsam was
for a long time a secret, but it is now known to