FOOTNOTES:
[106:1] There is a hill near Lansdown (Bath) now called Frizen or Freezing Hill. Within memory of man it was covered with Gorse. This was probably the origin of the name, "Vrisen Hill."
[106:2] "Promptorium Parvulorum," p. 162, note.
GOURD.
| Pistol. | For Gourd and fullam holds. | |
| Merry Wives, act i, sc. 3 (94). | ||
I merely mention this to point out that "Gourd," though probably originally derived from the fruit, is not the fruit here, but is an instrument of gambling. The fruit, however, was well known in Shakespeare's time, and was used as the type of intense greenness—
"Whose cœrule stream, rombling in pebble-stone,
Crept under Moss, as green as any Gourd."
Spenser, Virgil's Gnat.