[455] “Plant-Lore of Shakespeare,” pp. 10, 11.
[456] Phillips, “Flora Historica,” 1829, vol. i. p. 104.
[457] Ellacombe’s “Plant-Lore of Shakespeare,” p. 13.
[458] Dyce’s “Glossary to Shakespeare,” p. 15.
[459] See Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 29; probably synonymous with the term “apple-Squire,” which formerly signified a pimp.
[460] Forby, in his “Vocabulary of East Anglia,” says of this apple, “we retain the name, but whether we mean the same variety of fruit which was so called in Shakespeare’s time, it is not possible to ascertain.”
[461] Ellacombe’s “Plant-Lore of Shakespeare,” p. 16; Dyce’s “Glossary,” p. 430; Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. i. p. 81; Coles’s “Latin and English Dictionary.” “A bitter-suete [apple]—Amari-mellum.”
[462] See [chapter xi., Customs connected with the Calendar].
[463] See [chapter on Customs connected with Birth and Baptism].
[464] Edited by Dyce, 1861, p. 446. Many fanciful derivations for this word have been thought of, but it was no doubt named from its smoothness and softness, resembling the wool of lambs.