n of a garden was drawn as much from his English as from his
French experience.

[167:2] The authority may be in the "Promptorium Parvulorum:" "Mulberry,
Morum (selsus)."

[167:3] "Moratum potionis genus, f. ex vino et moris dilutis
confectae."--_Glossarium Adelung._

[168:1] Cunningham's "Handbook of London," p. 346, with many quotations
from the old dramatists.

[169:1] Some of these snuff-boxes were inscribed with the punning motto
"Memento Mori."

MUSHROOMS.

(1) _Prospero._

You demi-puppets, that
By moonshine do the greensour ringlets make,
Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime
Is to make midnight Mushrooms.

_Tempest_, act v, sc. 1 (36).

(2) _Fairy._

I do wander everywhere.
Swifter than the moon's sphere;
And I serve the fairy queen,
To dew her orbs upon the green.

_Midsummer Night's Dream_, act ii, sc. 1 (6).

(3) _Quickly._

And nightly, meadow-fairies, look you sing,
Like to the Garter's compass, in a ring:
The expressure that it bears, green let it be,
More fertile-fresh than all the field to see.

_Merry Wives_, act v, sc. 5 (69).

(4) _Ajax._

Toadstool, learn me the proclamation.

_Troilus and Cressida_, act ii, sc. 1 (22).

The three first passages, besides the notice of the Mushroom, contain
also the notice of the fairy-rings, which are formed by fungi, though
probably Shakespeare knew little of this. No. 4 names the Toadstool, and
the four passages together contain the whole of Shakespeare's fungology,
and it is little to be wondered at that he has not more to say on these
curious plants. In his time "Mushrumes or Toadstooles" (they were all
classed together) were looked on with very suspicious eyes, though they
were so much eaten that we frequently find in the old herbals certain
remedies against "a surfeit of Mushrooms." Why they should have been
connected with toads has never been explained, but it was always so--

"The grieslie Todestoole growne there mought I see,
And loathed paddocks lording on the same."--SPENSER.

They were associated with other loathsome objects besides toads, for
"Poisonous Mushrooms groweth where old rusty iron lieth, or rotten
clouts, or neere to serpent's dens or rootes of trees that bring forth
venomous