NUTMEG/MACE

ORLEANS

He’s of the colour of the NUTMEG.

—Henry V [Act III, sc. 7]

SHEPHERD’S SON/CLOWN

I must have saffron to colour the warden

pies; MACE; dates?—none, that’s out of my note;

NUTMEGS, seven; a race or two of ginger,

but that I may beg;

four pound of prunes, and as many of

raisins o’ the sun.

—Winter’s Tale [Act IV, sc. 3]

ARMANDO

omnipotent Mars, of lances the almighty,

Gave Hector a gift—

DUMAIN

A gilt NUTMEG.

—Love’s Labour’s Lost [Act V, sc. 2]