PEAR

*Warden*Popering*

FALSTAFF

I warrant they would whip me with their fine

wits till I were as crest-fallen as a dried PEAR.

—Merry Wives of Windsor [Act IV, sc. 5]

PAROLLES

Your virginity, your old virginity, is like one of

our French withered PEARS, it looks ill, it eats

drily; marry, ’tis a withered PEAR; it was formerly

better; marry, yet ’tis a withered PEAR.

—All’s Well That Ends Well [Act I, sc. 1]

SHEPHERD’S SON/CLOWN

I must have saffron

to colour the WARDEN pies.

—Winter’s Tale [Act IV, sc. 3]

MERCUTIO

Romeo, that she were O, that she were

An open arse, thou a Poperin’ PEAR.

—Romeo and Juliet [Act II, sc. 1]