WALNUT

PETRUCHIO

Why, ’tis a cockle or a WALNUT-shell,

A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby’s cap.

—Taming of the Shrew [Act IV, sc. 3]

MASTER FORD

Let them say of me, “As jealous as Ford

that searched a hollow WALNUT

for his wife’s leman.”

—Merry Wives of Windsor [Act IV, sc. 2]