DATES

SHEPHERD’S SON/CLOWN

I must have saffron to colour the warden pies—

Mace; DATES? None; that’s out of my note.

—Winter’s Tale [Act IV, sc. 3]

NURSE

They call for DATES and quinces

in the pastry.

—Romeo and Juliet [Act IV, sc. 4]

PAROLLES

Your DATE is better in your pie and your

porridge than in your cheek.

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

PANDARUS

Do you know what a man is?

Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse,

manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue,

youth, liberality, and suchlike,

the spice and salt that season a man?

CRESSIDA

Ay, a minced man;

and then to be baked with no DATE in the pie;

for then the man’s DATE’S out.

—Troilus and Cressida [Act I, sc. 2]