GOURD

*Pumpion *Marrow*Curbita*

MISTRESS FORD

We’ll use this unwholesome humidity,

this gross watery PUMPION.

—Merry Wives of Windsor [Act III, sc. 3]

TIMON

O, a root,—dear thanks!—

Dry up thy MARROWS, vines,

and plough-torn leas

Whereof ungrateful man, with liquorish draughts

And morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind,

That from it all consideration slips!

—Timon of Athens [Act IV, sc. 3]

PAROLLES

A good knave, i’ faith, and well fed. . . .

Whose want, and whose delay,

is strew’d with sweets,

Which they distil now

in the CURBED TIME [CURBITA]

To make the coming hour o’erflow with joy

And pleasure drown the brim.

—All’s Well That Ends Well [Act II, sc. 4]

PISTOL

For GOURD and fullam holds.

—Merry Wives of Windsor [Act I, sc. 3]