HAZEL/NUT

*Filberds*Filberts*Thilbirtes*

MERCUTIO

Her chariot is an empty HAZEL-NUT

Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,

Time out o’ mind the fairies’ coachmakers.

—Romeo and Juliet [Act II, sc. 4]

PETRUCHIO

Kate like the HAZEL twig

Is straight and slender and as brown in hue

As HAZEL-NUTS

and sweeter than the kernels.

—Taming of the Shrew [Act II, sc. 1]

CALIBAN

I’ll bring three to clustering FILBERDS.

—Tempest [Act II, sc. 2]

TOUCHSTONE

Sweetest NUT hath sourest rind,

Such a NUT is Rosalind.

—As You Like It [Act III, sc. 2]

CELIA

For his verity in love I do think him as concave

as a covered goblet or a worm-eaten NUT.

—As You Like It [Act III, sc. 4]

LAFEU

Believe this of me,

there can be no kernel in this light NUT.

—All’s Well That Ends Well [Act II, sc. 5]

MERCUTIO

Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking NUTS,

having no other reason but

because thou has HAZEL eyes.

—Romeo and Juliet [Act III, sc. 1]

THERSITES

Hector shall have a great catch,

if he knock out either of your brains;

a’ were as good crack a fusty NUT with no kernel.

—Troilus and Cressida [Act II, sc. 1]

GONZALO

I’ll warrant him for drowning; though the ship

were no stronger than a NUT-SHELL.

—Tempest [Act I, sc. 1]

TITANIA

I have a venturous fairy that shall seek

The squirrel’s hoard, and fetch thee new NUTS.

—A Midsummer Night’s Dream [Act IV, sc. 1]

HAMLET

O God, I could be bounded in a NUT-SHELL and

count myself a king of infinite space,

were it not that I have bad dreams.

—Hamlet [Act II, sc. 2]

DROMIO OF SYRACUSE

Some devils ask but the parings of one’s nail,

A rush, a hair, a drop of blood, a pin,

A NUT, a cherry-stone.

—Comedy of Errors [Act IV, sc. 3]