In Act 3, Scene 1 of “Much Ado about Nothing,” Hero says that “_Nature never framed a woman’s heart Of prouder stuff than that of Beatrice_” who would swear that if a man were tall he would be like “_A lance illheaded; “If low, an agate very vilely cut._” In Act 2, Scene 1 of “Love’s Labours Lost,” Boyet tells the Princess of France that Navarre’s heart is “_Like an agate, with your print impressed._” In King Henry IV, Part I, Act 2, Scene 4, Prince Hal says to Francis: “_Wilt thou rob this leathern jerkin, crystal button, knott-pated, agate-ring, puke-stocking, caddis-garter, smooth tongue, Spanish-pouch,..._” Falstaff in Part 2, Act 1, Scene 2, of the same play complains to his page that he was never “manned with an agate till now.” (These quotations all serve to show how popular the agate was as a ring stone in Shakespeare’s time.) AMBER Hamlet, in answer to a question, tells Polonius that the “satirical rogue” whose book he is reading says that old men’s eyes are “purging thick amber and plum-tree gum” (Act 2, Scene 2), a thought no doubt suggested by the ancient myth of the “weeping sisters.” Petruchio asks his “Mistress Kate”: “_Will we return unto thy father’s house ... With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knavery?_” (“Taming of the Shrew,” Act 4, Sc. 3.) Says Dumain in “Love’s Labours Lost” (Act 4, Scene 3): “_Her amber hair for foul hath amber quoted_” and Biron— “_An amber-coloured raven was well noted._” CARBUNCLE Dromio of Syracuse in Act 3, Scene 2, of the “Comedy of Errors,” speaks of “_Her nose all o’er embellished with rubies, carbuncles, sapphires._” Titus Lartius says of Marcius: “_Thou art lost, Marcius; A carbuncle entire, as big as thou art, Were not so rich a jewel._” “Coriolanus,” Act 1, Sc. 4. Iachimo, the soothsayer, (Cymbeline, Act 5, Scene 5) tells that— “_He, true knight, No lesser of her honour confident Than I did truly find her, stakes this ring: And would so, had it been a carbuncle Of Phoebus’ wheel, and might so safely, had it Been all the worth of’s car._” Hamlet speaks to the Players (Act 2, Scene 2) of Pyrrhus: “_With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus Old grandsire Priam seeks._” Again the poet uses the “carbuncle of Phoebus’ wheel” in “Antony and Cleopatra,” Act 4, Scene 8: “_He has deserved it, were it carbuncled Like holy Phoebus’ car._” CHRYSOLITE The fated Moor says of his poor murdered Desdemona in the last scene of the last act of “Othello”: