The following passage from Coles, in 1657, will illustrate No. 1: "In Gloucestershire about Teuxbury they grind Mustard and make it into balls which are brought to London and other remote places as being the best that the world affords." These Mustard balls were the form in which Mustard was usually sold, until Mrs. Clements, of Durham, in the last century, invented the method of dressing mustard-flour, like wheat-flour, and made her fortune with Durham Mustard; and it has been supposed that this was the only form in which Mustard was sold in Shakespeare's time, and that it was eaten dry as we eat pepper. But the following from an Anglo-Saxon Leech-book seems to speak of it as used exactly in the modern fashion. After mentioning several ingredients in a recipe for want of appetite for meat, it says: "Triturate all together--eke out with vinegar as may seem fit to thee, so that it may be wrought into the form in which Mustard is tempered for flavouring, put it then into a glass vessel, and then with bread, or with whatever meat thou choose, lap it with a spoon, that will help" ("Leech Book," ii. 5, Cockayne's translation). And Parkinson's account is to the same effect: "The seeds hereof, ground between two stones, fitted for the purpose, and called a quern, with some good vinegar added to it to make it liquid and running, is that kind of Mustard that is usually made of all sorts to serve as sauce both for fish and flesh." And to the same effect the "Boke of Nurture"-- "Yet make moche of Mustard, and put it not away, For with every dische he is dewest who so lust to assay." (L. 853). MYRTLE. (1) _Euphronius._ I was of late as petty to his ends As is the morn-dew on the Myrtle-leaf To his grand sea. _Antony and Cleopatra_, act iii, sc. 12 (8). (2) _Isabella._ Merciful Heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled Oak Than the soft Myrtle. _Measure for Measure_, act ii, sc. 2 (114). (3) Venus, with young Adonis sitting by her, Under a Myrtle shade began to woo him. _Passionate Pilgrim_ (143). (4) Then sad she hasteth to a Myrtle grove. _Venus and Adonis_ (865).