I will dance and eat Plums at your wedding. _Merry Wives of Windsor_, act v, sc. 5.[217:1] (5) The mellow Plum doth fall, the green sticks fast, Or, being early pluck'd, is sour to taste. _Venus and Adonis_ (527). (6) Like a green Plum that hangs upon a tree, And falls, through wind, before the fall should be. _Passionate Pilgrim_ (135). (7) _Slender._ Three veneys for a dish of stewed Prunes. _Merry Wives of Windsor_, act i, sc. 1 (295). (8) _Falstaff._ There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed Prune. _1st Henry IV_, act iii, sc. 3 (127). (9) _Pompey._ Longing (saving your honour's presence) for stewed Prunes. * * * * * And longing, as I said, for Prunes. * * * * * You being then, if you he remembered, cracking the stones of the foresaid Prunes. _Measure for Measure_, act ii, sc. 1 (92). (10) _Clown._ Four pounds of Prunes, and as many of Raisins of the sun. _Winters Tale_, act iv, sc. 3 (51). (11) _Falstaff._ Hang him, rogue; he lives upon mouldy stewed Prunes and dried cakes. _2nd Henry IV_, act ii, sc. 4 (158). Plums, Damsons, and Prunes may conveniently be joined together, Plums and Damsons being often used synonymously (as in No. 3), and Prunes being the dried Plums. The Damsons were originally, no doubt, a good variety from the East, and nominally from Damascus.[217:2] They seem to have been considered great delicacies, as in a curious allegorical drama of the fifteenth century, called "La Nef de Sante," of which an account is given by Mr. Wright: "Bonne-Compagnie, to begin the day, orders a collation, at which, among other things, are served Damsons (_Prunes de Damas_), which appear at this time to have been considered as delicacies. There is here a marginal direction to the purport that if the morality should be performed in the season when real Damsons could not be had, the performers must have some made of wax to look like real ones" ("History of Domestic Manners," &c.).