So in Russell's "Book of Nurture:" "After mete . . . pepyns Careaway in comfyte," line 78, and the same in line 714; and in Wynkyn de Worde's "Boke of Kervynge" ("Babee's Book," p. 266 and 271), and in F. Seager's "Schoole of Vertue" ("Babee's Book," p. 343)-- "Then cheese with fruite On the table set, With Bisketes or Carowayes As you may get." The custom of serving roast Apples with a little saucerful of Carraway is still kept up at Trinity College, Cambridge, and, I believe, at some of the London Livery dinners. CARROT. _Evans._ Remember, William, focative is _caret_, _Quickly._ And that's a good root. _Merry Wives_, act iv, sc. 1 (55). Dame Quickly's pun gives us our Carrot, a plant which, originally derived from our wild Carrot (_Daucus Carota_), was introduced as a useful vegetable by the Flemings in the time of Elizabeth, and has probably been very little altered or improved since the time of its introduction. In Shakespeare's time the name was applied to the "Yellow Carrot" or Parsnep, as well as to the Red one. The name of Carrot comes directly from its Latin or rather Greek name, Daucus Carota, but it once had a prettier name. The Anglo-Saxons called it "bird's-nest," and Gerard gives us the reason, and it is a reason that shows they were more observant of the habits of plants than we generally give them credit for: "The whole tuft (of flowers) is drawn together when the seed is ripe, resembling a bird's nest; whereupon it hath been named of some Bird's-nest." CEDAR. (1) _Prospero._ And by the spurs pluck'd up The Pine and Cedar. _Tempest_, act v, sc. 1 (47). (2) _Dumain._ As upright as the Cedar. _Love's Labour's Lost_, act iv, sc. 3 (89). (3) _Warwick._ As on a mountain top the Cedar shows, That keeps his leaves in spite of any storm. _2nd Henry VI_, act v, sc. 1 (205). (4) _Warwick._ Thus yields the Cedar to the axe's edge, Whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle, Under whose shade the ramping lion slept, Whose top-branch o'erpeered Jove's spreading tree, And kept low shrubs from winter's powerful wind. _3rd Henry VI_, act v, sc. 2 (11). (5) _Cranmer._ He shall flourish, And, like a mountain Cedar, reach his branches To all the plains about him. _Henry VIII_, act v, sc. 5 (215). (6) _Posthumus._ When from a stately Cedar shall be lopped branches, which, being dead many years, shall after revive. _Cymbeline_, act v, sc. 4 (140); and act v, sc. 5 (457). (7) _Soothsayer._ The lofty Cedar, royal Cymbeline, Personates thee. Thy lopp'd branches . . . . . are now revived, To the majestic Cedar join'd.