For his verity in love I do think him as concave as a covered goblet or a worm-eaten Nut. _Ibid._, act iii, sc. 4 (25). (6) _Lafeu._ Believe this of me, there can be no kernel in this light Nut. _All's Well that Ends Well_, act ii, sc. 5 (46). (7) _Mercutio._ Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking Nuts, having no other reason but because thou hast Hazel eyes. _Romeo and Juliet_, act iii, sc. 1 (20). (8) _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 (109). (9) _Gonzalo._ I'll warrant him for drowning; though the ship were no stronger than a Nut-shell. _Tempest_, act i, sc. 1 (49). (10) _Titania._ I have a venturous fairy that shall seek The squirrel's hoard, and fetch thee new Nuts. _Midsummer Night's Dream_, act iv, sc. 1 (40). (11) _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 (260). (12) _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 (72). Dr. Prior has decided that "'Filbert' is a barbarous compound of _phillon_ or _feuille_, a leaf, and _beard_, to denote its distinguishing peculiarity, the leafy involucre projecting beyond the nut." But in the times before Shakespeare the name was more poetically said to be derived from the nymph Phyllis. Nux Phyllidos is its name in the old vocabularies, and Gower ("Confessio Amantis") tells us why-- "Phyllis in the same throwe Was shape into a Nutte-tree, That alle men it might see; And after Phyllis philliberde, This tre was cleped in the yerde" (Lib. quart.), and so Spenser spoke of it as "'Phillis' philbert" (Elegy 17).[115:1] The Nut, the Filbert, and the Cobnut, are all botanically the same, and the two last were cultivated in England long before Shakespeare's time, not only for the fruit, but also, and more especially, for the oil.