| Titania. | Feed him with Apricocks and Dewberries. | Midsummer Night's Dream, act iii, sc. 1 (169). | The Dewberry (Rubus cÆsius) is a handsome fruit, very like the Blackberry, but coming earlier. It has a peculiar sub-acid flavour, which is much admired by some, as it must have been by Titania, who joins it with such fruits as Apricots, Grapes, Figs, and Mulberries. It may be readily distinguished from the Blackberry by the fruit being composed of a few larger drupes, and being covered with a glaucous bloom.
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