The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare

MACE.

	Clown.	I must have Saffron to colour the warden-pies—Mace—Dates? none.
Winter's Tale, act iv, sc. 3 (48).

The Mace is the pretty inner rind that surrounds the Nutmeg, when ripe. It was no doubt imported with the Nutmeg in Shakespeare's time. (See Nutmeg.)

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