Costard

III.i. 112 (377,5) [how was there a Costard broken in a shin?] _Costard_ is the name of a species of apple.

Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746

Even the twiggy sticks of young Cornish Costard, Banana Pippin and Gladstone are thick with blossom.

Country Diary: St Dominic, Tamar Valley 2011

Why the devil did Costard want to come there, anyway, where he had no business in the world?

Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009

I say, Costard took not only the broken stick, but also some folded papers from the old man.

Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009

“Costard,” groaned Will, coming up behind me to peer out.

Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009

The man I heard the story from told me that Costard swore truth out of Stratford that he was alone when he saw a horrible hobgoblin spirit floating among the trees.

Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009

“Because the letter read like the work of someone mad, and I thought it must truly have come from Costard,” Giles said.

Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009

“Because Costard not only took away the broken head of the staff, leaving it on the pathway so someone would find it and think the murderer had fled to the south of town—”

Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009

Believe me or not, but Costard was a learned man once, a clerk of a church, before he took hard to drink.

Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009

“And are you going to send Costard a letter from Giles Speight as well?”

Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009