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apple “of the eye”: the pupil of the eye, so called because it was supposed to be a solid globular body MND. III. ii. 104; LLL. V. ii. 476* “laugh upon the apple of her eye” (‘laugh upon her in a very affectionate manner’).
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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