locusts —
“Luscious as,”
OTHELLO, i. 3. 346.
It seems doubtful whether locusts is to be
understood here to mean insects or the fruit of a certain tree,—both being eaten.
“It appears from the books I have referred to, that the
locusts above named are the fruit of the Carob tree (Siliqua dulcis),”
Beisly's Shakspere's
Garden, p. 163.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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