_Etymology of Mushroom._--In the sixteenth century this word appears
generally to have been spelt _Mushrump_. Nares, in his valuable _Glossary_,
gives an instance from Marlow's play of _Edward the Second_, 1598; but
there is an earlier example in Robert Southwell's _Spirituall Poems_, 1595:
"He that high growth on cedars did bestow,
Gave also lowly _mushrumps_ leave to growe."
It is also spelt _Mushrump_ in Cockeram's _Dictionary_, 1632. These
instances may possibly lead to a correct etymology of the word.