Hamlet vocabulary

I poked around and discovered it stuffed among a pile of cockles.

Sue Monk Kidd. The Mermaid Chair, p.88 (2005)

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 We'll therefore go withal, my girl, and live

 In a free state, where we will eat our mullets,

 Soused in high-country wines, sup pheasants' eggs,

 And have our cockles boil'd in silver shells;

Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)

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how atrocious to treat those Chinese cockle pickers like that,

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Americanah, p.338 (2013)

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The fourth commandment is disregarded on all sides; from the prince who has his fish on the Sunday from the fishmonger down to the costermonger who sells cockles in the street, all nominal Christians forget and disobey this command;

Annie Besant. My Path to Atheism (1885)

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How should I your true-love know

From another one?

By his cockle hat* and' staff

And his sandal shoon.

William Shakespeare. Hamlet

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My cockle hat* and staff and hismy sandal shoon.

James Joyce. Ulysses

 Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)