Costard upper-class. While mocking a pedantic schoolmaster, Costard uses the word "honorificabilitudinitatibus", the longest word by far from any of Shakespeare's works. Costard makes many clever puns, and is used as a tool by Shakespeare to explain new words such as "remuneration". He is sometimes considered one of the smartest characters in the play due to his wit and wordplay. Costard's name is an archaic term for apple, or metaphorically a man's head. Shakespeare uses the word in this sense in "Richard III". Costard Costard is a comic figure in the play "Love's Labour's Lost" by William Shakespeare. A country bumpkin,
Basket of Fruit (Caravaggio) Life with Fruit" (c. 1603), a painting which John Spike identifies as "the source of all subsequent Roman still-life paintings." Basket of Fruit (Caravaggio) Basket of Fruit (c.1599) is a still life painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), which hangs in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Ambrosian Library), Milan. It shows a wicker basket perched on the edge of a ledge. The basket contains a selection of summer fruit: ... a good-sized, light-red peach attached to a stem with wormholes in the leaf resembling damage by oriental fruit moth (Orthosia hibisci). Beneath it is a single bicolored