SC - Two questions

[Marian Deborah Rosenberg]

Love's Labor's Lost by Shakespeare --

V ii 464-465

Some mumble news, some trencher knight, some Dick,
That smiles his cheek in years and knows the trick

The footnote in my edition "The Riverside Shakespeare 2nd edition" defines
trencher-knight as a parasite.  It then goes on to say that a trencher is a
wooden platter or dish.

Wasn't the bread trencher still being used in Elizabethan times?

V ii 644-650

Armado:     The armipotent Mars, of lances the almighty
            Gave Hector a gift--
Dumaine:    A [gilt] nutmeg
Berowne:    A lemon.
Longaville: Stuck with cloves.
Dumaine:    No, cloven.
Armado:     Peace!--

I thought the cloved fruit tradition was purely SCA, would someone care to
enlighten me?
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