Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden: A Posy from the PlaysShakespeare, William
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Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden: A Posy from the Plays
Shakespeare, William
English drama -- Illustrations; Flowers in literature; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Illustrations
Love's Labour's Lost, Act iv. Sc. 3.
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"The azured harebell, like thy veins."
Cymbeline, Act iv., Sc. 2.
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"Larksheels trim"
Two Noble Kinsmen.
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"Get you some of this distilled Carduus Benedictus
and lay it to your heart;—"
"Why Benedictus? You have some moral in this
Benedictus"
"Moral?
No, by my
troth. I have no
moral meaning:
I meant, plain
Holy thistle"
Much Ado
about Nothing,
Act iii., Sc. 4.
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"The female ivy so
Enrings the barky fingers of the elm"
Midsummer Night's Dream.
Act V., Sc. 2
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"The strawberry grows underneath the nettle,
And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best
Neighboured by fruit of baser quality"
Henry V.,
Act I., Sc. 1
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"Gives not the hawthorne-bush a sweeter shade
To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep,
Than doth a rich embroidered canopy
To kings that fear their subjects' treachery?"
3 Henry VI., Act ii., Sc. 5.
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"If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries"
I Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 4
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"Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly"
As You Like It,
Act ii., Sc. 7.
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'Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels.'
Troilus & Cressida, Act i., Sc. 3
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CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED, LITH. LONDON.
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