The plant-lore & garden-craft of ShakespeareEllacombe, Henry Nicholson
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The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare
Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson
Gardens in literature; Plants in literature; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Botany
Give me swift transportance to those fields,
Where I may wallow in the Lily beds
Proposed for the deserver.
_Troilus and Cressida_, act iii, sc. 2 (12).
(11) _Marcus._
O, had the monster seen those Lily hands
Tremble, like Aspen leaves, upon a lute.
_Titus Andronicus_, act ii, sc. 4 (44).
(12) _Titus._
Fresh tears
Stood on her cheeks as doth the honey-dew
Upon a gather'd Lily almost wither'd.
_Ibid._, act iii, sc. 1 (111).
(13) _Iachimo._
How bravely thou becomest thy bed, fresh Lily!
_Cymbeline_, act ii, sc. 2 (15).
(14) _Guiderius._
O sweetest, fairest Lily!
My brother wears thee not the one half so well,
As when thou grew'st thyself.
_Ibid._, act iv, sc. 2 (201).
(15) _Constance._
Of Nature's gifts thou may'st with Lilies boast,
And with the half-blown Rose.
_King John_, act iii, sc. 1 (53).
(16) _Salisbury._
To gild refined gold, to paint the Lily,
To throw a perfume on the Violet,
* * * * *
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
_Ibid._, act iv, sc. 2 (11).
(17) _Kent._
A Lily-livered, action-taking knave.
_King Lear_, act ii, sc. 2 (18).
(18) _Macbeth_
Thou Lily-liver'd boy.
_Macbeth_, act v, sc. 3 (15).
(19)
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
_Sonnet_ xciv.
(20)
Nor did I wonder at the Lily's white,
Nor praise the deep vermilion of the Rose.
_Ibid._ xcviii.
(21)
The Lily I condemned for thy hand.
_Ibid._ xcix.
(22)
Their silent war of Lilies and of Roses
Which Tarquin view'd in her fair face's field.
_Lucrece_ (71).
(23)
Her Lily hand her rosy cheek lies under,
Cozening the pillow of a lawful kiss.
_Ibid._ (386).
(24)
The colour in thy face
That even for anger makes the Lily pale,
And the red Rose blush at her own disgrace.
_Ibid._ (477).
(25)
A Lily pale with damask die to grace her.
_Passionate Pilgrim_ (89).
(26)
Full gently now she takes him by the hand,
A Lily prison'd in a jail of snow.
_Venus and Adonis_ (361).
(27)
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