When shepherds pipe on Oaten straws. _Love's Labour's Lost_, act v, sc. 2 (913). (3) _Bottom._ Truly a peck of provender; I could munch your good dry Oats. _Midsummer Night's Dream_, act iv, sc. 1 (35). (4) _Grumio._ Ay, sir, they be ready; the Oats have eaten the horses. _Taming of the Shrew_, act iii, sc. 2 (207). (5) _First Carrier._ Poor fellow, never joyed since the price of Oats rose--it was the death of him. _1st Henry IV_, act ii, sc. 1 (13). (6) _Captain._ I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried Oats, If it be man's work, I'll do it. _King Lear_, act v, sc. 3 (38). Shakespeare's Oats need no comment, except to note that the older English name for Oats was Haver (_see_ "Promptorium Parvulorum," p. 372; and "Catholicon Anglicum," p. 178, with the notes). The word was in use in Shakespeare's time, and still survives in the northern parts of England. OLIVE. (1) _Clarence._ To whom the heavens in thy nativity Adjudged an Olive branch. _3rd Henry VI_, act iv, sc. 6 (33). (_See_ LAUREL.) (2) _Alcibiades._ Bring me into your city, And I will use the Olive with my sword. _Timon of Athens_, act v, sc. 4 (81). (3) _Cæsar._ Prove this a prosperous day, the three-nook'd world Shall bear the Olive freely. _Antony and Cleopatra_, act iv, sc. 6 (5). (4) _Rosalind._ If you will know my house 'Tis at the tuft of Olives here hard by. _As You Like It_, act iii, sc. 5 (74). (5) _Oliver._ Where, in the purlieus of this forest stands A sheepcote fenced about with Olive trees? _Ibid._, act iv, sc. 3 (77). (6) _Viola._ I bring no overture of war, no taxation of homage; I hold the Olive in my hand; my words are as full of peace as matter. _Twelfth Night_, act i, sc. 5 (224). (7) _Westmoreland._ There is not now a rebel's sword unsheath'd, But peace puts forth her Olive everywhere. _2nd Henry IV_, act iv, sc. 4 (86). (8) And peace proclaims Olives of endless age. _Sonnet_ cvii.