_Comedy of Errors_, act iv, sc. 3 (72). (6) _Bastard._ A Rush will be a beam To hang thee on. _King John_, act iv, sc. 3 (129). (7) _1st Groom._ More Rushes, more Rushes. _2nd Henry IV_, act v, sc. 5 (1). (8) _Eros._ He's walking in the garden--thus; and spurns The Rush that lies before him. _Antony and Cleopatra_, act iii, sc. 5 (17). (9) _Othello._ Man but a Rush against Othello's breast, And he retires. _Othello_, act v, sc. 2 (270). (10) _Grumio._ Is supper ready, the house trimmed, Rushes strewed, cobwebs swept? _Taming of the Shrew_, act iv, sc. 1 (47). (11) _Katherine._ Be it moon or sun, or what you please, And if you please to call it a Rush-candle, Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me. _Ibid._, act iv, sc. 5 (13). (12) _Glendower._ She bids you on the wanton Rushes lay you down, And rest your gentle head upon her lap. _1st Henry IV_, act iii, sc. 1 (214). (13) _Marcius._ He that depends Upon your favours swims with fins of lead And hews down Oaks with Rushes. _Coriolanus_, act i, sc. 1 (183). (14) _Iachimo._ Our Tarquin thus Did softly press the Rushes. _Cymbeline_, act ii, sc. 2 (12). (15) _Senator._ Our gates Which yet seem shut, we have but pinn'd with Rushes! They'll open of themselves. _Coriolanus_, act i, sc. 4 (16). (16) And being lighted, by the light he spies Lucretia's glove, wherein her needle sticks; He takes it from the Rushes where it lies. _Lucrece_ (316). (17) _See_ REEDS, No. 7. (18) _Wooer._ Rings she made Of Rushes that grew by, and to 'em spoke The prettiest posies. _Two Noble Kinsmen_, act iv, sc. 1 (109). _See also_ FLAG, REED, _and_ BULRUSH. Like the Reed, the Rush often stands for any water-loving, grassy plant, and, like the Reed, it was the emblem of yielding weakness and of uselessness.[264:1] The three principal Rushes referred to by Shakespeare are the Common Rush (_Juncus communis_), the Bulrush (_Scirpus lacustris_), and the Sweet Rush (_Acorus calamus_).