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
The Cork tree is a necessary element in all botanic gardens, but as an
ornamental tree it is not sufficiently distinct from the Ilex. Though a
native of the South of Europe it is hardy in England.
CORN.
(1) _Gonzalo._
No use of metal, Corn, or wine, or oil.
_Tempest_, act ii, sc. 1 (154).
(2) _Duke._
Our Corn's to reap, for yet our tithe's to sow.
_Measure for Measure_, act iv, sc. 1 (76).
(3) _Titania._
Playing on pipes of Corn, (67)
* * * * *
The green Corn
Hath rotted ere his youth attained a beard.
_Midsummer Night's Dream_, act ii, sc. 1 (94).
(4) _K. Edward._
What valiant foemen, like to autumn's Corn,
Have we mowed down in tops of all their pride!
_3rd Henry VI_, act v, sc. 7 (3).
(5) _Pucelle._
Talk like the vulgar sort of market men
That come to gather money for their Corn.
_1st Henry VI_, act iii, sc. 2 (4).
Poor market folks that come to sell their Corn.
_Ibid._ (14).
Good morrow, gallants! want ye Corn for bread?
_Ibid._ (41).
_Burgundy._
I trust, ere long, to choke thee with thine own,
And make thee curse the harvest of that Corn.
_Ibid._ (46).
(6) _Duchess._
Why droops my lord like over-ripened Corn
Hanging the head at Ceres' plenteous load?
_2nd Henry VI_, act i, sc. 2. (1).
(7) _Warwick._
His well-proportioned beard made rough and ragged
Like to the summer's Corn by tempest lodged.
_2nd Henry VI_, act iii, sc. 2 (175).
(8) _Mowbray._
We shall be winnow'd with so rough a wind
That even our Corn shall seem as light as chaff.
_2nd Henry IV_, act iv, sc. 1 (194).
(9) _Macbeth._
Though bladed Corn be lodged and trees blown down.
_Macbeth_, act iv, sc. 1 (55).
(10) _Longaville._
He weeds the Corn, and still lets grow the weeding.
_Love's Labour's Lost_, act i, sc. 1 (96).
(11) _Biron._
Allons! allons! sowed Cockle reap'd no Corn.
_Ibid._, act iv, sc 3 (383).
(12) _Edgar._
Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepherd?
Thy sheep be in the Corn.
_King Lear_, act iii, sc. 6 (43).
(13) _Cordelia._
All the idle weeds that grow
In our sustaining Corn.
_Ibid._, act iv, sc. 4 (6).
(14) _Demetrius._
First thrash the Corn, then after burn the straw.
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