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
_Titus Andronicus_, act ii, sc. 3 (123).
(15) _Marcus._
O, let me teach you how to knit again
This scattered Corn into one mutual sheaf.
_Ibid._, act v, sc. 3 (70).
(16) _Pericles._
Our ships are stored with Corn to make your needy bread.
_Pericles_, act i, sc. 4 (95).
(17) _Cleon._
Your grace that fed my country with your Corn.
_Ibid._, act iii, sc. 3 (18).
(18) _Menenius._
For Corn at their own rates.
_Coriolanus_, act i, sc. 1 (193).
_Marcus._
The gods sent not Corn for the rich men only.
_Ibid._ (211).
_Marcus._
The Volsces have much Corn.
_Ibid._ (253).
_Citizen._
We stood up about the Corn.
_Ibid._, act ii, sc. 3 (16).
_Brutus._
Corn was given them gratis.
_Ibid._, act iii, sc. 1 (43).
_Coriolanus._
Tell me of Corn!
_Ibid._ (61).
The Corn of the storehouse gratis.
_Ibid._ (125).
The Corn was not our recompense.
_Ibid._ (120).
This kind of service
Did not deserve Corn gratis.
_Coriolanus_, act iii, sc. 1 (124).
(19) _Cranmer._
I am right glad to catch this good occasion
Most thoroughly to be winnow'd, where my chaff
And Corn shall fly asunder.
_Henry VIII_, act v, sc. 1 (110).
(20) _Cranmer._
Her foes shake like a field of beaten Corn
And hang their heads with sorrow.
_Ibid._, act v, sc. 4 (32).
(21) _K. Richard._
We'll make foul weather with despised tears;
Our sighs and they shall lodge the summer Corn.
_Richard II_, act iii, sc. 3 (161).
(22) _Arcite._
And run
Swifter then winde upon a field of Corne
(Curling the wealthy eares) never flew.
_Two Noble Kinsmen_, act ii, sc. 3 (91).
(23)
As Corn o'ergrown by weeds, so heedful fear
Is almost choked by unresisted lust.
_Lucrece_ (281).
I have made these quotations as short as possible. They could not be
omitted, but they require no comment.
COWSLIP.
(1) _Burgundy._
The even mead that erst brought sweetly forth
The freckled Cowslip, Burnet, and green Clover.
_Henry V_, act v, sc. 2 (48).
(2) _Queen._
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