Shakespeare's Wild Flowers: Fairy Lore, Gardens, Herbs, Gatherers of Simples and Bee Lore |
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... Midsummer Night's Dream , speaks of the " nodding violet " , - " where oxlips and the nodding violet grows . " 2 The violet does not nod its head in the modern sense of the word . " Nodding " here signifies the bending downwards of the ...
... Midsummer Night's Dream , speaks of the " nodding violet " , - " where oxlips and the nodding violet grows . " 2 The violet does not nod its head in the modern sense of the word . " Nodding " here signifies the bending downwards of the ...
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... Midsummer Night's Dream the hawthorn is again associated with shepherds Helena . " Your tongue's sweet air Moe tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear , When wheat is green , when hawthorn buds appear . " " 3 And it was a " hawthorn brake ...
... Midsummer Night's Dream the hawthorn is again associated with shepherds Helena . " Your tongue's sweet air Moe tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear , When wheat is green , when hawthorn buds appear . " " 3 And it was a " hawthorn brake ...
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... Midsummer Night's Dream , is called eglantine . Arviragus . " With fairest flowers While summer lasts , and I live here , Fidele , I'll sweeten thy sad grave : thou shalt not lack The flower that's like thy face • no , nor The leaf of ...
... Midsummer Night's Dream , is called eglantine . Arviragus . " With fairest flowers While summer lasts , and I live here , Fidele , I'll sweeten thy sad grave : thou shalt not lack The flower that's like thy face • no , nor The leaf of ...
Common terms and phrases
Act iv Adonis amongst apple associated beauty centuries colour common commonly compared Coriolanus crown Cymbeline delight describes doth Duke Earl Elizabethan Ends eyes fair fairies Fifth figures flowers frequently fruit garden give green grow grown Hamlet hath Henry the Fourth Henry the Sixth herbs honey Ibid John King Henry King Richard known ladies leaves lily live look lord Love's Labour's Lost Measure mentioned Merry Wives Midsummer Night's Dream nature never noble noted orchard Othello pale Parkinson passage pear plant plantain play probably Queen references Romeo and Juliet root rose rosemary rush says Scene scent Second Shakespeare Shakespeare mentions smell Sonnet summer sweet Tempest thee thorns thou tree violets weeds wild Winter's Winter's Tale Wives of Windsor young