Shakespeare's Wild Flowers: Fairy Lore, Gardens, Herbs, Gatherers of Simples and Bee Lore |
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Page 76
... Parkinson speaks of as “ the most anciently received " for making knots . Box , either as an edging or for making the designs of knot gardens , Shakespeare may not have seen , for Parkinson writes of it as a novelty and " only received ...
... Parkinson speaks of as “ the most anciently received " for making knots . Box , either as an edging or for making the designs of knot gardens , Shakespeare may not have seen , for Parkinson writes of it as a novelty and " only received ...
Page 106
... Parkinson in his Paradisus and probably the Incarnation Rose mentioned by Turner in his Herbal . R. alba was the rose of the House of York and it figures conspicuously in the scene of the quarrel between Plantagenet and Somerset in the ...
... Parkinson in his Paradisus and probably the Incarnation Rose mentioned by Turner in his Herbal . R. alba was the rose of the House of York and it figures conspicuously in the scene of the quarrel between Plantagenet and Somerset in the ...
Page 142
... Parkinson in his Paradisus says- " The Warden or Luke- wards Pear are of two sorts , both white and red , both great and small . The Spanish Warden is greater than either of both the former and better also .... The red Warden and the ...
... Parkinson in his Paradisus says- " The Warden or Luke- wards Pear are of two sorts , both white and red , both great and small . The Spanish Warden is greater than either of both the former and better also .... The red Warden and the ...
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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