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... amongst nettles and docks . Fumitory is mentioned twice , but to which species Shakespeare refers it is impossible to say . Rank fumiter " was amongst the weeds wherewith Lear when mad crowned himself : - 66 " Crown'd with rank fumiter ...
... amongst nettles and docks . Fumitory is mentioned twice , but to which species Shakespeare refers it is impossible to say . Rank fumiter " was amongst the weeds wherewith Lear when mad crowned himself : - 66 " Crown'd with rank fumiter ...
Page 124
... amongst Perdita's flowers . Yet this flower was of comparatively recent introduction in Shakespeare's time and Gerard speaks of it as a rare and strange plant . Parkinson chose the new spring flowering treasure from Persia for the ...
... amongst Perdita's flowers . Yet this flower was of comparatively recent introduction in Shakespeare's time and Gerard speaks of it as a rare and strange plant . Parkinson chose the new spring flowering treasure from Persia for the ...
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... amongst clothes . Shakespeare uses " wormwood " in the Biblical fashion as a simile of something intensely bitter . Hamlet , watching the players and knowing what the effect of the Player Queen's words must be on his mother , murmured ...
... amongst clothes . Shakespeare uses " wormwood " in the Biblical fashion as a simile of something intensely bitter . Hamlet , watching the players and knowing what the effect of the Player Queen's words must be on his mother , murmured ...
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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