Shakespeare's Wild Flowers: Fairy Lore, Gardens, Herbs, Gatherers of Simples and Bee Lore |
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... commonly call harebell nowadays is Campanula rotundifolia , but in Shakespeare's day hyacinths were commonly called harebells . Gerard calls wild hyacinths " the blew Hare - bell or English Jacinth ... they floure from the beginning of ...
... commonly call harebell nowadays is Campanula rotundifolia , but in Shakespeare's day hyacinths were commonly called harebells . Gerard calls wild hyacinths " the blew Hare - bell or English Jacinth ... they floure from the beginning of ...
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... commonly called Bee- flowers or winter Gilly - flowers because they will grow ( though amongst stones ) and abide the strongest frost and drought , continually green and flowering even in winter , and have a pleasant smell and are ...
... commonly called Bee- flowers or winter Gilly - flowers because they will grow ( though amongst stones ) and abide the strongest frost and drought , continually green and flowering even in winter , and have a pleasant smell and are ...
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... commonly used for medicinal purposes throughout the Middle Ages . Edmund Crouchback , Earl of Lancaster , son of ... commonly grown , and being still used for medicinal purposes it was 1 As You Like It . Act iii , Scene 5 . commonly ...
... commonly used for medicinal purposes throughout the Middle Ages . Edmund Crouchback , Earl of Lancaster , son of ... commonly grown , and being still used for medicinal purposes it was 1 As You Like It . Act iii , Scene 5 . commonly ...
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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