Shakespeare's Wild Flowers: Fairy Lore, Gardens, Herbs, Gatherers of Simples and Bee Lore |
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... delight . ” 1 1 No botanist would describe lady - smocks ( Cardamine pratensis ) as " silver - white " for , strictly speaking , the flowers are a pale lavender , but to those of us who are country folk Shakespeare's phrase rings true ...
... delight . ” 1 1 No botanist would describe lady - smocks ( Cardamine pratensis ) as " silver - white " for , strictly speaking , the flowers are a pale lavender , but to those of us who are country folk Shakespeare's phrase rings true ...
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... delight into the task of waiting on Bottom and entertaining him . To " hop and gambol in his walks " to feed him with fruits , and to steal honeybags from the humble bees are enchanting pastimes for them . Like children they delight in ...
... delight into the task of waiting on Bottom and entertaining him . To " hop and gambol in his walks " to feed him with fruits , and to steal honeybags from the humble bees are enchanting pastimes for them . Like children they delight in ...
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... delightful chapter on the Joys of a Garden and Ralph Austen's on the Joys of an Orchard ? We are essentially a conservative race and our British ancestors probably took as great delight in their gardens as we do now . Recent discoveries ...
... delightful chapter on the Joys of a Garden and Ralph Austen's on the Joys of an Orchard ? We are essentially a conservative race and our British ancestors probably took as great delight in their gardens as we do now . Recent discoveries ...
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