Shakespeare's Wild Flowers: Fairy Lore, Gardens, Herbs, Gatherers of Simples and Bee Lore |
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... fairies is merely charming folk - lore , but by the audiences of Shakespeare's day it was undoubtedly regarded as solid fact . If these islands in Elizabethan times were almost as sparsely populated as in medieval days , at least in ...
... fairies is merely charming folk - lore , but by the audiences of Shakespeare's day it was undoubtedly regarded as solid fact . If these islands in Elizabethan times were almost as sparsely populated as in medieval days , at least in ...
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... fairies as one who has been familiar with them and their ways . from childhood . And even in these prosiac days there are still countless folk who believe in fairies and not a few assert that they have seen them . But who has seen or ...
... fairies as one who has been familiar with them and their ways . from childhood . And even in these prosiac days there are still countless folk who believe in fairies and not a few assert that they have seen them . But who has seen or ...
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... fairies we associate with flowers and everything that is lovely . " Fairies use flowers for their charactery " and Shakespeare's fairies are indissolubly associated with flowers . 8 The fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream are genuinely ...
... fairies we associate with flowers and everything that is lovely . " Fairies use flowers for their charactery " and Shakespeare's fairies are indissolubly associated with flowers . 8 The fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream are genuinely ...
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