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3 This vegetable figures conspicuously in the scene of the quarrel between Fluellen and Pistol.1 It is also mentioned in the same play on two other occasions : Pistol . “ Tell him I'll knock his leek about his pate Upon Saint Davy's day ...
3 This vegetable figures conspicuously in the scene of the quarrel between Fluellen and Pistol.1 It is also mentioned in the same play on two other occasions : Pistol . “ Tell him I'll knock his leek about his pate Upon Saint Davy's day ...
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Potatoes figure largely in modern gardens , but in Shakespeare's day they were rarities , such rarities in fact that in Richard Gardiner's Profitable ... Almost every known type of gatherer and dealer in simples figures in the plays .
Potatoes figure largely in modern gardens , but in Shakespeare's day they were rarities , such rarities in fact that in Richard Gardiner's Profitable ... Almost every known type of gatherer and dealer in simples figures in the plays .
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It is no matter : Enjoy the honey - heavy dew of slumber : Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies , Which busy care draws in the brains of men ; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound . ” 1 In a lovely passage in The Tempest , Ceres addresses ...
It is no matter : Enjoy the honey - heavy dew of slumber : Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies , Which busy care draws in the brains of men ; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound . ” 1 In a lovely passage in The Tempest , Ceres addresses ...
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| Title | Shakespeare's Wild Flowers: Fairy Lore, Gardens, Herbs, Gatherers of Simples and Bee Lore |
| Author | Eleanour Sinclair Rohde |
| Publisher | Medici society, Limited, 1935 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 235 pages |
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