Shakespeare's Wild Flowers: Fairy Lore, Gardens, Herbs, Gatherers of Simples and Bee Lore |
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... flowers are a pale lavender , but to those of us who are country folk Shakespeare's phrase rings true . For when their dainty flowers grow in thousands , the meadows seem agleam with them and in the spring sunlight they look as ...
... flowers are a pale lavender , but to those of us who are country folk Shakespeare's phrase rings true . For when their dainty flowers grow in thousands , the meadows seem agleam with them and in the spring sunlight they look as ...
Page 124
... 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 subject of the first ...
... 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 subject of the first ...
Page 128
... flowers , even daisies ) in their pockets to divine whether their love affairs would prosper . If the flower remained fresh it was supposed to augur good success , if it faded , ill success . We have Gerard's authority for it that the ...
... flowers , even daisies ) in their pockets to divine whether their love affairs would prosper . If the flower remained fresh it was supposed to augur good success , if it faded , ill success . We have Gerard's authority for it that the ...
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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