Shakespeare's Wild Flowers: Fairy Lore, Gardens, Herbs, Gatherers of Simples and Bee Lore |
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... ash , birch , aspen , holly , mistletoe , ivy , box , honeysuckle , broom , gorse , bramble , dewberry , and bilberry . Oaks are frequently mentioned and every passage testifies how closely Shakespeare had observed this tree .
... ash , birch , aspen , holly , mistletoe , ivy , box , honeysuckle , broom , gorse , bramble , dewberry , and bilberry . Oaks are frequently mentioned and every passage testifies how closely Shakespeare had observed this tree .
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6 is one of the few indications Shakespeare gives of the size of his fairies . The willow , Spenser's “ willow worne of forlorne paramoures ” , Shakespeare mentions more frequently than any tree save the oak . Nearly all the references ...
6 is one of the few indications Shakespeare gives of the size of his fairies . The willow , Spenser's “ willow worne of forlorne paramoures ” , Shakespeare mentions more frequently than any tree save the oak . Nearly all the references ...
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These flowery meads frequently adjoined the summer pavilions used chiefly by the ladies of the household and probably the scene— “ Before the Princess's pavilion » in Love's Labour's Lost took place in a mead of this kind .
These flowery meads frequently adjoined the summer pavilions used chiefly by the ladies of the household and probably the scene— “ Before the Princess's pavilion » in Love's Labour's Lost took place in a mead of this kind .
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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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