Shakespeare's Wild Flowers: Fairy Lore, Gardens, Herbs, Gatherers of Simples and Bee Lore |
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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 .
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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In the scene in the Duke of York's garden in King Richard the Second , one of the ladies in waiting suggests a game of bowls to distract the Queen from her anxiety : Queen . “ What sport shall we devise here in this garden , To drive ...
In the scene in the Duke of York's garden in King Richard the Second , one of the ladies in waiting suggests a game of bowls to distract the Queen from her anxiety : Queen . “ What sport shall we devise here in this garden , To drive ...
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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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