Shakespeare's Wild Flowers: Fairy Lore, Gardens, Herbs, Gatherers of Simples and Bee Lore |
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In Shakespeare's day daffodils were favourite flowers for chaplets , and he refers to this fact in The Two Noble Kinsmen : “ I'll bring a bevy , A hundred black - eye'd maids that love as ...
In Shakespeare's day daffodils were favourite flowers for chaplets , and he refers to this fact in The Two Noble Kinsmen : “ I'll bring a bevy , A hundred black - eye'd maids that love as ...
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1 Nor must we forget the references to the delightful garden needlework of the period , an art in which every girl “ of noble race was trained : Gower . . and with her needle composes Nature's own shapes , of bud , bird , branch or ...
1 Nor must we forget the references to the delightful garden needlework of the period , an art in which every girl “ of noble race was trained : Gower . . and with her needle composes Nature's own shapes , of bud , bird , branch or ...
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Oxlips grew on Titania's bank and the flowers figure also in the song in the Two Noble Kinsmen :Oxlips in their cradles growing , Marigolds on death - beds blowing , Larks - heels trim . ” 2 Marigolds have been favourites for centuries ...
Oxlips grew on Titania's bank and the flowers figure also in the song in the Two Noble Kinsmen :Oxlips in their cradles growing , Marigolds on death - beds blowing , Larks - heels trim . ” 2 Marigolds have been favourites for centuries ...
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Act ii Adonis amongst apple associated beauty believed centuries colour 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 hand hath heart 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 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 Third thorns thou tree violets weeds wild Winter's Winter's Tale Wives of Windsor
Bibliographic information
| 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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