Shakespeare's Wild Flowers: Fairy Lore, Gardens, Herbs, Gatherers of Simples and Bee Lore |
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And in Venus and Adonis : The thorny brambles and embracing bushes As fearful of him , part , through whom he rushes . ” We still use Falstaff's phrase " as plentiful as blackberries ” : “ If reasons were as plenty as blackberries I ...
And in Venus and Adonis : The thorny brambles and embracing bushes As fearful of him , part , through whom he rushes . ” We still use Falstaff's phrase " as plentiful as blackberries ” : “ If reasons were as plenty as blackberries I ...
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folk to this day to denote any thorny plants and as metaphors of troubles . Thus the Bastard in King John : “ I am amazed methinks ; and lose my way Among the thorns and dangers of this world . ” 1 Again Gloucester in King Henry the ...
folk to this day to denote any thorny plants and as metaphors of troubles . Thus the Bastard in King John : “ I am amazed methinks ; and lose my way Among the thorns and dangers of this world . ” 1 Again Gloucester in King Henry the ...
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The following are examples of passages in which thorns and briars stand for any thorny plants : King Edward . “ Brave followers , yonder stands the thorny wood . ” King Henry the Sixth . Part üii , Act v , Scene 4 . Fairy .
The following are examples of passages in which thorns and briars stand for any thorny plants : King Edward . “ Brave followers , yonder stands the thorny wood . ” King Henry the Sixth . Part üii , Act v , Scene 4 . Fairy .
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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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