*** BRIER ***
"When brier shall have leaves as well as thorns." Alls Well. iv, 4, 32.
*** BURNET ***
"The freckled cowslip, burnet & green clover."
*** CARNATION ***
"How much carnation ribbon may a man buy for a remuneration." L.L. Lost. iii. 1, 146.
*** CHAMOMILE ***
"The more it is trodden on, the faster it grows." 1, Hen. IV. ii, 4, 441.
*** CLOVER ***
."The freckled cowslip, burnet &. green clover" Hen V, 2, 49.
*** COLUMBINE ***
"I am that flower, that mint, that Columbine." L.L. Lost, v, 2, 661. *** COWSLIPS (See Primrose) ***
"Clover, the freckled cowslip, barnet & green clover." Hen. V. v, 2, 49. *** CROW FLOWER ***
There with fantastic garlands did she come of crow flowers, nettles, daisies, & long purples.
*** CUCKOO FLOWER ***
'Hemlock, Cuckoo Flower, Darnel, and all the idle weeds." Lear iv. 4.. 4.
*** DAISIES ***
'Daisies pied and violets blue, and lady smock all silver white." L.L.Lost v, 2, 904. '** DAFFODIL ***
'When daffodils begin to peer." W. Tale iv, 3, 1.
*** DARNEL ***
"The Darnel, Hemlock & rank Fumitory doth root upon." Hen V, v. 2, 45.
*** DOCK ***
"HeI'd sow 't with nettle seed or docks or mallows." Tempest ii, 1, 144.
*** ERYNGIUMS ***
"Hail kissing comfits, and snow Eringoes." Mer Wives Win.
*** FUMITORY ***
"The darnel Hemlock, and rank Fumitory doth root upon." Hen V, v, 2. 45.
*** HEMLOCK ***
"The Darnel , Hemlock, and rank Fumitory doth root upon." Hen V. v, 2, 45. *** IRIS ***
"Whats the matter, that this distempered messenger of wet, the many coloured Iris rounds thine eye." Alls Well i. 3, 153.
*** KNOT-GRASS ***
"You ninimus of hindering knot-grass made, you bead you acorn." M.S. Dream, iii, 2, 330.
*** LILY ***
"She is as White as a Lily, and as small as a wand." 1. G. Of Err. ii, 3, 22. *** LADY SMOCK ***
"Daisies pied and violes blue: and lady smock all silver white." L.L.Lost. v, 2, 904.
*** LONG PURPLES ***
"Daises & long purples that liberal sheperds give a crasser name."•Hamlet iv. 7, 170 *** MARIGOLDS ***
"The Marigold that goes to bed wi' the sun." W. Tale. iv. 1. 294. *** MALLOW ***
"Hel'd sow't with nettle seeds, docks or mallows." Tempest ii, 1, 144.
*** MANDRAKE ***
"Thou whoresome Mandrake, thou art fitter to be worn in my cap than to wait at my heels." 2 Hen IV, i, 2, 17.
*** MANNA ***
"You drop Manna in the way of starved people."
Mer Of Venice, v, 1, 294.
*** MAY WEED ***
"Where lie my Maiden Weeds." T. Night, v, 1, 262
*** METHEGLIN. MALMSEY ***
"And if you grow so nice, Meytheglin, wort & Malmsey." L.L. Lost v, 2, 233.
*** MILDEWS ***
"Mildews the white wheat, and hurts, the poor creature of earth." Lear iii, 4, 123.
"Like a mildew ear, blasting his wholesome brother." Hamlet iii, 4, 64.
*** MISTLETOE ***
"O'ercome with moss £ baleful 1 Mistletoe." T. Andron ii, 3, 95.
*** MOSS ***
"It is dross, usurping ivy, brier or idle moss." Comm. Of Errors, ii, 2, 180. *** MOULD ***
"He lives upon moulduy stewed prunes & dried cakes." 2. Hen IV, ii, 4, 158. *** MUSHROOM ***
"Whose pastime is to make midnight mushrooms Tempest v, 1, 39.
*** NARCISSUS ***
"Had'st thou Narcissus in thy face, to me thou would'st appar most ugly." Ant & Cleo ii, 5. 96
*** NETTLES ***
"Which being spotted is goads, thorns, nettles." W. Tale i, 2, 329.
*** OXSLIPS ***
"Where Oxslips and. the nodding violet grows." M.N.Dream, ii, 1, 250.
*** PANSIES ***
"There is pansies, thats for thoughts." Hamlet, iv, 5, 176.
*** PIGNUT ***
"I'll pluck thee berries, and with my long nails dig thee Pignuts." Tempest.
*** PLANTAIN ***
"0 sir, plantain, a plain plantain no lieu vary, no Henvory; no salve sir but a Plantain." L.L.Lost. iii, I, 74.
*** PRIMROSES ***
"Pale Primroses that die unmarried." W.Tale. iv, 4, 122.
* * * RUSHES * * *
"Swims with fins of lead, and hews down Oaks with Rushes." Coriolanus. i, 1, 185. *** SAMPHIRE ***
'Half way down hangs one who gathers Samphire, dreadful 1 trade." King Lear.
*** SEDGES ***
"Alas poor hurt foul! Now he will creep into sedges." Much Ado. ii, 1, 210. *** SPEAR GRASS ***
"Yea and to tickle our noses with Spear Grass. 1, Hen. IV. ii, 4, 340. *** THISTLE ***
"There thou prickest her with a thistle." Much Ado iii, 4, 76.
*** VIOLETS ***
"Lying by the violet in the sun, do as the carrion does." M. For M. ii, 2, 166. *** WOODBINE : Honeysyckle ***
"Even now is couched in the Woodbine coueture. Much Ado. iii, 1, 30. *** WORMWOOD ***
"None wed the second but who kill'd the first. Wormwood, Wormwood" Hamlet, iii, 2, 191.
"It is usurping ivy, brier, or idle moss." Com. Of Err. ii, 2, 180.
"From off this brier pluck a white rose with me." 1, Hen. VI. ii. 4, 30.
"Most Lily white of hue of colour, like the red rose on triumphant brier." M.N.Dream, iii, 1, 96
"The fairest flowers of the season are our carnations." W. Tale, iv. 4, 82.
"A1 could never abide carnations twas a colour he never likes." Hen. V. ii, 3, 35.
"Theres fennel for you, and Columbines, theres none for you." Hamlet iv. 5, 180.
"The cherry nose, these yellow cowslip cheeks." M.N. Dream, v, 1, 338.
"The violets, cowslips and the primroses bear my closet." Cymbeline. i, 5, 83.
"Even mead that 'erst brought sweetly forth the freckled Cowslips." Hen. V. v, 2, 48.
'Daisies and long purples that liberal sheperds give a crasser name." Hamlet iv, 7, 170.
"Theres a daisy, I would give you some violets but they withered." Hamlet iv, 5, 184.
"There with fantastic garlands did she come of crow flowers nettles, daisies."
'Daffodils that come before the swallow does & takes the winds of March with beauty." W. Tale iv, 4, 118.
"Hemlock, Nettles, Cuckoo flowers. Darnel all the idle weeds." Lear iv, 4, 4.
"Nothing teems but hateful 1 docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs." Hen V, v, 2, 52.
"Hemlock, Nettles, Cuckoo flowers. Darnel, all the idle weeds." Lear iv, 4, 4.
"Nothing teems bur hateful 1 docks, rough thistles Kecksies burrs." Hen V, v, 2, 52
"He was the Ivy which had hid me princley trunk. Tempest i, 2, 86.
"It is dross, usurping Ivy, brier or idle moss." Com Of Err. ii , 2, 180.
"The female ivy so engs the barky fingers of the Elm." M.N. Dream iv, 1. 48.
"I have them, tis by the seaside browsing by the ivy." W. Tale iii, 3, 69.
"For whereso'er thou art in this worlds globe. I'll have an Iris that shall find thee out." 2 Hen VI, ii , 2, 407.
"Make him fall his crest that prouder than blue Iris bends." Troi & Cres. i, 3, 380..
"By the maidens honour, yet as pure as the unsullied Lilly." L.Lost. v, 2. 352.
"These lily lips, this cherry nose, these yellow cowslip cheeks." M.N. Dream v, 1, 337.
"Li Hies of all kinds, the flower-de-luce being one." W. Tale, iv, 4. 126.
"Of natures gifts thou mayst with Lillies boast." K. John, iii, 1, 53.
"A most unspotted Lily shall she pass to the ground." Hen VIII, v, 5, 62.
"Those Lily hands tremble like Aspen leaves." T. Andron. ii, 4, 44.
"As doth the honey dew upon a gthered Lily almost withered." T. Andron iii, 1, 113.
"How bravely thou becomest thy bed, fresh lily. Cymbeline. ii, 2, 15.
"0 sweetest fairest Lily, my brother wear thee not, the one half as when thou greust thyself.
"Go gove me swift transportance to those fields where I may wallow in Lilly beds." Troi & Cres iii, 2, 13.
"Most Lily white of hue." M.N. Dream iii, 1, 95
'Go prick thy face, and over red fear, thou Lily 1ivered boy." Macbeth v, 3, 15.
'A Lily 1ivered action talking knave." Lear i i, 2, 18.
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"There with fantastic garlnds did she come of crow flowers, nettles, daisies & long purples."
"The yellow blues, purple violets & marigolds." Pericles, iv, 1. 16.
"Purple violets &. Marigolds shall as a carpet hang upon the grave." Perciles. iv. 1. 16.
"Lecherous as a monkey, and the whores called him Mandrake." 2 Hen VI, iii, 2, 339.
"Would cures kill, as doth the Mandrake groan." 2 Hen VI, iii, 2, 310.
"&. shrieks like Mandrakes torn out of the earth." Rom & Jul iv, 2, 47.
"Yea, and furr'd moss besides when flowers are none." Cymbeline iv, 2, 228.
"Under the oak. whose boughs were moss'd with age." A. Y. L. It iv, 3, 105.
"These mossed trees, that have outlived the eagle." T. Of Athens, iv, 3, 223.
"Topples down steeples &. moss grown towers." 1. Hen IV, iii, 1, 33.
"Things that are mouldy lack use." 2, Hen IV, iii. 2, 119.
"Yield stinging nettles to mine enemies." Richard II, iii, 2, 18.
"The strawberries grow under the nettle." Hen V, i, 1, 60.
"I'll spring up his tears, an 'twere a nettle against May." Troi & Cres i, 2. 191.
"Look for thy reward among the nettles at the Elder tree." T. Andron ii, 3. 272.
"Hemlock. Cuckoo flowers. Darnel, nettle and all the idle weeds." Lear iv, 4, 4
"Scourged with rods, nettled and stung with Pismines." 1, Hen IV, i, 3, 240.
"Stamps as he were nettled, to hope alls for the best." 3 Hen VI, iii, 3, 169.
"Had I plantations of this idle my lord-Held sow't with nettle seed- or docks." Tempest ii, 1, 144.
"There with fantastic garlands did she come of crow flowers, nettles, daisies & long purples."
"Look pale as Primrose with blood drinking sighs." 2. Hen. VI. iii, 2. 63.
"That go the Primros way to the everlasting bonfire." Macbeth. ii, 3, 21.
"Himself, the Primrose, path of dalliane treads." Hamlet, ii, 3, 50.
"The violets cowslips, and the primroses bear my closet." Cymbeline. i, 5, 30.
"Thou shalt not lack the flower thats like thy face, pale Primrose." Cymbeline. iv, 2, 221.
"Where often you and I upon faint Primrose beds were want to lie." M.N. Dream, ii, 1, 215.
"Our gates, which yet seems shut, we have but pinn'd with rushes." Coriolanus. i, 4, 18.
"A rush will be a beam to hang thee on." K. John, iv, 3, 129.
"She bids you on the wanton rushes, lay you down, 1, Hen IV. iii, 1, 214.
"Rush candle, If you please to call it a rush candle, henceforth I vow it shall be so for me.' T. Of Shrew, iv, 5, 14.
"And Crytherea, all in Sedges hid." T. Of Shrew. Ind, 2, 53.
"Even as the waving sedges play with wind." T. Of Shrew. Ind, 2. 55.
"On the gentle Severns Sedgy bank." 1 Hen. IV. i, 3, 98.
"Kill me a red hipped bumble bee on the top of a thistle." M.N. Dream, iv, 1, 12
"Nothing teems but hateful 1 docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs." Hen. V, v, 2, 52.
"Daisies pied and vilets blue, and lady smocks all silver white. L.L.Lost. v, 2, 904,
"Where oxslips and the nodding violet grows." M.N. Dream, ii, 1, 250.
"Like the sweet sound that breathes upon a bank of violets." T. Night, i, 1. 6.
"Violets dim, but sweeter than the lids of Junos eyes." W. Tale, iv, 4, 120.
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"To paint the lily, to throw a perfume on the violet." King John, iv, 2, 72.
"Welcome my son, who are the violets now that strew the green lap of the new come spring." Richard II. v, 2, 46.
"The violet smells to him as it doth to me." Hen. V. iv, 1, 106.
"A violet in the youth of princy nature, forward, not permanent." Hamlet, i, 3, 7.
"Theres a daisy: I would give you some violets but they withered." Hamlet, i. 3, 7. & v, 1, 263
"From her fair and polluted flesh many violets spring!" Hamlet, v, 1, 263.
"The violets, cowslips and the primroses bear my closet." Cymbeline. i, 5, 83.
"They are as gentle as Zephyrs blowing below the violet." Cymbeline. iv, 2, 172.
"Purple violets and marigolds shall as a carpet hang upon the grave." Perciles. iv, 1, 16.
"Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine." M.N. Dream, ii, 1, 251.
"So doth the Woodbine, the sweet honeysyckle gently entwist." M.N. Dream, iv, 1, 47.