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"Their lips were four red roses on a stalk,
Which in their summer beauty kissed each other"
Richard III., Act: iv. Sc. 3
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"Enter OPHELIA,
fantastically dressed with straws and flowers."
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"There's rosemary,
that's for remembrance;
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—and there is pansies,
that's for thoughts."
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"There's fennel for you,
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and columbines:
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—there's rue for you; and here's some for me:
—we may call it, herb-grace o' Sundays:—
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—There's a daisy:—"
Hamlet. Act. IV. Sc. VI.
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"I know a bank where the
wild thyme blows,—
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Quite over-canopied with luscious
woodbine,
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"With sweet
musk roses,
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and with
eglantine."
Midsummer Night's
Dream, Act ii., Sc. 1
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"CERES, most bounteous lady, thy rich lees
Of wheat, rye, barley."
Tempest, Act iv, Sc. 1.
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"Allons! allons! sowed cockle reap'd no corn."
Love's Labour's Lost, Act iv. Sc. 3.
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"The azured harebell, like thy veins."
Cymbeline, Act iv., Sc. 2.
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"Larksheels trim"
Two Noble Kinsmen.
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"Get you some of this distilled Carduus Benedictus
and lay it to your heart;—"
"Why Benedictus? You have some moral in this
Benedictus"
"Moral?
No, by my
troth. I have no
moral meaning:
I meant, plain
Holy thistle"
Much Ado
about Nothing,
Act iii., Sc. 4.
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"The female ivy so
Enrings the barky fingers of the elm"
Midsummer Night's Dream.