Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden: A Posy from the Plays

[Transcriber's Note: Inconsistent punctuation in the play citations has
been retained as in the original.]




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  To the Countess of Warwick,
  whose delightful Old English
  Garden at Easton Lodge suggested
  this book of fancies, it is
  now inscribed.

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FLOWERS FROM SHAKESPEARE'S GARDEN:

a Posy from the Plays, pictured by Walter Crane

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    "O, Proserpina,
    For the flowers now, that, frighted, thou lett'st fall
    From Dis's wagon!

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                                        daffodils,
    That come before the swallow dares, and take
    The winds of March with beauty;

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                                    violets, dim
    But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes

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    Or Cytherea's breath;

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                                        pale primroses,
    That die unmarried, ere they can behold
    Bright Phœbus in his strength, a malady
    Most incident to maids;

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    bold oxlips, and

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    The crown-imperial;

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    lilies of all kinds,

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    The flower-de-luce being one!"

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    "—Here's flowers for you;

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    Hot lavender,

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    mints,

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    savorie, marjoram;

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    The marigold that goes to bed with the sun,
    And with him rises weeping;"

  Perdita.
  Winter's Tale
  Act: IV. Sc. III.

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                "The fairest flowers o' the season
    Are our carnations,"

  Perdita.
  Winter's Tale
  Act: IV. Sc. III.

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    "She went to the garden for parsley"

  (Taming of the Shrew
  Act: IV. Sc. 4)

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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.
  Act V., Sc. 2

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    "The strawberry grows underneath the nettle,
    And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best
    Neighboured by fruit of baser quality"

  Henry V.,
  Act I., Sc. 1

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    "Gives not the hawthorne-bush a sweeter shade
    To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep,
    Than doth a rich embroidered canopy
    To kings that fear their subjects' treachery?"

  3 Henry VI., Act ii., Sc. 5.

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    "If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries"

  I Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 4

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    "Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly"

  As You Like It,
  Act ii., Sc. 7.

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    'Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels.'

  Troilus & Cressida, Act i., Sc. 3

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