The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Part 108

FOOTNOTES:

[318:1] Yet Homer considered it to be indigenous in Sicily--Odyss: ix, 109--and Cicero, perhaps on the authority of Homer, says the same: "Insula Cereris . . . ubi primum fruges inventae esse dic.u.n.tur."--_In Verrem_, v, 38.

WILLOW.

(1) _Viola._

Make me a Willow cabin at your gate.

_Twelfth Night_, act i, sc. 5 (287).

(2) _Bened.i.c.k._

Come, will you go with me?

_Claudio._

Whither?

_Bened.i.c.k._

Even to the next Willow, about your own business.

_Much Ado About Nothing_, act ii, sc. 1 (192).

_Bened.i.c.k._

I offered him my company to a Willow tree, either to make him a garland, as being forsaken, or to bind him up a rod, as being worthy to be whipped.

_Ibid._ (223).

(3) _Nathaniel._

These thoughts to me were Oaks, to thee like Osiers bow'd.

_Love's Labour's Lost_, act iv, sc. 2 (112).

(4) _Lorenzo._

In such a night Stood Dido, with a Willow in her hand, Upon the wild sea-banks.

_Merchant of Venice_, act v, sc. 1 (9).

(5) _Bona._

Tell him, in hope he'll prove a widower shortly, I'll wear the Willow garland for his sake.

_3d Henry VI_, act iii, sc. 3 (227).

_Post._

[The same words repeated.]

_Ibid._, act iv, sc. 1 (99).

(6) _Queen._

There is a Willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his h.o.a.r leaves in the gla.s.sy stream.

There on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke.

_Hamlet_, act iv, sc. 7 (167).

(7) _Desdemona_ (singing)--

The poor soul sat sighing by a Sycamore tree.

Sing all a green Willow; Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee, Sing Willow, Willow, Willow.

The fresh streams ran by her, and murmur'd her moans; Sing Willow, Willow, Willow.

Her salt tears fell from her and soften'd the stones, Sing Willow, Willow, Willow.

Sing all a green Willow must be my garland.

_Oth.e.l.lo_, act iv, sc. 3 (41).

(8) _Emilia._

I will play the swan, And die in music. [_Singing_] Willow, Willow, Willow.

_Ibid._, act v, sc. 2 (247).

(9) _Wooer._

Then she sang Nothing but Willow, Willow, Willow.

_Two n.o.ble Kinsmen_, act iv, sc. 1 (100).