The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Part 38

I am no great Nebuchadnezzar, sir, I have not much skill in Gra.s.s.

_All's Well that Ends Well_, act iv, sc. 5 (21).

(7) _Luciana._

If thou art changed to aught, 'tis to an a.s.s.

_Dromio of Syracuse._

 

'Tis true; she rides me, and I long for Gra.s.s.

_Comedy of Errors_, act ii, sc. 2 (201).

(8) _Bolingbroke._

Here we march Upon the Gra.s.sy carpet of the plain.

_Richard II_, act iii, sc. 3 (49).

(9) _King Richard._

And bedew Her pasture's Gra.s.s with faithful English blood.

_Ibid._ (100).

(10) _Ely._

Grew like the summer Gra.s.s, fastest by night, Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty.

_Henry V_, act i, sc. 1 (65).

(11) _King Henry._

Mowing like Gra.s.s Your fresh-fair virgins and your flowering infants.

_Ibid._, act iii, sc. 3 (13).

(12) _Grandpre._

And in their pale dull mouths the gimmal bit Lies foul with chew'd Gra.s.s, still and motionless.

_Henry V_, act iv, sc. 2 (49).

(13) _Suffolk._

Though standing naked on a mountain top Where biting cold would never let Gra.s.s grow.

_2nd Henry VI_, act iii, sc. 2 (336).

(14) _Cade._

All the realm shall be in common; and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go to Gra.s.s.

_Ibid._, act iv, sc. 2 (74).

(15) _Cade._

Wherefore on a brick wall have I climbed into this garden, to see if I can eat Gra.s.s or pick a Sallet another while, which is not amiss to cool a man's stomach this hot weather.

_Ibid._, act iv, sc. 10 (7).

(16) _Cade._

If I do not leave you all as dead as a door-nail, I pray G.o.d I may never eat Gra.s.s more.

_Ibid._ (42).

(17) _1st Bandit._

We cannot live on Gra.s.s, on berries, water, As beasts and birds and fishes.

_Timon of Athens_, act iv, sc. 3 (425).

(18) _Saturninus._

These tidings nip me, and I hang the head As Flowers with frost or Gra.s.s beat down with storms.

_t.i.tus Andronicus_, act iv, sc. 4 (70).

(19) _Hamlet._

Ay but, sir, "while the Gra.s.s grows"--the proverb is something musty.

_Hamlet_, act iii, sc. 2 (358).