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

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 64102 *** [Transcriber's Note: Inconsistent punctuation in the play citations has been retained as in the original.] [Illustration: Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden] To the Countess of Warwick, whose delightful Old English Garden at Easton Lodge suggested this book of fancies, it is now inscribed. [Illustration] _All Rights Reserved_ FLOWERS FROM SHAKESPEARE'S GARDEN: a Posy from the Plays, pictured by Walter Crane [Illustration] Cassell & Co: Ltd 1909 "O, Proserpina, For the flowers now, that, frighted, thou lett'st fall From Dis's wagon! [Illustration] daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; [Illustration] violets, dim But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes [Illustration] Or Cytherea's breath; [Illustration] pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phœbus in his strength, a malady Most incident to maids; [Illustration] bold oxlips, and [Illustration] The crown-imperial; [Illustration] lilies of all kinds, [Illustration] The flower-de-luce being one!" [Illustration] "—Here's flowers for you; [Illustration] Hot lavender, [Illustration] mints, [Illustration] savorie, marjoram; [Illustration] The marigold that goes to bed with the sun, And with him rises weeping;" Perdita. Winter's Tale Act: IV. Sc. III. [Illustration] "The fairest flowers o' the season Are our carnations," Perdita. Winter's Tale Act: IV. Sc. III. [Illustration] "She went to the garden for parsley" (Taming of the Shrew Act: IV. Sc. 4) [Illustration] "Their lips were four red roses on a stalk, Which in their summer beauty kissed each other" Richard III., Act: iv. Sc. 3 [Illustration] "Enter OPHELIA, fantastically dressed with straws and flowers." [Illustration] "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; [Illustration] —and there is pansies, that's for thoughts." [Illustration] "There's fennel for you, [Illustration] and columbines: [Illustration] —there's rue for you; and here's some for me: —we may call it, herb-grace o' Sundays:— [Illustration] —There's a daisy:—" Hamlet. Act. IV. Sc. VI. [Illustration] "I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,— [Illustration] Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, [Illustration] "With sweet musk roses, [Illustration] and with eglantine." Midsummer Night's Dream, Act ii., Sc. 1 [Illustration] "CERES, most bounteous lady, thy rich lees Of wheat, rye, barley." Tempest, Act iv, Sc. 1. [Illustration] "Allons! allons! sowed cockle reap'd no corn." Love's Labour's Lost, Act iv. Sc. 3. [Illustration] "The azured harebell, like thy veins." Cymbeline, Act iv., Sc. 2. [Illustration] "Larksheels trim" Two Noble Kinsmen. [Illustration] "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. [Illustration] "The female ivy so Enrings the barky fingers of the elm" Midsummer Night's Dream. Act V., Sc. 2 [Illustration] "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 [Illustration] "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. [Illustration] "If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries" I Henry IV., Act ii., Sc. 4 [Illustration] "Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly" As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 7. [Illustration] 'Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels.' Troilus & Cressida, Act i., Sc. 3 [Illustration] [Illustration: Finis] CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED, LITH. LONDON. *** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 64102 ***