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

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.

"If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries"

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

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

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