MOSS

ADRIANA

If ought possess thee from me, it is dross,

Usurping ivy, brier, or idle MOSS.

—Comedy of Errors [Act II, sc. 2]

TAMORA

The trees, though summer,

yet forlorn and lean,

O’ercome with MOSS and baleful mistletoe.

—Titus Andronicus [Act II, sc. 3]

APEMANTUS

These MOSS’D trees,

That have outlived the eagle.

—Timon of Athens [Act IV, sc. 2]

HOTSPUR

Steeples and MOSS-GROWN towers.

—Henry IV, Pt. 1 [Act III, sc. 1]

OLIVER

Under an oak whose boughs

were MOSSED with age,

And high top bald with dry antiquity.

—As You Like It [Act IV, sc. 3]

ARVIRAGUS

. . . and furr’d MOSS besides,

when flowers are none,

To winter-ground thy corse.

—Cymbeline [Act IV, sc. 2]