OLIVE

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CLARENCE

To whom the heavens in thy nativity

Adjudged an OLIVE branch.

—Henry VI, Pt. 3 [Act IV, sc. 6]

ALCIBIADES

Bring me into your city,

And I will use the OLIVE

with my sword.

—Timon of Athens [Act V, sc. 4]

CÆSAR

Prove this a prosperous day,

the three-nook’d world

Shall bear the OLIVE freely.

—Antony and Cleopatra [Act IV, sc. 6]

ROSALIND

If you will know my house

’Tis at the tuft of OLIVES

here hard by.

—As You Like It [Act III, sc. 5]

OLIVER

Where, in the purlieus of this forest stands

A sheepcote fenced about with OLIVE trees?

—As You Like It [Act III, sc. 3]

VIOLA

I bring no overture of war,

no taxation of homage;

I hold the OLIVE in my hand;

my words are as full of peace

as matter.

—Twelfth Night [Act I, sc. 5]

WESTMORELAND

Peace puts forth her OLIVE everywhere.

—Henry IV, Pt. 2 [Act IV, sc. 4]

And peace proclaims OLIVES of endless age.

—Sonnet CVII