PLANTAIN

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COSTARD

O sir, PLANTAIN, a plain PLANTAIN!

No l’envoy, no l’envoy; no salve, sir,

but a PLANTAIN.

—Love’s Labour’s Lost [Act III, sc. 1]

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MOTH

By saying that a costard

was broken in a shin.

Then call’d you for the l’envoy?

COSTARD

True, and I for a

PLANTAIN.

—Love’s Labour’s Lost [Act III, sc. 1]

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ROMEO

Your PLANTAN-leafe is excellent for that.

BENVOLIO

For what, I pray thee?

ROMEO

For your broken shin.

—Romeo and Juliet [Act I, sc. 2]

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PALAMON

These poor slight sores

Need not a PLANTAIN.

—Two Noble Kinsmen [Act I, sc. 2]