REED

SECOND SERVANT

I had as lief have a REED

that will do me no service . . .

—Antony and Cleopatra [Act II, sc. 7]

ARIEL

His tears run down his beard, like winter’s drops

From eaves of REEDS.

—Tempest [Act V, sc. 1]

ARIEL

With hair up-staring—

then like REEDS, not hair.

—Tempest [Act I, sc. 2]

HOTSPUR

Swift Severn’s flood;

Who then, affrighted with their bloody looks,

Ran fearfully among the trembling REEDS.

—Henry IV, Pt. I [Act 1, sc. 3]

WOOER

From the far shore—

thick set with REEDS and sedges . . .

I heard a voice, . . . yet perceived not

Who made the sound, the rushes and the REEDS

Had so encompassed it.

—Two Noble Kinsmen [Act IV, sc. 1]

PORTIA

And speak between the change of man and boy

With a REED voice.

—Merchant of Venice [Act III, sc. 4]

ARVIRAGUS

Fear no more the frown o’ the great,

Thou art past the tyrant’s stroke;

Care no more to clothe and eat;

To thee the REED is as the oak . . .

—Cymbeline [Act IV, sc. 2]

To Simois’ REEDY banks the red blood ran.

—Lucrece