BAY/LAUREL

CAPTAIN

’Tis thought the King is dead; we will not stay.

The BAY-TREES in our country

are all wither’d.

—Richard II [Act II, sc. 4]

BAWD

Marry come up, my dish of chastity

with rosemary and BAYS!

—Pericles [Act IV, sc. 6]

PROLOGUE

O, fan

From me the witless chaff of such a writer

That blasts my BAYS

and my famed works makes lighter.

—Two Noble Kinsmen [Prologue 1]

THE VISION

Enter, solemnly tripping one after another,

six personages,

clad in white robes,

wearing on their heads garlands of BAYS,

and golden vizards on their faces,

branches of BAYS or palms in their hands.

—Henry VIII [Act IV, sc. 2]

CLARENCE

To whom the heav’ns in thy nativity

adjudged an olive branch

and a LAUREL crown

As likely to be blest in peace and war.

—Henry VI, Pt. 3 [Act IV, sc. 6]

TITUS

Cometh Andronicus bound

with LAUREL boughs.

—Titus Andronicus [Act I, sc. 1]

CLEOPATRA

Upon your sword

sit LAUREL victory and smooth success

bestrewed before your feet.

—Antony and Cleopatra [Act I, sc. 3]

ULYSSES

Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres,

LAURELS.

—Troilus and Cressida [Act I, sc. 3]