WHEAT/VETCHES

*Stubble* [see also CORN]*

IRIS

Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas

Of WHEAT, rye, barley,

VETCHES, oats, and pease.

—Tempest [Act IV, sc. 1]

BASSANIO

His reasons are as two grains of WHEAT hid

in two bushels of CHAFF; you shall seek

all day ere you find them, and when you have

them, they are not worth the search.

—Merchant of Venice [Act I, sc. 1]

HAMLET

As peace should still

her WHEATEN garland wear.

—Hamlet [Act V, sc. 2]

DAVY

And again, sir,

shall we sow the headland

with WHEAT?

SHALLOW

With RED WHEAT, Davy.

—Henry IV, Pt. 2 [Act V, sc. 1]

POMPEY

To send measures of WHEAT to Rome.

—Antony and Cleopatra [Act II, sc. 6]

EDGAR

This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet. . . .

He mildews the WHITE WHEAT, and hurts

the poor creatures of earth.

—King Lear [Act III, sc. 4]

HELENA

More tuneable than lark to shepherd’s ear,

When WHEAT IS GREEN,

when hawthorn-buds appear.

—A Midsummer Night’s Dream [Act I, sc. 1]

PANDARUS

He that will have a cake out of the WHEAT,

must needs tarry the grinding.

—Troilus and Cressida [Act I, sc. 1]

THESEUS

Your WHEATEN wreathe

Was then nor threashed

nor blasted.

—Two Noble Kinsmen [Act I, sc. 1]

SICINIUS

To kindle

their dry STUBBLE;

and their blaze

Shall darken him

for ever.

—Coriolanus [Act II, sc. 1]

HOTSPUR

Came there a certain lord, neat,

and trimly dress’d,

Fresh as a bridegroom;

and his chin new reap’d

Show’d like a STUBBLE-land

at harvest-home . . .

—Henry IV, Pt. 1 [Act I, sc. 3]