CARDUUS BENEDICTUS

*Holy Thistle*

MARGARET

Get you some of this distilled CARDUUS

BENEDICTUS, and lay it to your heart;

it is the only thing for a qualm.

HERO

There thou prickest her with a THISTLE.

BEATRICE

BENEDICTUS! Why BENEDICTUS? You

have some moral in this

BENEDICTUS.

MARGARET

Moral! No, by my troth, I have

no moral meaning: I meant plain

HOLY THISTLE.

—Much Ado About Nothing [Act III, sc. 4]