CEDAR

PROSPERO

And by the spurs pluck’d up

The pine and CEDAR.

—Tempest [Act V, sc. 1]

WARWICK

As on a mountain top the CEDAR shows,

That keeps his leaves in spite of any storm.

—Henry IV, Pt. 2 [Act V, sc. 1]

WARWICK

Thus yields the CEDAR to the axe’s edge,

Whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle,

Under whose shade the ramping lion slept,

Whose top-branch o’erpeered Jove’s spreading tree,

And kept low shrubs from winter’s powerful wind.

—Henry IV, Pt. 3 [Act V, sc. 2]

CRANMER

He shall flourish,

And, like a mountain CEDAR,

reach his branches

To all the plains about him.

—Henry VIII [Act V, sc. 5]

POSTHUMUS

When from a stately CEDAR shall be lopped

branches, which, being dead many years,

shall after revive.

—Cymbeline [Act V, sc. 4]

SOOTHSAYER

The lofty CEDAR, royal Cymbeline,

Personates thee. Thy lopp’d branches

Thy two sons forth; who, by Belarius stol’n,

For many years thought dead are now revived,

To the majestic CEDAR join’d whose issue

Promises Britain peace and plenty.

—Cymbeline [Act V, sc. 5]

DUMAIN

As upright as the CEDAR.

—Love’s Labour’s Lost [Act IV, sc. 3]

GLOUCESTER

But I was born so high,

Our aery buildeth in the CEDAR’S top,

And dallies with the wind and scorns the sun.

—Richard III [Act I, sc. 3]

CORIOLANUS

Let the mutinous winds

Strike the proud CEDARS

’gainst the fiery sun.

—Coriolanus [Act V, sc. 3]

TITUS

Marcus, we are but shrubs, no CEDARS we.

—Titus Andronicus [Act IV, sc. 3]

JAILER’S DAUGHTER

I have sent him where a CEDAR,

Higher than all the rest, spreads like a plane

Fast by a brook.

—Two Noble Kinsmen [Act II, sc. 6]

The sun ariseth in his majesty;

Who doth the world so gloriously behold

That CEDAR-tops and hills seem burnished

by gold.

—Venus and Adonis

The CEDAR stoops not to the base shrub’s foot,

But low shrubs wither at the CEDAR’s root.

—Lucrece