CHERRY

HELENA

So we grew together,

Like to a DOUBLE CHERRY, seeming parted,

But yet a union in partition;

Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.

—A Midsummer Night’s Dream [Act III, sc. 2]

OLD LADY

’Tis as like you

As CHERRY is to CHERRY.

—Henry VIII [Act V, sc. 1]

FIRST QUEEN

Oh, when

Her twinning CHERRIES

shall their sweetness fall

Upon thy tasteful lips . . .

—Two Noble Kinsmen [Act I, sc. 1]

DEMETRIUS

O, how ripe in show

Thy lips, those kissing CHERRIES,

tempting grow!

—A Midsummer Night’s Dream [Act III, sc. 2]

THISBE

My CHERRY lips have often kiss’d thy stones,

Thy stones with lime and hair knit up in thee.

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

GLOUCESTER

We say that Shore’s wife hath a pretty foot,

A CHERRY lip, a bonny eye,

a passing pleasing tongue.

—Richard III [Act I, sc. 1]

THISBE

These my lips

This CHERRY nose,

These yellow cowslip cheeks,

Are gone, are gone . . .

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

CONSTANCE

Give it a plum, a CHERRY, and a fig.

—King John [Act II, sc. 1]

WOOER

I’ll bring a bevy,

A hundred black-eyed maids that love as I do,

With chaplets on their heads of daffadillies,

With CHERRY lips and cheeks

of damask roses . . .

—Two Noble Kinsmen [Act IV, sc. 1]

DROMIO OF SYRACUSE

Some devils ask but the paring of one’s nail,

A rush, a hair, a drop of blood, a pin,

A nut, a CHERRY-STONE.

—Comedy of Errors [Act IV, sc. 3]

SIR TOBY BELCH

What, man! ’tis not for

gravity to play at CHERRY-PIT with Satan:

hang him, foul collier!

—Twelfth Night [Act III, sc. 4]

GOWER

She with her needle composes

Nature’s own shape of bud, bird, branch, or berry;

That even her art sisters, natural roses,

Her inkle, silk, twin with the rubied CHERRY.

—Pericles [Act IV, sc. 6]

When he was by, the birds such pleasure took,

That some would sing, some other in their bills

Would bring him mulberries

and ripe-red CHERRIES.

He fed them with his sight, they him with berries.

—Venus and Adonis