CYPRESS

*Cyprus*

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SUFFOLK

Their sweetest shade

a grove of CYPRESS trees!

—Henry VI, Pt. 2 [Act III, sc. 2]

SONG [FESTE]

In sad CYPRESS let me be laid.

—Twelfth Night [Act II, sc. 4]

OLIVIA

To one of your receiving

Enough is shown; a CYPRESS, not a bosom,

Hides my heart.

—Twelfth Night [Act III, sc. 1]

AUTOLYCUS

Lawn as white as driven snow,

CYPRUS, black as e’er was crow . . .

—Winter’s Tale [Act IV, sc. 4]

AUFIDIUS

I am attended at the CYPRESS grove.

—Coriolanus [Act I, sc. 10]

GREMIO

In ivory coffers I have stuff’d my crowns,

In CYPRESS chests

are my arras counterpoints.

—Taming of the Shrew [Act II, sc. 1]