GRAPES

*Raisins* [see also Vines*]

TITANIA

Feed him with apricocks and dewberries,

With purple GRAPES, green figs,

and mulberries.

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

MENENIUS

The tartness of his face sours ripe GRAPES.

—Coriolanus [Act V, sc. 4]

SONG

Come, thou monarch of the VINE,

Plumpy Bacchus, with pink eyne!

In thy fats our cares be drown’d,

With thy GRAPES our hairs be crown’d.

—Antony and Cleopatra [Act II, sc. 7]

CLEOPATRA

Now no more

The juice of Egypt’s GRAPE shall moist this lip.

—Antony and Cleopatra [Act V, sc. 2]

TIMON

Go, suck the subtle blood o’ the GRAPE,

Till the high fever seethe your blood to froth.

—Timon of Athens [Act IV, sc. 3]

TOUCHSTONE

The heathen philosopher, when he had a desire

to eat a GRAPE, would open his lips when he

put it into his mouth; meaning thereby that

GRAPES were made to eat and lips to open.

—As You Like It [Act V, sc. 1]

LAFEU

There’s one GRAPE yet.

—All’s Well That Ends Well [Act II, sc. 1]

IAGO

Blessed fig’s end! the wine she drinks

is made of GRAPES.

—Othello [Act II, sc. 1]

LAFEU

O, will you eat no GRAPES, my royal fox?

Yes, but you will my noble GRAPES, an if

My royal fox could reach them.

—All’s Well That Ends Well [Act II, sc. 1]

POMPEY

. . .’twas in “The Bunch of GRAPES,”

where, indeed, you have a delight to sit.

—Measure for Measure [Act II, sc. 1]

PIRITHOUS

His complexion

Is, as a ripe GRAPE, ruddy.

—Two Noble Kinsmen [Act IV, sc. 2]

Even as poor birds,

deceived with painted GRAPES,

Do surfeit by the eye and pine the maw.

—Venus and Adonis

For one sweet GRAPE,

who will the VINE destroy?

—Lucrece

SHEPHERD’S SON/CLOWN

Four pound of prunes,

and as many of RAISINS O’ THE SUN.

—Winter’s Tale [Act IV, sc. 3]