HAWTHORN

*Hawthorn-buds* Brake*

Hawthorn-blossom*May Tree*

ROSALIND

There’s a man . . . hangs odes upon

HAWTHORNS and elegies on brambles.

—As Tou Like It [ActIII,sc.2]

PETER QUINCE

This green plot shall be our stage, this

HAWTHORN-BRAKE our tiring house.

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

PUCK

I’ll lead you about a round,

Through bog, through bush, through BRAKE,

through brier.

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

HELENA

Your tongue’s sweet air,

More tuneable than lark to shepherd’s ear,

When wheat is green, when

HAWTHORN-BUDS appear.

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

FALSTAFF

I cannot cog and say thou art this and that,

like a many of these lisping HAWTHORN-BUDS

that come like women in men’s apparel.

—Merry Wives of Windsor [Act III, sc. 3]

HENRY VI

Gives not the HAWTHORN-BUSH

a sweeter shade

to shepherds looking on their silly sheep,

Than doth a rich embroider’d canopy

To kings that fear their subjects’ treachery?

O yes, it doth; a thousand-fold it doth.

—Henry VI, Pt. 3 [Act II, sc. 5]

EDGAR

Through the sharp HAWTHORN

blows the cold wind.

—King Lear [Act III, sc. 4]

ARCITE

Again betake you to yon HAWTHORN house.

—Two Noble Kinsmen [Act III, sc. 1]

Rough winds do shake the

darling BUDS OF MAY,

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.

—Sonnet XVIII

HAMLET

He took my father grossly, full of bread,

With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as

MAY.

—Hamlet [Act III, sc. 3]