HEMLOCK

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BURGUNDY

Her fallow leas

The darnel, HEMLOCK,

and rank fumitory

Doth root upon.

—Henry V [Act V, sc. 2]

THIRD WITCH

Root of HEMLOCK digg’d i’ the dark.

—Macbeth [Act IV, sc. 2]

CORDELIA

Crown’d with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds,

With burdocks, HEMLOCK,

nettles, cuckoo-flowers.

—King Lear [Act IV, sc. 4]