IVY

TITANIA

The female IVY so

Enrings the barky fingers of the elm.

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

PROSPERO

That now he was

The IVY which had hid my princely trunk

And suck’d my verdure out on’t.

—Tempest [Act I, sc. 2]

ADRIANA

If aught possess thee from me,

it is dross,

Usurping IVY,

brier, or idle moss;

Who, all for want of pruning,

with intrusion

Infect thy sap and

live on thy confusion.

—Comedy of Errors [Act II, sc. 2]

SHEPHERD

They have scared away two of my best sheep,

which I fear the wolf will sooner find than the

master; if anywhere I have them ’tis by the

seaside browsing of IVY.

—Winter’s Tale [Act III, sc. 3]

PIRITHOUS

His head’s yellow,

Hard hair’d and curl’d,

thick twin’d like IVY tops,

Not to undo with thunder.

—Two Noble Kinsmen [Act IV, sc. 2]