MANDRAKE/MANDRAGORA

CLEOPATRA

Give me to drink MANDRAGORA.

CHARMIAN

Why, madam?

CLEOPATRA

That I might sleep out this great gap of time

My Antony is away.

—Antony and Cleopatra [Act I, sc. 5]

IAGO

Not Poppy, nor MANDRAGORA,

Nor all the drowsy syrups in the world

Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep

Which thou owdest yesterday.

—Othello [Act III, sc. 3]

JULIET

And shrieks like MANDRAKES’

torn out of the earth

That living mortals, hearing them, run mad.

—Romeo and Juliet [Act IV, sc. 3]

FALSTAFF

Thou whoreson MANDRAKE,

thou art fitter to be worn

in my cap than to wait at my heels.

—Henry IV, Pt. 2 [Act I, sc. 2]

FALSTAFF

. . . the very genius of famine; yet lecherous

as a monkey, and the whores called him

MANDRAKE: a’ came ever in the rearward of the

fashion, and sung those tunes to the overscutched

huswives that he heard the carmen whistle, and

swear they were his fancies or his good-nights.

—Henry IV, Pt. 2 [Act III, sc. 2]

SUFFOLK

Would curses kill,

as doth the MANDRAKE’S groan.

—Henry VI, Pt. 2 [Act III, sc. 2]