d since the time of its
introduction. In Shakespeare's time the name was applied to the "Yellow
Carrot" or Parsnep, as well as to the Red one. The name of Carrot comes
directly from its Latin or rather Greek name, Daucus Carota, but it
once had a prettier name. The Anglo-Saxons called it "bird's-nest," and
Gerard gives us the reason, and it is a reason that shows they were more
observant of the habits of plants than we generally give them credit
for: "The whole tuft (of flowers) is drawn together when the seed is
ripe, resembling a bird's nest; whereupon it hath been named of some
Bird's-nest."

CEDAR.

(1) _Prospero._

And by the spurs pluck'd up
The Pine and Cedar.

_Tempest_, act v, sc. 1 (47).

(2) _Dumain._

As upright as the Cedar.

_Love's Labour's Lost_, act iv, sc. 3 (89).

(3) _Warwick._

As on a mountain top the Cedar shows,
That keeps his leaves in spite of any storm.

_2nd Henry VI_, act v, sc. 1 (205).

(4) _Warwick._

Thus yields the Cedar to the axe's edge,
Whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle,
Under whose shade the ramping lion slept,
Whose top-branch o'erpeered Jove's spreading tree,
And kept low shrubs from winter's powerful wind.

_3rd Henry VI_, act v, sc. 2 (11).

(5) _Cranmer._

He shall flourish,
And, like a mountain Cedar, reach his branches
To all the plains about him.

_Henry VIII_, act v, sc. 5 (215).

(6) _Posthumus._

When from a stately Cedar shall be lopped branches, which,
being dead many years, shall after revive.

_Cymbeline_, act v, sc. 4 (140); and act v, sc. 5 (457).

(7) _Soothsayer._

The lofty Cedar, royal Cymbeline,
Personates thee. Thy lopp'd branches
. . . . . are now revived,
To the majestic Cedar join'd.

_Ibid._, act v, sc. 5 (453).

(8) _Gloucester._

But I was born so high,
Our aery buildeth in the Cedar's top,
And dallies with the wind and scorns the sun.

_Richard III_, act i, sc. 3 (263).

(9) _Coriolanus._

Let the mutinous winds
Strike the proud Cedars 'gainst the fi