The Corn was not our recompense.
_Ibid._ (120).
This kind of service
Did not deserve Corn gratis.
_Coriolanus_, act iii, sc. 1 (124).
(19) _Cranmer._
I am right glad to catch this good occasion
Most thoroughly to be winnow'd, where my chaff
And Corn shall fly asunder.
_Henry VIII_, act v, sc. 1 (110).
(20) _Cranmer._
Her foes shake like a field of beaten Corn
And hang their heads with sorrow.
_Ibid._, act v, sc. 4 (32).
(21) _K. Richard._
We'll make foul weather with despised tears;
Our sighs and they shall lodge the summer Corn.
_Richard II_, act iii, sc. 3 (161).
(22) _Arcite._
And run
Swifter then winde upon a field of Corne
(Curling the wealthy eares) never flew.
_Two Noble Kinsmen_, act ii, sc. 3 (91).
(23)
As Corn o'ergrown by weeds, so heedful fear
Is almost choked by unresisted lust.
_Lucrece_ (281).
I have made these quotations as short as possible. They could not be
omitted, but they require no comment.
COWSLIP.
(1) _Burgundy._
The even mead that erst brought sweetly forth
The freckled Cowslip, Burnet, and green Clover.
_Henry V_, act v, sc. 2 (48).
(2) _Queen._
The Violets, Cowslips, and the Primroses,
Bear to my closet.
_Cymbeline_, act i, sc. 5 (83).
(3) _Iachimo._
On her left breast
A mole, cinque-spotted, like the crimson drops
I' the bottom of a Cowslip.
_Ibid._, act ii, sc. 2 (37).
(4) _Ariel._
Where the bee sucks there suck I,
In a Cowslip's bell I lie.
_Tempest_, act v, sc. 1 (88).
(5) _Thisbe._
Those yellow Cowslip cheeks.
_Midsummer Night's Dream_, act v, sc. 1 (339).
(6) _Fairy._
The Cowslips tall her pensioners be;
In their gold coats spots you see;
Those be rubies, fairy favours,
In those freckles live their savours;
I must go see
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