holds.

_Merry Wives_, act i, sc. 3 (94).

I merely mention this to point out that "Gourd," though probably
originally derived from the fruit, is not the fruit here, but is an
instrument of gambling. The fruit, however, was well known in
Shakespeare's time, and was used as the type of intense greenness--

"Whose coerule stream, rombling in pebble-stone,
Crept under Moss, as green as any Gourd."

SPENSER, _Virgil's Gnat_.

GRACE, _see_ RUE.

GRAPES, _see_ VINES.

GRASSES.

(1) _Gonzalo._

How lush and lusty the Grass looks! how green!

_Tempest_, act ii, sc. 1 (52).

(2) _Iris._

Here, on this Grass-plot, in this very place
To come and sport.

_Ibid._, act iv, sc. 1 (73).

(3) _Ceres._

Why hath thy Queen
Summon'd me hither to this short-grass'd green?

_Ibid._ (82).

(4) _Lysander._

When Phoebe doth behold
Her silver visage in the watery glass,
Decking with liquid pearl the bladed Grass.

_Midsummer Night's Dream_, act i, sc. 1 (209).

(5) _King._

Say to her, we have measured many miles
To tread a measure with her on this Grass.

_Boyet._

They say, that they have measured many miles
To tread a measure with her on the Grass.

_Love's Labour's Lost_, act v, sc. 2 (184).

(6) _Clown._

I am no great Nebuchadnezzar, sir, I have not much skill in
Grass.

_All's Well that Ends Well_, act iv, sc. 5 (21).

(7) _Luciana._

If thou art changed to aught, 'tis to an ass.

_Dromio of Syracuse._

'Tis true; she rides me, and I long for Grass.

_Comedy of Errors_, act ii, sc. 2 (201).

(8) _Bolingbroke._

Here we march
Upon the Grassy carpet of the plain.

_Richard II_, act iii, sc. 3 (49).

(9) _King Richard._

And bedew
Her pasture's Grass with faithful English blood.

_Ibid._ (100).

(10) _Ely._

Grew like the summer Grass, fastest by night,
Unseen,