yet crescive in his faculty.

_Henry V_, act i, sc. 1 (65).

(11) _King Henry._

Mowing like Grass
Your fresh-fair virgins and your flowering infants.

_Ibid._, act iii, sc. 3 (13).

(12) _Grandpre._

And in their pale dull mouths the gimmal bit
Lies foul with chew'd Grass, still and motionless.

_Henry V_, act iv, sc. 2 (49).

(13) _Suffolk._

Though standing naked on a mountain top
Where biting cold would never let Grass grow.

_2nd Henry VI_, act iii, sc. 2 (336).

(14) _Cade._

All the realm shall be in common; and in Cheapside shall my
palfrey go to Grass.

_Ibid._, act iv, sc. 2 (74).

(15) _Cade._

Wherefore on a brick wall have I climbed into this garden, to
see if I can eat Grass or pick a Sallet another while, which
is not amiss to cool a man's stomach this hot weather.

_Ibid._, act iv, sc. 10 (7).

(16) _Cade._

If I do not leave you all as dead as a door-nail, I pray God I
may never eat Grass more.

_Ibid._ (42).

(17) _1st Bandit._

We cannot live on Grass, on berries, water,
As beasts and birds and fishes.

_Timon of Athens_, act iv, sc. 3 (425).

(18) _Saturninus._

These tidings nip me, and I hang the head
As Flowers with frost or Grass beat down with storms.

_Titus Andronicus_, act iv, sc. 4 (70).

(19) _Hamlet._

Ay but, sir, "while the Grass grows"--the proverb is something
musty.

_Hamlet_, act iii, sc. 2 (358).

(20) _Ophelia._

He is dead and gone, lady,
He is dead and gone;
At his head a Grass-green turf,
At his heels a stone.

_Ibid._, act iv, sc. 5 (29).

(21) _Salarino._

I should be still
Plucking the Grass to know where sits the wind.

_Merchant of Venice_, act i, sc. 1 (17).

In and before Shakespeare's time Grass was used as a general term for
all plants. Thus Chaucer--

"And every grass that