22 NA TURAL HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE. 
Eros . He’s walking in the garden—thus: and 
spurns 
The rush that lies before him ; 
Antony and Cleopatra, Act iii. Scene 5. 
Martins . He that depends 
Upon your favours, swims with fins of lead, 
And hews down oaks with rushes. 
1st Senator. . . . our gates, 
Which yet seem shut, we have but pinn’d with rushes ; 
Coriolanus, Act i. Scenes 1 and 4. 
Romeo. ... let wantons, light of heart, 
Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels ; 
Romeo and Juliet, Act i. Scene 4. 
BURS. 
Lutio. ... I am a kind of bur, 
I shall stick. 
Measure for Measure, Act iv. Scene 3. 
Lysander. Hang off, thou cat, thou bur : 
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act iii. Scene 2. 
Rosalind. O, how full of briers is this working-day 
world ! 
Celia. They are but burs, cousin, thrown upon thee 
in holiday foolery; if we walk not in the trodden 
paths, our very, petticoats will catch them. 
Rosalind. I could shake them off my coat; these 
burs are in my heart. 
As You Like It, Act i. Scene 3. 
