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a block : an oak, but with one green leaf on it, would 
have answered her; 
Much Ado about Nothing, Act ii. Scene 1. 
Oliver. Under an old oak, whose boughs were 
moss’d with age, 
And high top bald with dry antiquity, 
A wretched ragged man, o’ergrown with hair, 
Lay sleeping on his back: 
As You Like It, Act iv. Scene 3. 
Pauline . . . . and will not 
..once remove 
The root of his opinion, which is rotten, 
As ever oak, or stone, was sound. 
A Winter’s Tale, Act ii. Scene 3. 
Messenger . But Hercules himself must yield to 
odds ; 
And many strokes, though with a little axe, 
Hew down and fell the hardest-timber’d oak. 
King Henry VI., Part III. Act ii. Scene 1. 
Casca. O Cicero, 
I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds 
Have rived the knotty oaks; 
Julius Cesar, Act i. Scene 3. 
Nestor. . . . but when the splitting wind 
Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks, 
Troilus and Cressida, Act i. Scene 3. 
lago. She that so young could give out such a 
seeming, 
To seal her father’s eyes up, close as oak,— 
Othello, Act iii. Scene 3. 
