26 NA TURAL HIS TOR Y OF SHA KESPEARE. 
Volumnia. To a cruel war I sent him ; from 
whence he returned, his brows bound with oak. 
Volumnia. ... he comes the third time home 
with the oaken garland. 
2 d Guard. The worthy fellow is our general : he is 
the rock, the oak not to be wind-shaken. 
Volumnia. And yet to charge thy sulphur with a 
bolt 
That should but rive an oak. 
Coriolanus, Act i. Scene 3 ; Act ii. Scene i. ; 
Act v. Scenes 2 and 3. 
Timon. That numberless upon me stuck, as leaves 
Do on the oak, 
Timon of Athens, Act iv. Scene 3. 
Those thoughts, to me like oaks, to thee like osiers 
bow’d. 
Passionate Pilgrim, v. 
CEDAR. 
Prospero. . . . and by the spurs pluck’d up 
The pine and cedar : 
The Tempest, Actv. Scene 1. 
Dumain . As upright as the cedar. 
Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act iv. Scene 3. 
Warwick. (As on a mountain-top the cedar shows, 
That keeps his leaves in spite of any storm,) 
King Henry VI., Part II. Act v. Scene 1. 
