TREES. 
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Gloucester. Our aiery buildeth in the cedar's top, 
And dallies with the wind, and scorns the sun. 
King Richard III., Act. i. Scene 3. 
Cranmer. ... he shall flourish, 
And, like a mountain cedar, reach his branches 
To all the plains about him - 
King Henry VIII., Act v. Scene 5. 
Coriolanus. . . . then let the mutinous winds 
Strike the proud cedars ’gainst the fiery sun; 
Coriolanus, Act v. Scene 3. 
Soothsayer. . . . when from a stately cedar 
shall be lopped branches, which, being dead many 
years, shall after revive, be jointed to the old stock, 
and freshly grow; 
Soothsayer. The lofty cedar, royal Cymbeline, 
Personates thee : and thy lopp’d branches point 
Thy two sons forth : who, by Belarius stolen, 
For many years thought dead, are now revived, 
To the majestic cedar join’d ; whose issue 
Promises Britain peace and plenty. 
Cymbeline, Act v. Scene 5. 
Who doth the world so gloriously behold, 
The cedar-tops and hills seem burnish’d gold. 
Venus and Adonis. 
The cedar stoops not to the base shrub’s foot, 
But low shrubs wither at the cedar’s root. 
Rape of Lucrece. 
