34 NATURAL HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE. 
Prove this a prosperous day, the three-nook’d world 
Shall bear the olive freely. 
Antony and Cleopatra, Act iv. Scene 6 . 
Incertainties now crown themselves assured, 
And peace proclaims olives of endless age. 
Sonnet CVII. 
MYRTLE. 
Isabella. Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous 
bolt, 
Splitt’st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, 
Than the soft myrtle : 
Measure for Measure, Act ii. Scene 2. 
Euphronius. ... as petty to his ends, 
As is the morn-dew on the myrtle-leaf 
To his grand sea. 
Antony and Cleopatra, Act iii. Scene 10. 
. . she hasteth to a myrtle grove, 
Venus and Adonis. 
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle 
Embroider’d all with leaves of myrtle. 
Sitting in a pleasant shade 
Which a grove of myrtles made, 
Passionate Pilgrim, xx. and xxi. 
HAZEL. 
Petnicio . Kate, like the hazel-twig, 
Is straight, and slender ; 
Taming of the Shrew, Act ii. Scene 1. 
