38 NATURAL HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE. 
Adriana. Usurping ivy, brier, or idle moss ; 
Comedy of Errors, Act ii. Scene 2. 
A belt of straw and ivy buds, 
Passionate Pilgrim, xviii. 
HAWTHORN. 
Helena. . . . when hawthorn buds appear, 
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act i. Scene. 1. 
Rosalind. . . . hangs odes upon hawthorns, 
. . all, forsooth, deifying the name of Rosalind : 
As You Like It, Act iii. Scene 2. 
King Henry. Gives not the hawthorn-bush a sweeter 
shade 
To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, 
Than doth a rich embroider’d canopy 
To kings, that fear their subjects’ treachery ? 
King Henry VI., Part III. Act ii. Scene 5. 
Edgar. Still through the hawthorn blows the cold 
wind : 
King Lear, Act iii. Scene 4. 
OSIERS. 
Nathaniel. Those thoughts to me were oaks, to 
thee like osiers bow’d. 
Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act iv. Scene 2. 
Celia. The rank of osiers, by the murmuring 
stream, 
As You Like It, Act iv. Scene 3. 
