TREES. 
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BRAMBLES. 
elegies on brambles; 
As You Like It. Act iii. Scene 2. 
HIPS. BRIERS. GOSS. 
Ariel. . . . so I charm’d their ears, 
That, calf-like, they my lowing follow’d, through 
Sooth’d briers, sharp furzes, pricking goss, and thorns, 
Which enter’d their frail shins : 
Tempest, Act iv. Scene 1. 
Rosalind. 
world ! 
O, how full of briers is this working-day 
As You Like It, Act i. Scene 3. 
Helena . . . . the time will bring on summer 
When briers shall have leaves as well as thorns, 
And be as sweet as sharp. 
All’s Well that Ends Well, Act iv. Scene 4. 
Timon. The oaks bear mast, the briers scarlet hips : 
Timon of Athens, Act iv. Scene 3. 
LING. HEATH. FURZE. BROOM.- 
Gonzalo. Now would I give a thousand furlongs 
of sea for an acre of barren ground ; ling, heath, 
broom, furze, anything. The wills above be done ! 
but I would fain die a dry death. 
Tempest, Act i. Scene 1. 
