62 NA TURAL HIS TOR Y OF SHAKESPEARE . 
HYSSOP AND THYME. 
I ago. . . . Our bodies are our gardens; to 
the which our wills are gardeners : so that if we will 
plant nettles, or sow lettuce ; set hyssop, and weed 
up thyme ; supply it with one gender of herbs, or dis¬ 
tract it with many ; either to have it sterile with idle¬ 
ness, or manured with industry; why, the power and 
corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. 
Othello, Act i. Scene 3. 
Oberon. I know a bank where the wild thyme 
blows, 
Midsummer’s Night’s Dream, Act ii. Scene 1. 
BALM. 
Anne . The several chairs of order look you scour 
With juice of balm, and every precious flower: 
Merry Wives of Windsor, Act v. Scene 5. 
BURNET. 
Burgundy . The freckled cowslip, burnet, and 
green clover, 
King Henry V., Act v. Scene 2. 
