68 NATURAL HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE . 
Poet. .... 
Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes 
From whence ’tis nourish’d : 
Timon of Athens, Act i. Scene i. 
Hamlet. . . . plum tree gum; . . . 
Hamlet, Act ii. Scene 2. 
CAMOMILE. 
Falstajf. ... for though the camomile, the 
more it is trodden the faster it grows, yet youth, the 
more it is wasted the sooner it wears. 
King Henry IV., Part I. Act ii. Scene 4. 
ACONITUM. 
King Henry . ... as strong 
x\s aconitum, 
King Henry IV., Part II. Act iv. Scene 4. 
COLOQUINTIDA. LOCUSTS. 
/ago. . . . the food that to him now is as 
luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter 
as coloquintida. 
Othello, Act i. Scene 3. 
