PLANT-LORE OF SHAKESPEARE 
And by Shakespeare— 
The canker galls the infants of the Spring 
Too oft before their Buttons be disclosed.— Hamid , i. 3, 54. 
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Balm, Balsam, or Balsamum. 
Not all the water in the rough rude sea 
Can wash the Balm from an anointed king. 
Richard II, iii. 2, 54. 
With mine own tears I wash away my Balm. 
Ibid. , iv. 1, 207. 
’Tis not the Balm, the sceptre, and the ball. 
Henry V, iv. 1, 277. 
Thy place is fill’d, thy sceptre wrung from thee, 
Thy Balm wash’d off, wherewith thou wast anointed. 
3 rdHenry VI, iii. I, 16. 
My pity hath been Balm to heal their wounds. 
Ibid,, iv. 8, 41. 
I pour the helpless Balm of my poor eyes. 
Richard III , i. 2, 13. 
But, saying thus, instead of oil and Balm, 
Thou lay’st in every gash that love hath given me 
The knife that made it. — Troilus and Cressida , i. 1, 61. 
We sent to thee, to give thy rages Balm. 
Timon of Athens, v. 4, 16. 
Balm of your age, 
Most best, most dearest.— King Lear, i. 1, 218. 
Let all the tears that should bedew my hearse 
Be drops of Balm to sanctify thy head. 
2 nd Henry IV, iv. 5, 114. 
I am disgraced, impeach’d, and baffled here : 
Pierced to the soul with slander’s venom’d spear ; 
The which no Balm can cure, but his heart-blood 
Which breathed this poison.— Richard If i. 1, 170. 
