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nest,” and Gerard gives us the reason, and it is a reason that 
shows they were more observant of the habits of plants than 
we generally give them credit for: “The whole tuft (of flowers) 
is drawn together when the seed is ripe, resembling a bird’s 
nest; whereupon it hath been named of some Bird’s-nest.” 
debar. 
(1) And by the spurs pluck’d up 
The Pine and Cedar.— Tempest , v. I, 47. 
(2) As upright as the Cedar.— Love's Labour's Lost , iv. 3, 89. 
(3) As on a mountain top the Cedar shows, 
That keeps his leaves in spite of any storm. 
2nd Henry VI, v. 1, 205. 
(4) Thus yields the Cedar to the axe’s edge, 
Whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle, 
Under whose shade the ramping lion slept, 
Whose top-branch o’erpeered Jove’s spreading tree, 
And kept low shrubs from winter’s powerful wind. 
3 rd Henry VL, v. 2, 11. 
(5) He shall flourish, 
And, like a mountain Cedar, reach his branches 
To all the plains about him.— Henry VIII , v. 5, 215. 
(6) When from a stately Cedar shall be lopped branches, which, being 
dead many years, shall after revive. — Cymbeline , v. 4, 140; v. 5, 457. 
(7) The lofty Cedar, royal Cymbeline, 
Personates thee. Thy lopp’d branches 
.are now revived, 
To the majestic Cedar join’d.— Ibid,, v. 5, 453. 
(8) But I was born so high, 
Our aery buildeth in the Cedar’s top, 
And dallies with the wind and scorns the sun. 
Richard III, i. 3, 263, 
(9) Let the mutinous winds 
Strike the proud Cedars ’gainst the fiery sun 
Coriolanus , v. 3, 59. 
