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PLANT-LORE OF SHAKESPEARE 
(12) Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepherd ? 
Thy sheep be in the Corn.— King Lear, iii. 6, 43. 
(13) All the idle weeds that grow 
In our sustaining Corn.— Ibid., iv. 4, 6. 
(14) First thrash the Corn, then after burn the straw. 
Titus Andronicus, ii. 3, 123. 
(15) O, let me teach you how to knit again 
This scattered Corn into*one mutual sheaf.— Ibid., v. 3, 7 °- 
(16) Our ships are stored with Corn to make your needy bread. 
Pericles, i. 4, 95. 
(17) Your grace that fed my country with your Corn. 
Ibid., iii. 3, 18. 
(iS) For Corn at their own rates.— Coriolanus, i. 1, 193. 
The gods sent not Corn for the rich men only.— Ibid., 211. 
The Volsces have much Corn.— Ibid., 253. 
We stood up about the Corn.— Ibid., ii. 3, 16. 
Corn was given them gratis.— Ibid., iii. 1, 43. 
Tell me of Corn!— Ibid., 61. 
The Corn of the storehouse gratis.— Ibid., 125. 
The Corn was not our recompense.— Ibid., 120. 
This kind of service 
Did not deserve Corn gratis. — Coriolanus, iii. 1, 124. 
(19) I am right glad to catch this good occasion 
Most thoroughly to be winnow’d, where my chaff 
And Corn shall fly asunder.— Henry VIII, v. 1, no. 
(20) Her foes shake like a field of beaten Corn 
And hang their heads with sorrow.— Ibid., v. 4, 32. 
(21) We’ll make foul weather with despised tears ; 
Our sighs and they shall lodge the summer Corn. 
Richard II, iii. 3, 161. 
(22) And run 
Swifter then winde upon a field of Come 
(Curling the wealthy eares) never flew. 
Two Noble Kinsmen, ii. 3, 91. 
