Ebony. 
(1) The Ebon-coloured ink.— Love's Labour s Lost , i. i, 245. 
(2) King. By heaven, thy love is black as Ebony. 
Biron. Is Ebony like her? O wood divine ! 
A wife of such wood were felicity.— Lbid ., iv. 3, 247. 
(3) The clearstores towards the south-north are as lustrous as Ebony. 
Twelfth Night , iv. 2, 41. 
(4) Rouse up revenge from Ebon den.— 2 nd Henry LV, v. 5, 39. 
(5) Death’s Ebon dart, to strike him dead.— Venus and Adonis , 948. 
BONY as a tree was unknown in England in 
the time of Shakespeare. The wood was 
introduced, and was the typical emblem of 
darkness. The timber is the produce of more 
than one species, but comes chiefly from 
Diospyros Ebenum , Ebenaster , melanoxylon , 
Mabola , &c. (Lindley), all natives of the East. 
Eglantine. 
(1) I know a bank where the wild Thyme blows, 
Where Oxlips and the nodding Violet grows; 
Quite over-canopied with luscious Woodbine, 
With sweet Musk-Roses and with Eglantine. 
Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. 1, 249. 
(2) Thou shalt not lack 
The flower that’s like thy face, pale Primrose, nor 
The azured Harebell, like thy veins, no, nor 
The leaf of Eglantine, whom not to slander, 
Out-sweeten’d not thy breath.— Cymbeline , iv. 2 220 
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