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(5) King. Say to her, we have measured many miles 
To tread a measure with her on this Grass. 
Boyet. They say, that they have measured many miles 
To tread a measure with her on the Grass. 
Love s Labour’s Lost , v. 2, 184. 
(6) I am no great Nebuchadnezzar, sir, I have not much skill in Grass. 
AlPs Well that Ends Well , iv. 5, 21. 
(7) Liiciana. If thou art changed to aught, *tis to an ass. 
Dromio of Syracuse. ’Tis true ; she rides me, and I long for Grass. 
Comedy of Errors, ii. 2, 201. 
(8) Here we march 
Upon the Grassy carpet of the plain.— Richard //, iii. 3, 49. 
(9) And bedew 
Her pasture’s Grass with faithful English blood.— Lbid ., ico. 
(10) Grew like the summer Grass, fastest by night, 
Unseen, yetcrescive in his faculty.— Henry V , i. 1, 65. 
Mowing like Grass 
Your fresh-fair virgins and your flowering infants. 
Lbid., iii. 3, 13. 
And in their pale dull mouths the gimmal bit 
Lies foul with chew’d Grass, still and motionless. 
Henry V, iv. 2, 49. 
Though standing naked on a mountain-top 
Where biting cold would never let grass grow. 
2nd Henry VL, iii. 2, 336. 
(14) All the realm shall be in common ; and in Cheapside shall my palfrey 
go to Grass.— Lbid. , iv. 2, 74. 
(15) Wherefore on a brick wall have I climbed into this garden, to see if I 
can eat Grass or pick a Sallet another while, which is not amiss to 
cool a man’s stomach this hot weather.— Lbid., iv. 10, 7. 
(16) If I do not leave you all as dead as a door-nail, I pray God I may 
never eat Grass more.— Lbid., 42. 
(17) We cannot live on Grass, on berries, water, 
As beasts and birds and fishes.— Timon of Athens, iv. 3, 425. 
(18) These tidings nip me, and I hang the head 
v As Flowers with frost or Grass beat down with storms. 
Titus Andronicus , iv. 4, 70. 
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