PLANT-LORE OF SHAKESPEARE 
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Olive. 
(1) To whom the heavens in thy nativity 
Adjudged an Olive branch. 
3 rdHenry VI, iv. 6, 33. (See Laurel.) 
(2) Bring me into your city, 
And I will use the Olive with my sword. 
Timon of Athens, v. 4, 81. 
(3) Prove this a prosperous day, the three-nook’d world 
Shall bear the Olive freely.— Antony and Cleopatra , iv. 6, 5. 
(4) If you will know my house 
’Tis at the tuft of Olives here hard by. 
As You Like It, iii. 5, 74. 
(5) Where, in the purlieus of this forest stands 
A sheepcote fenced about with Olive trees?— Ibid., iv. 3, 77. 
(6) I bring no overture of war, no taxation of homage ; I hold the Olive 
in my hand; my words are as full of peace as matter. 
Twelfth Night, i. 5, 224. 
(7) There is not now a rebel’s sword unsheath’d. 
But peace puts forth her Olive everywhere. 
2nd Henry IV, iv. 4, 86. 
(8) And peace proclaims Olives of endless age.— Sonnet cvii. 
There is no certain record by which we can determine when 
the Olive tree was first introduced into England. Miller gives 
1648 as the earliest date he could discover, at which time it 
was grown in the Oxford Botanic Garden. But I have no 
doubt it was cultivated long before that. Parkinson knew it as 
an English tree in 1640, for he says: “It flowereth in the 
beginning of summer in the warmer countries, but very late 
with us; the fruite ripeneth in autumne in Spain, &c., but 
seldome with us” (“Herball,” 1640). Gerard had an Oleaster 
in his garden in 1596, which Mr. Jackson considers to have 
been the Olea Europea , and with good reason, as in his account 
of the Olive in the “ Herbal ” he gives Oleaster as one of the 
synonyms of Olea sylvestris , the wild Olive tree. But I think 
