palm Uree. 
(1) Look here what I found on a Palm tree.— As You Like It, iii. 2, 185. 
(2) As love between them, like the Palm might flourish.— Hamlet , v. 2, 40. 
(3) And bear the Palm for having bravely shed 
Thy wife and children’s blood.— Coriolanus , v. 3, 117. 
(4) And bear the Palm alone. —Julius Caesar, i. 2, 131. 
(5) You shall see him a palm in Athens again, and flourish with the 
highest. — Timon of Athens, v. 1, 12. 
(6) The Vision —Enter, solemnly tripping one after another, six personages, 
clad in white robes, wearing on their heads garlands of Bays, and 
golden vizards on their faces; branches of Bays or Palm in their 
hands. —Henry VIII, iv. 2. 
O these passages may be added the following, 
in which the Palm-tree is certainly alluded to, 
though it is not mentioned by name— 
That in Arabia 
There is one tree, the Phoenix’ throne ; one Phoenix 
At this hour reigning there.— Tempest, iii. 3, 22. 1 
And from the poem by Shakespeare, published in Chester’s 
“Love’s Martyr,” 1601. 
“ Let the bird of loudest lay 
. On the sole Arabian tree 
Herald sad and Trumpet be, 
To whose sound chaste wings obey.” 
1 I do not include among “ Palms ” the passage in Hamlet , i. 1 : In 
“ the most high and palmy state of Rome,” because I bow to Arch¬ 
deacon Hares’ judgment that “ palmy” here means “grown to full height, 
in allusion to the palms of the stag’s horns, when they have attained to their 
utmost growth.” He does not, however, decide this with certainty, and 
the question may be still an open one. 
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