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the hissing of serpents, and, as a little Strawberry, you will 
not suffer contamination from slimy things creeping near you.” 
—St. Francis de Sales. 
I need only add that the Strawberry need not be confined to 
the kitchen-garden, as there are some varieties which make 
very good carpet plants, such as the variegated Strawberry, 
which, however, is very capricious in its variegation ; the double 
Strawberry, which bears pretty white button-like flowers ; and 
the Fragaria lucida from California, which has very bright 
shining leaves, and was, when first introduced, supposed to be 
useful in crossing with other species ; but I have not heard 
that this has been successfully effected. 
Sugar. 
(1) But, sweet Ned—to sweeten which name of Ned, I give thee this 
pennyworth of Sugar clapped even now into my hand by an under- 
skinker. 
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To drive away the time till Falstaff comes, I prithee, do thou stand in 
some by-room, while I question my puny drawer to what end he gave 
me the Sugar. 
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Nay, but hark you, Francis ; for the Sugar thou gavest me, ’twas a 
pennyworth, was’t not?— 1 st Henry IV, ii. 4, 23, 31, 64. 
(2) Biron. White-handed mistress, one sweet word with thee. 
Princess. Honey, and Milk, and Sugar, there is three. 
Love's Labour's Lost, v. 2, 230. 
(3) And in such wine and Sugar of the best and the fairest, that would have 
won any woman’s heart.— Merry Wives, ii. 2, 70. 
(4) Here are sever’d lips 
Parted with Sugar breath ; so sweet a bar 
Should sunder such sweet friends. 
Merchant of Venice, iii. 2, 118. 
(5) Honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to Sugar. 
As You Like It, iii. 2, 30. 
