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Your fair discourse hath been as Sugar, 
Making the hard way sweet and delectable. 
Richard II, ii. 3, 6. 
(7) Let me see,—-what am I to buy for our sheep-shearing feast? Three 
pound of Sugar, five pound of Currants.— Winter’s Tale , iv. 3, 39. 
(8) You have witchcraft in your lips, Kate : there is more eloquence in a 
Sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council. 
Henry V\ v. 2, 401. 
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Poor painted Queen, vain flourish of my fortune ! 
Why strew’st thou Sugar on that bottled spider, 
Whose deadly web ensnareth thee about ? 
Richard III, i. 3, 241. 
Your grace attended to their Sugar’d words, 
But look’d not on the poison of their hearts. 
Richard III, iii. 1, 13. 
We are oft to blame in this— 
’Tis too much proved—that with devotion’s visage 
And pious actions we do Sugar o’er 
The devil himself.— Hamlet, iii. 1, 46. 
These sentences, to Sugar, or to gall, 
Being strong on both sides, are equivocal.— Othello, i. 3, 216. 
And never learn’d 
The icy precepts of respect, but follow’d 
The Sugar’d game before thee.— Timon of Athens, iv. 3, 257. 
By fair persuasion mix’d with Sugar’d words 
We will entice the Duke of Burgundy. 
1 st Henry VI, iii. 3, 18. 
Hide not thy poison with such Sugar’d words. 
2 nd Henry VI, iii. 2, 45. 
(16) One poor pennyworth of Sugar-candy, to make thee long-winded. 
1st Henry IV, iii. 3, 180. 
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Thy Sugar’d tongue to bitter Wormwood taste. 
Lucrece, 893. 
As a pure vegetable product, though manufactured, Sugar 
cannot be passed over in an account of the plants of Shake¬ 
speare ; but it will not be necessary to say much about it. Yet 
