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bee well knows that the darkness is but for a moment, and that 
the sun will shine out again ere long.”—L ady Wilkinson. 
TEbonts. 
(1) Tooth’d Briers, sharp Furzes, pricking Goss, and Thorns, 
Which entered their frail skins.— Tempest, iv. 1, 180. 
(2) One must come in with a bush of Thorns and a lanthorn, and say he 
comes in to disfigure, or to present, the person of Moonshine. 
Midsummer Night's Dream, iii. 1, 60. 
(3) For Briers and Thorns at their apparel snatch.— Ibid., iii. 2, 29. 
(4) This man with lanthorn, dog, and bush of Thorn, 
Presenteth Moonshine.— Ibid., v. 1, 136. 
(5) All that I have to say, is to tell you that the lanthorn is the moon ; I, 
the man in the moon; this Thorn-bush, my Thorn-bush ; and this 
dog, my dog.— Ibid., 261. 
(6) But, alack, my hand is sworn 
Ne’er to pluck thee from thy Thom. 
Love’s Labour's Lost, iv. 3, in. 
(7) The woe’s to come ; the children yet unborn 
Shall feel this day as sharp to them as Thorn. 
Richard II, iv. 1, 322. 
(8) The care you have of us, 
To mow down Thorns that would annoy our foot, 
Is worthy praise.— 2 nd Henry VI, iii. 1, 66. 
(9) And I—like one lost in a Thorny wood, 
That rends the Thorns and is rent with the Thorns, 
Seeking a way, and straying from the way. 
3 rd Henry VI, iii. 2, 174. 
(10) Brave followers, yonder stands the Thorny wood.— Ibid., v. 4, 67, 
(n) What! can so young a Thorn begin to prick?— Ibid., v. 4, 13. 
(12) Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, 
Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like Thorn. 
Romeo and Juliet, i. 4, 25. 
