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The word has an interest from its biblical associations, though 
modern scholars decide that the Zizania is wrongly translated 
Tares, and that it is rather a bastard Wheat or Darnel. 
Dines* 
(1) 
(2) 
(3) 
Feed him with Apricocks and Dewberries, 
With purple Grapes, green Figs, and Mulberries. 
Midsummer Night's Dream, iii. 1, 169. 
The tartness of his face sours ripe Grapes. 
Coriolanus, v. 4, 18. 
Come, thou monarch of the Vine, 
Plumpy Bacchus, with pink eyne ! 
In thy fats our cares be drown’d, 
With thy Grapes our hairs be crown’d. 
Antou-y and Cleopatra , ii. 7, 120. 
(4) Now no more 
The juice of Egypt’s Grape shall moist this lip. 
Ibid.) v. 2, 284. 
(5) Dry up thy Marrows, Vines, and plough-torn leas. 
Timon of Athens, iv. 3, 193. 
(6) Go, suck the subtle blood o’ the Grape, 
Till the high fever seethe your blood to froth.— Ibid., 432. 
(7) The heathen philosopher, when he had a desire to eat a Grape, would 
open his lips when he put it into his mouth; meaning thereby that 
Grapes were made to eat and lips to open.— As Yott. Like It, v. 1, 36. 
(8) Blessed Fig’s end ! the wine she drinks is made of Grapes. 
Othello, ii. 1, 250. 
(9) O, will you eat no Grapes, my royal fox ? 
Yes, but you will my noble Grapes, an if 
My royal fox could reach them. 
All's Well that Ends Well, ii. 1, 73. 
(10) There’s one Grape yet.— Ibid., ii. 1, 105. 
(11) ’Twas in “The Bunch of Grapes,” where, indeed, you have a delight 
to sit.— Measure for Measure, ii. 1, 133. 
