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(6) .Tell him, in hope he’ll prove a widower shortly, 
I’ll wear the Willow garland for his sake. 
3 rd HeJiry VI, iii. 3, 227. 
(7) [The same words repeated.]— Ibid., iv. I, 99. 
(8) There is a Willow grows aslant a brook, 
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream. 
There on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds 
Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke. 
Hamlet\ iv. 7, 167, 
(9) The poor soul sat sighing by a Sycamore tree. 
Sing all a green Willow ; 
Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee, 
Sing Willow, Willow, Willow. 
The fresh streams ran by her, and murmur’d her moans ; 
Sing Willow, Willow, Willow. 
Her salt tears fell from her and soften’d the stones, 
Sing Willow, Willow, Willow. 
Sing all a green Willow must be my garland. 
Othello, iv. 3, 41. 
(10) 
I will play the swan, 
And die in music. [Singing] Willow, Willow, Willow. 
Ibid. , v. 2, 247. 
(II) 
Then she sang 
Nothing but Willow, Willow, Willow. 
Two Noble Kinsmen, iv. 1, ico. 
(12) 
I must up-fdl this Willow cage of ours 
With baleful Weeds and precious juiced Flowers. 
Romeo and Juliet , ii. 3, 7 - 
(13) 
West of this place, down in the neighbour bottom ; 
The rank of Osiers by the murmuring stream 
Left on your right hand, brings you to the place. 
As You Like It, iv. 3, 79 * 
(14) 
When Cytherea all in love forlorn 
A longing tarriance for Adonis made 
Under an Osier growing by a brook.— Passionate Pilgrim, vi. 
(15) 
Though to myself forsworn, to thee I’ll constant prove ; 
Those thoughts, to me like Oaks, to thee like Osiers bow’d. 
Ibid. , v. 
See also Palm Tree, No. i, p. 204. 
