lew. 
(1) My shroud of white, stuck all with Yew, 
Oh ! prepare it.— Twelfth Night, ii. 4, 56. 
(2) Gall of goat, and slips of Yew 
Sliver’d in the moon’s eclipse.— Macbeth , iv. 1, 27. 
(3) Thy very beadsmen learn to bend their bows 
Of double-fatal Yew against thy state .—Richard //, iii. 2, 116. 
(4) But straight they told me they would bind me here 
Unto the body of a dismal Yew. — Titus Andronicus , ii. 3, 106. 
(5) Under yond Yew-trees lay thee all along, 1 
Holding thine ear close to the hollow ground ; 
So shall no foot upon the churchyard tread 
(Being loose, unfirm, with digging up of graves) 
But thou shalt hear it .—Romeo andJuliet, v. 3, 3. 
(6) As I did sleep under this Yew-tree here, 1 
I dreamt my master and another fought, 
And that my master slew him.— Ibid ., 137. 
See also Hebenon, p. 118. 
HE Yew, though undoubtedly an indigenous 
British plant, has not a British name. The 
name is derived from the Latin Iva , and 
“under this name we find the Yew so inextric¬ 
ably mixed up with the Ivy that, as dissimilar 
as are the two trees, there can be no doubt that 
these names are in their origin identical.” So says Dr. Prior, 
and he proceeds to give a long and very interesting account of 
1 The reading of the Folio is “ young tree ” for “ Yew tree.” 
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