THE GARDEN-CRAFT OF SHAKESPEARE 357 
i.—flowers, Blossoms, anb Bubs. 
Fairies use flowers for their charactery. 
Merry Wives of Windsor , v. 5, 77. 
She his hairy temples then had rounded 
With coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers ; 
And that same dew, which sometime in the buds 
Was wont to swell like round and orient pearls, 
Stood now within the pretty flowerets’ eyes, 
Like tears that did their own disgrace bewail. 
Midsummer Night's Dream, iv. 1, 56. 
Suppose the singing birds musicians, 
The grass whereon thou tread’st the presence strew’d, 
The flowers fair ladies.— Richard II, i. 3, 288. 
When I am dead, good wench, 
Let me be used with honour ; strew me over 
With maiden flowers, that all the world may know 
I was a chaste wife to my grave.— Henry VIII , iv. 2, 167. 
White his shroud as the mountain snow 
Larded with sweet flowers, 
Which bewept to the grave did go 
With true-love showers.— Hamlet , iv. 5, 35. 
Whiles yet the dew’s on ground, gather those flowers. 
Cymbeline, i. 5, 1. 
Hark ! hark ! the lark at Heaven’s gate sings, 
And Phoebus ’gins to rise, 
Llis steeds to water at those springs 
On chaliced flowers that lies.— Ibid., ii. 3, 21. 
With fairest flowers, 
While summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, 
I’ll sweeten thy sad grave.— Ibid., iv. 2, 218. 
Here’s a few flowers ; but ’bout midnight, more ; 
The herbs that have on them cold dew o’ the night 
Are strewing fitt’st for graves. Upon their faces, 
You were as flowers, now withered ; even so 
These herblets shall, which we upon you strew. 
Ibid. , 283. 
