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SHAKESPEARE’S GARDEN 
posed of it (“Met.,” xi. 6l0). There are five refer¬ 
ences to the wood in the poet’s lines, but one of 
which is literal : 
The clearstores towards the south north are lustrous as ebony. 
Twelfth Night, IV. ii. 41. 
Otherwise we get, “ ebon-coloured ink ” ( Love's 
Labour's Lost , I. i. 246, and the amusing— 
King. By heaven, thy love is black as ebony. 
Biron. Is ebony like her ? O wood divine! 
A wife of such wood were felicity. 
Ibid., IV. iii. 247. 
