| (1) | Gonzalo. | How lush and lusty the Grass looks! how green! |
| Tempest, act ii, sc. 1 (52). |
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| (2) | Iris. | Here, on this Grass-plot, in this very place
To come and sport. |
| Ibid., act iv, sc. 1 (73). |
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| (3) | Ceres. | Why hath thy Queen
Summon'd me hither to this short-grass'd green? |
| Ibid. (82). |
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| (4) | Lysander. | When Phœbe doth behold
Her silver visage in the watery glass,
Decking with liquid pearl the bladed Grass. |
| Midsummer Night's Dream, act i, sc. 1 (209). |
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| (5) | King. | Say to her, we have measured many miles
To tread a measure with her on this Grass. |
| | Boyet. | They say, that they have measured many miles
To tread a measure with her on the Grass. |
| Love's Labour's Lost, act v, sc. 2 (184). |
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| (6) | Clown. | I am no great Nebuchadnezzar, sir, I have not much skill in Grass. |
| All's Well that Ends Well, act iv, sc. 5 (21). |
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| (7) | Luciana. | If thou art changed to aught, 'tis to an ass. |
| | Dromio of Syracuse. | 'Tis true; she rides me, and I long for Grass. |
| Comedy of Errors, act ii, sc. 2 (201). |
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| (8) | Bolingbroke. | Here we march
Upon the Grassy carpet of the plain. |
| Richard II, act iii, sc. 3 (49). |
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| (9) | King Richard. | And bedew
Her pasture's Grass with faithful English blood. |
| Ibid. (100). |
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| (10) | Ely. | Grew like the summer Grass, fastest by night,Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty. |
| Henry V, act i, sc. 1 (65). |
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| (11) | King Henry. | Mowing like Grass
Your fresh-fair virgins and your flowering infants. |
| Ibid., act iii, sc. 3 (13). |
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| (12) | Grandpre. | And in their pale dull mouths the gimmal bit
Lies foul with chew'd Grass, still and motionless. |
| Henry V, act iv, sc. 2 (49). |
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| (13) | Suffolk. | Though standing naked on a mountain top
Where biting cold would never let Grass grow. |
| 2nd Henry VI, act iii, sc. 2 (336). |
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| (14) | Cade. | All the realm shall be in common; and in Cheapsideshall my palfrey go to Grass. |
| Ibid., act iv, sc. 2 (74). |
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| (15) | Cade. | Wherefore on a brick wall have I climbed intothis garden, to see if I can eat Grass or picka Sallet another while, which is not amiss tocool a man's stomach this hot weather. |
| Ibid., act iv, sc. 10 (7). |
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| (16) | Cade. | If I do not leave you all as dead as a door-nail,I pray God I may never eat Grass more. |
| Ibid. (42). |
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| (17) | 1st Bandit. | We cannot live on Grass, on berries, water,
As beasts and birds and fishes. |
| Timon of Athens, act iv, sc. 3 (425). |
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| (18) | Saturninus. | These tidings nip me, and I hang the head
As Flowers with frost or Grass beat down with storms. |
| Titus Andronicus, act iv, sc. 4 (70). |
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| (19) | Hamlet. | Ay but, sir, "while the Grass grows"—the proverb is something musty. |
| Hamlet, act iii, sc. 2 (358). |
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| (20) | Ophelia. | He is dead and gone, lady,
He is dead and gone;
At his head a Grass-green turf,
At his heels a stone.
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| Ibid., act iv, sc. 5 (29). |
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| (21) | Salarino. | I should be still
Plucking the Grass to know where sits the wind. |
| Merchant of Venice, act i, sc. 1 (17). |
