HARLOCKS.
| | Cordelia. | Crown'd with rank Fumiter and Furrow-weeds,
With Harlocks, Hemlock, Nettles, Cuckoo-flowers. |
| King Lear, act iv, sc. 4 (3). (See [Cuckoo-flowers].) |
I cannot do better than follow Dr. Prior on this word: "Harlock, as usually printed in 'King Lear' and in Drayton, ecl. 4—
'The Honeysuckle, the Harlocke,
The Lily and the Lady-smocke,'
is a word that does not occur in the Herbals, and which the commentators have supposed to be a misprint for Charlock. There can be little doubt that Hardock is the correct reading, and that the plant meant is the one now called Burdock." Schmidt also adopts Burdock as the right interpretation.
HAWTHORNS.
| (1) | Rosalind. | There's a man hangs odes upon Hawthorns andelegies on Brambles. |
| As You Like It, act iii, sc. 2 (379). |
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| (2) | Quince. | This green plot shall be our stage, this Hawthorn-brakeour tiring house. |
| Midsummer Night's Dream, act iii, sc. 1 (3). |
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| (3) | Helena. | Your tongue's sweet air,
More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear,
When Wheat is green, when Hawthorn-buds appear. |
| Ibid., act i, sc. 1 (183). |
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| (4) | Falstaff. | I cannot cog and say thou art this and that, likea many of these lisping Hawthorn-buds. |
| Merry Wives, act iii, sc. 3 (76). |
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| (5) | K. Henry. | Gives not the Hawthorn-bush a sweeter shade
To shepherds looking on their silly sheep,
Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy
To kings that fear their subjects' treachery?
O yes, it doth; a thousand-fold it doth. |
| 3rd Henry VI, act ii, sc. 5 (42). |
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| (6) | Edgar. | Through the sharp Hawthorn blows the coldwind (bis). |
| King Lear, act iii, sc. 4 (47 and 102). |
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| (7) | Arcite. | Againe betake you to yon Hawthorne house. |
| Two Noble Kinsmen, act iii, sc. 1 (90). |
Under its many names of Albespeine, Whitethorn, Haythorn or Hawthorn, May, and Quickset, this tree has ever been a favourite with all lovers of the country.
