[485] See Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. i. p. 212.
[486] “Shakespeare’s Garden,” p. 143.
[487] See “Winter’s Tale,” iv. 4:
“Lawn as white as driven snow;
Cyprus black as e’er was crow.”
Its transparency is alluded to in “Twelfth Night,” iii. 1:
“a cyprus, not a bosom,
Hides my heart.”
[488] See Dyce’s “Glossary,” 1872, p. 113.
[489] Douce’s “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” 1839, p. 56. See Mr. Gough’s “Introduction to Sepulchral Monuments,” p. lxvi.; also Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. i. p. 221.
[490] See Dr. Prior’s “Popular Names of British Plants,” 1870, p. 63.
[491] “Flower-Lore,” p. 35.