Gorgeous illustrations (that you can recognize in the wild) of ALL the named plants in the Bard's canon all their quotes (& a dictionary)
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"Now I will believe that there are unicorns..."
~Sebastian, The Tempest
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Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn, Raphael exhibition @metmuseum
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That unicorns may be betray’d with trees
Julius Caesar 2.1.204
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Come not between the dragon and his wrath. #ShakespeareSunday King Lear A1S1
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“Tybalt, Prince of Cats sends his regards…!” 😼
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Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.
(Coriolanus)
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“Have you thus given Hydra here to choose an officer, that with his peremptory ‘shall,’ being but the horn and noise o’ the monster’s,” #Coriolanus #ShakespeareSunday
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Where, in the purlieus of this forest stands
A sheepcote fenced about with OLIVE trees? 🫒
~Oliver, As You Like It
3,000-Year-Old Olive tree on the island of Crete still produces olives today.
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When he was by, the birds such pleasure took,
That some would sing, some other in their bills
Would bring him Mulberries & ripe-red Cherries.
He fed them with his sight, they him with berries.
~Venus & Adonis
Mulberry trees 🌳 🍇 are often not as old as they look - this one at the Church of St John, Fulham, was ‘only’ planted by the then #MayorofFulham 80 years ago
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There's a daisy!
~ Ophelia
An old folk custom for determining when or if a wedding would take place was to pluck the petals from a common daisy (Bellis perennis) one by one while repeating the chant, “This year, next year, sometime, never”. The last remaining petal held the answer! #folklore #wildflowers
ALT Close-up photograph of a common daisy (Bellis perennis) growing among grass. White petals radiate around a bright yellow centre, sharply focused against a softly blurred green background.
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Why that the naked, poor & mangled Peace,
Dear Nurse of arts, plenties & joyful births,
Should not in this best garden of the world
Our fertile France, put up her lovely visage?
~Duke of Burgundy, Henry V
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From women’s eyes this doctrine I derive.
They sparkle still the right Promethean fire.
They are the books, the arts, the academes
That show, contain, and nourish all the world.
LLL 4:3
#medieval #stainedglass Mitcheldean, Glos. #StainedglassSunday
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I see a woman may be made a fool,
If she had not a spirit to resist.
TOTS 3.2
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"Do you not know I am a woman? When I think, I must speak."
As You Like It, Act 3, Scene 2
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Women will love her that she is a woman
More worth than any man; men, that she is
The rarest of all women.
The Winter’s Tale
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📷 Gabriel Figueroa
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“No, my lord, for then I danced till I was past the age. But, my lady, your mother cried; there was a star danced, and under that was I born." Much Ado About Nothing 2.1 #ShakespeareSunday
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There's rosemary, that's for remembrance.
Pray you, love, remember.
Hamlet IV. v.
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“Good news, good news, the ladies have prevail’d,” #Coriolanus #ShakespeareSunday
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Today's #ShakespeareSunday theme has been chosen by @lazarustheatre - Formidable & Fantastic Women!
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Where the bee sucks, where suck I...🐝🌸
~The Tempest
“Where there are bees there are flowers, and wherever there are flowers there is new life and hope.”
- Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo
ALT Collage of five close-up photographs showing bees visiting flowers. A honeybee gathers nectar from white Astrantia flowers, a bumblebee explores a yellow poppy, another bumblebee feeds on an apricot-coloured Geum bloom, a solitary bee rests within a purple geranium flower, and a bumblebee visits pink Erysimum blossoms.
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