Part 108 (1/2)

FOOTNOTES:

[318:1] Yet Homer considered it to be indigenous in Sicily--Odyss: ix, 109--and Cicero, perhaps on the authority of Homer, says the same: ”Insula Cereris . . . ubi primum fruges inventae esse dic.u.n.tur.”--_In Verrem_, v, 38.

WILLOW.

(1) _Viola._

Make me a Willow cabin at your gate.

_Twelfth Night_, act i, sc. 5 (287).

(2) _Bened.i.c.k._

Come, will you go with me?

_Claudio._

Whither?

_Bened.i.c.k._

Even to the next Willow, about your own business.

_Much Ado About Nothing_, act ii, sc. 1 (192).

_Bened.i.c.k._

I offered him my company to a Willow tree, either to make him a garland, as being forsaken, or to bind him up a rod, as being worthy to be whipped.

_Ibid._ (223).

(3) _Nathaniel._

These thoughts to me were Oaks, to thee like Osiers bow'd.

_Love's Labour's Lost_, act iv, sc. 2 (112).

(4) _Lorenzo._

In such a night Stood Dido, with a Willow in her hand, Upon the wild sea-banks.

_Merchant of Venice_, act v, sc. 1 (9).

(5) _Bona._