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" My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there ; I do beseech you send for some of them. "
A history of the vegetable kingdom - Page 340
by William Rhind - 1841
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The Companion for the Orchard: An Historical and Botanical Account of Fruits ...

Henry Phillips - Fruit - 1831 - 408 pages
...quality." From another of his dramatic pieces we are told how early they were cultivated in Holborn : — " My Lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there, I do beseech you send for some of them." The scarlet strawberry is a native of Virginia, where it grows...
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The Naturalist, Volumes 1-2

1831 - 796 pages
...bard, Shakspeare, takes notice of them in Henry V. ; and in one of his dramatic poems says : — ' My Lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn I saw good strawberries in your garden there.' Evidently alluding to the garden of the Bishop of Ely, who had a palace and garden near about where...
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The Dramatic Works, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1831 - 528 pages
...Than my lord Hastings, no man might be bolder ; His lordship knows me well, and loves me well. — My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there ; Ido beseech you send for some of them. Ely. Marry, and will, my lord, with all my heart. [Exit Ely....
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The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1832 - 846 pages
...makes the crafty Duke of Gloucester (afterwards Richard III.) pleasantly allude to its produce : ' My Lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there ; I do beseech you send for some of them.' Saffron Hill, in the immediate neighbourhood, carries in...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 21

1833 - 468 pages
...circumstance in the play of Riehard II1., when he makes Gloster thus address the prelate, John Morton: " My Lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there, ' 1 do beseech you sand for some of them." The .Londoners appear to have been formerly very tenacious...
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Outlines of botany

Gilbert Thomas Burnett - Botany - 1835 - 1050 pages
...metropolis. The fact has been mentioned by Hollinshed, and dramatized by Shakspeare, that Glo'ster, when contemplating the death of Hastings, asked the bishop...Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there." In the present day, Twickenham and Isleworth send the chief supplies to the London markets. And " one...
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Outlines of Botany: Including a General History of the Vegetable ..., Volume 2

Gilbert Thomas Burnett - Botany - 1835 - 692 pages
...metropolis. The fact has been mentioned by Hollinshed, and dramatized by Shakspeare, that Glo'ster, when contemplating the death of Hastings, asked the bishop...Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there." In the present day, Twickenham and Isleworth gend the chief supplies to the London markets. And " one...
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The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 646 pages
...Than my Lord Hastings, no man might be bolder ; His lordship knows me well, and loves me well. — you have uol to make it with, It must not be with this. Cats, Ton praise yourself By la ;• I do beseech you, send for some of them. Ely. Marry, and will, my lord, with all mv heart. [Eat...
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Select plays from Shakspeare; adapted for the use of schools and young ...

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 624 pages
...Than my lord Hastings, no man might be bolder ; His lordship knows me well, and loves me well. — My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there ; I do beseech you, send for some of them. Ely. Marry, and will, my lord, with all my heart. [Exit...
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Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 588 pages
...man might be bolder ; His lordship knows me well, and loves me well. Hast. I thank your grace.a Glo. My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there ; 3 I do beseech you, send for some of them. Ely. Marry, and will, my lord, with all my heart. [Exit...
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