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" Those rich-left heirs that let their fathers lie Without a monument !) bring thee all this ; Yea, and furr'd moss besides, when flowers are none, To winter-ground thy corse. "
Gaisford prize: Greek Theocritean verse [Cymbeline, act 4, scene 2, tr.] by ... - Page 6
by William Shakespeare - 1869
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A Dictionary of the Language of Shakespeare

Swynfen Jervis - 1868 - 390 pages
...seasons such as these 1 King Lear, iii. 4. To WINTER-GROUND. To winter-strew; to strew in winter-time. Yea, and furr'd moss besides, when flowers are none, To winter-ground thy corse. Cymbeline, iv. 2. To Wis. To know ; to think. I wis your grandam had a worser match. Richard 3, i....
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A Dictionary of the Language of Shakspeare, Volume 70

Swynfen Jervis - 1868 - 386 pages
...mouth no more were broken than these boys'. AIT s well that ends well, iL 3. FURRED. Soft ; furlike. Yea, and furr'd moss besides, when flowers are none, To winter-ground thy corse. Cymbeline, iv. 2. FURTHERER. A promoter; a seconder; an abetter. Thy brother was a furtherer in the...
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The Holly and Mistletoe: Beautiful Bouquets, Culled from the Poets ..., Book 1

1869 - 182 pages
...eglantine, which, not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath; the ruddock* would With charitable bill, bring thee all this; Yea, and furr'd moss besides,...when flowers are none, To winter-ground thy corse. SllAKSPEARE. * Redbreast. THE YELLOW VIOLET. j]HEN beechen buds begin to swell, And woods the blue-bird's...
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Charles Kemble's Shakspere readings, a selection of the plays as ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1870 - 336 pages
...eglantine, which not to slander it, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath : the ruddock would, With charitable bill, bring thee all this ; Yea, and furr'd moss besides,...when flowers are none, To winter-ground thy corse. Gut. Pr'ythee, have done; and let us bury him By good Euriphile, our mother. Arv. Be it so : And let...
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The Ornithology of Shakespeare: Critically Examined, Explained, and Illustrated

James Edmund Harting - Birds - 1871 - 840 pages
...not thy breath : the ruddock would, With charitable bill, — O, bill, sore-shaming Those rich-left heirs that let their fathers lie Without a monument...when flowers are none, To winter-ground thy corse."* Cymbeline, Act iv. Sc. 2. Bishop Percy asks, " Is this an allusion to the ' Babes in the Wood,' or...
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Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly ..., Volume 3

John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1872 - 524 pages
...Cymbeline, act iv. sc. 2 : " The ruddock would With charitable bill (0 bill, sore shaming Those rich-left heirs that let their fathers lie Without a monument!)...when flowers are none, To winter-ground thy corse." Again in Eeed's Old Plays, vi. 358 : " Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1874 - 646 pages
...sore-shaming Those rich-left heirs, that let their fathers lie Without a monument !) bring thee all this ; I Yea, and furr'd moss besides, when flowers are none, To winter-ground thy corse. Gut. Pr'ythee, have done ; And do not play in wench-like words with that Which is so serious. Let us...
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The Two Noble Kinsmen, Volume 1

John Fletcher, William Shakespeare - 1876 - 200 pages
...linking May's sweetness to the " moist rich smell of the rotting leaves " in the late season ;— " Yea, and furr'd moss besides, when flowers are none, To winter-ground thy corse." Such a succession is both possible and natural, and may be signified by the passage. The point is,...
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The two noble kinsmen [by J. Fletcher]. Repr. of the quarto, 1634, ed. by H ...

John Fletcher - 1876 - 536 pages
...linking May's sweetness to the " moist rich smell of the rotting leaves " in the late season ; — "Yea, and furr'd moss besides, when flowers are none, To winter-ground thy corse." Such a succession is both possible and natural, and may be signified by the passage. The point is,...
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The Two Noble Kinsmen

John Fletcher - 1876 - 326 pages
...linking May's sweetness to the " moist rich Mnell of tite rotting leaves "t in the late season ;— " Yea, and furr'd moss besides, when flowers are none, To winter-ground thy corse." Such a succession is both possible and natural, and may be signified by the passage. The point is,...
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