SHREW
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SHREW

SHREW: did pretty Jessica, like a little shrew, slander her love, and he forgave her. Shrew is used as an insult to women perceived to be nagging or scolding in several works including 'Taming of the Shrew'.

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ANGELICA
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ANGELICA

Angelica: Look to the baked meats, good Angelica. Spare not the cost. Angelica is usually taken as the name of a kitchen worker in this scene but it also refers to a highly valued cultivated plants which was used for taste, medicine and spiritual protection.

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ROOK
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ROOK

Rook: Augurs and understood relations have by maggot pies and choughs and rooks brought forth the secret'st man of blood. Rooks are one of the more social birds of the Crow Family.

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ALOE
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ALOE

Aloe appears only in the Lovers Complaint. They symbolise bitterness in contrast to love's sweetness.

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DEWBERRY
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DEWBERRY

Shakespeare Species Dewberry: feed him with apricocks and dewberries. Titania lists all the delicacies that she will feed to Bottom during her infatuation. Dewberries are closely related to Blackberries.

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PEAR
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PEAR

Shakespeare Species Pear: they would whip me with their fine wits till I were as crestfallen as a dried pear. Another of Falstaff's vivid fruit based images.

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BEAR
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BEAR

Shakespeare Species Bear: foolish curs, that run winking into the mouth of a Russian bear. Bears were familiar in Shakespeare's world through the widespread, brutal practice of Bear-baiting.

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Filbert
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Filbert

Shakespeare Species Filbert: I'll bring thee to clustering filberts. Calaban offers to show the shipwrecked sailors how to find wild food on his island. Filberts are larger, cultivated Hazelnuts.

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