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CRAB

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, CRAB: for yourself, sir, shall grow old as I am, if, like a crab, you could go backwards.

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SNAIL

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, SNAIL: Then the whining schoolboy with his satchel and shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school

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HONEY BEE

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, HONEY BEE: our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey, we bring it to the hive and, like the bees, are murdered for our pains.

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OLIVE

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, OLIVE: The time of universal peace is near. Prove this a prosp’rous day, the three-nooked world shall bear the olive freely.

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POPPY

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, POPPY: Not poppy nor mandragora nor all the drowsy syrups of the world shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep which thou owedst yesterday

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SPANIEL

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, SPANIEL: Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my love, the more it grows and fawneth on her still.

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APPLE

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, APPLE: An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek, a goodly apple rotten at the heart.

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WILLOW

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, WILLOW: She had a song of willow, an old thing ‘twas, but it expressed her fortune and she died singing it. That song tonight will not go from my mind.

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MALLARD

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, MALLARD: Antony, claps on his sea-wing and, like a doting mallard, leaving the fight in height, flies after her.

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TOAD

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day: TOAD: Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears a precious jewel in his head.

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Marigold & Mary Gold

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, MARIGOLD: No, I will rob Tellus of her weed to strew thy green with flowers. The yellows, blues, the purple violets and marigolds

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Burrs

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, BURR: Hang off thou cat, thou burr! Vile thing, let loose, Or I will shake thee from me like a serpent.

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SWANS

Ben Jonson famously called Shakespeare the “sweet swan of Avon” in his elegy at the front of the First Folio.

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Grass

Grasses are one of the widespread and important plant families in the world. Suffolk says he will brave a wintry mountain top where not even grass can grow.

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Oak

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, OAK: many strokes though with a little axe hews down and fells the hardest-timbered oak