Seona Anderson 30/11/2023 Seona Anderson 30/11/2023

Thistle

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, THISTLE: nothing teems but hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs, losing both beauty and utility.

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Seona Anderson 29/11/2023 Seona Anderson 29/11/2023

ASPEN

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, ASPEN: O, had that monster seen those lily hands tremble like aspen leaves upon a lute.

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Seona Anderson 28/11/2023 Seona Anderson 28/11/2023

Chestnut

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, CHESTNUT: a sailor’s wife had chestnuts in her lap and she munched and munched and munched.

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Seona Anderson 27/11/2023 Seona Anderson 27/11/2023

Walnut

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, WALNUT: As jealous as Ford, that searched a hollow walnut for his wife’s leman. #shakespearespecies #folio400 #NationalTreeWeek

Seona Anderson 26/11/2023 Seona Anderson 26/11/2023

Salmon

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, SALMON: There is a river in Macedon, and there is also, moreover, a river in Monmouth… and there is salmons in both. #shakespearespecies #folio400

Seona Anderson 25/11/2023 Seona Anderson 25/11/2023

PINE

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, PINE: You may as well forbid the mountain pines to wag their high tops and to make no noise when they are fretten with the gusts of heaven. #shakespearespecies #folio400

Seona Anderson 24/11/2023 Seona Anderson 24/11/2023

Chameleon

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, CHAMELEON: though the chameleon love can feed on air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals

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Seona Anderson 23/11/2023 Seona Anderson 23/11/2023

Pelican

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, PELICAN: And, like the kind life-rend’ring Pelican, repast them with my blood. #shakespearespecies #folio400

Seona Anderson 22/11/2023 Seona Anderson 22/11/2023

ADDER

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, ADDER: Or is the adder better than the eel because his painted skin contents the eye? #shakespearespecies #folio400

Seona Anderson 21/11/2023 Seona Anderson 21/11/2023

Caviar

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, CAVIAR (Sturgeon): “the play, I remember, pleased not the million: ‘twas caviare to the general.”

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Seona Anderson 20/11/2023 Seona Anderson 20/11/2023

Tiger

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, TIGER: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger. #shakespearespecies #folio400

Seona Anderson 19/11/2023 Seona Anderson 19/11/2023

BAT

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, BATS: Some war with reremice for their leathern wings to make my small elves coats #shakespeare species #folio400

Seona Anderson 18/11/2023 Seona Anderson 18/11/2023

Gossamers

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, GOSSAMERS (Spiders): a lover may bestride the gossamers that idles in the wanton summer air, and yet not fall, so light is vanity. #shakespearespecies #folio400

Seona Anderson 17/11/2023 Seona Anderson 17/11/2023

Hazelnut

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, HAZEL: her chariot is an empty hazelnut… she gallops night by night through lovers’ brain and then they dream of love.

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Seona Anderson 16/11/2023 Seona Anderson 16/11/2023

Jacob Sheep

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, JACOB SHEEP: that all the eanlings which were streaked and pied should fall as Jacob’s hire. #shakespearespecies #folio400

Seona Anderson 15/11/2023 Seona Anderson 15/11/2023

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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Seona Anderson 14/11/2023 Seona Anderson 14/11/2023

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

Seona Anderson 13/11/2023 Seona Anderson 13/11/2023

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.

Seona Anderson 12/11/2023 Seona Anderson 12/11/2023

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.

Seona Anderson 11/11/2023 Seona Anderson 11/11/2023

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