The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare - Part 21
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We shall be winnow'd with so rough a wind That even our Corn shall seem as light as chaff.

_2nd Henry IV_, act iv, sc. 1 (194).

(9) _Macbeth._

Though bladed Corn be lodged and trees blown down.

_Macbeth_, act iv, sc. 1 (55).

(10) _Longaville._

He weeds the Corn, and still lets grow the weeding.

_Love's Labour's Lost_, act i, sc. 1 (96).

(11) _Biron._

Allons! allons! sowed c.o.c.kle reap'd no Corn.

_Ibid._, act iv, sc 3 (383).

(12) _Edgar._

Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepherd?

Thy sheep be in the Corn.

_King Lear_, act iii, sc. 6 (43).

(13) _Cordelia._

All the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining Corn.

_Ibid._, act iv, sc. 4 (6).

(14) _Demetrius._

First thrash the Corn, then after burn the straw.

_t.i.tus Andronicus_, act ii, sc. 3 (123).

(15) _Marcus._

O, let me teach you how to knit again This scattered Corn into one mutual sheaf.

_Ibid._, act v, sc. 3 (70).

(16) _Pericles._

Our ships are stored with Corn to make your needy bread.

_Pericles_, act i, sc. 4 (95).

(17) _Cleon._

Your grace that fed my country with your Corn.

_Ibid._, act iii, sc. 3 (18).

(18) _Menenius._

For Corn at their own rates.

_Coriola.n.u.s_, act i, sc. 1 (193).

_Marcus._

The G.o.ds sent not Corn for the rich men only.

_Ibid._ (211).

_Marcus._

The Volsces have much Corn.

_Ibid._ (253).

_Citizen._

We stood up about the Corn.

_Ibid._, act ii, sc. 3 (16).

_Brutus._

Corn was given them gratis.