(13) _Montano._

What ribs of Oak, when mountains melt on them, Can hold the mortise?

_Oth.e.l.lo_, act ii, sc. 1 (7).

(14) _Iago._

She that so young could give out such a seeming To seel her father's eyes up close as Oak.

_Ibid._, act iii, sc. 3 (209).

(15) _Marcius._

He that depends Upon your favours swims with fins of lead And hews down Oaks with rushes.

_Coriola.n.u.s_, act i, sc. 1 (183).

(16) _Arviragus._

To thee the Reed is as the Oak.

_Cymbeline_, act iv, sc. 2 (267).

(17) _Lear._

Oak-cleaving thunderbolts.

_King Lear_, act iii, sc. 2 (5).

(18) _Nathaniel._

Though to myself forsworn, to thee I'll faithful prove; Those thoughts to me were Oaks, to thee like Osiers bow'd.

_Love's Labour's Lost_, act iv, sc. 2 (111).

[The same lines in the "Pa.s.sionate Pilgrim."]

(19) _Nestor._

When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted Oaks.

_Troilus and Cressida_, act i, sc. 3 (49).

(20) _Volumnia._

To a cruel war I sent him, from whence he returned, his brows bound with Oak.

_Coriola.n.u.s_, act i, sc. 3 (14).

_Volumnia._

He comes the third time home with the Oaken garland.

_Ibid._, act ii, sc. 1 (137).

_Cominius._

He proved best man i' the field, and for his meed Was brow-bound with the Oak.

_Ibid._, act ii, sc. 2 (101).

_2nd Senator._

The worthy fellow is our general; he's the rock, the Oak, not to be wind-shaken.

_Ibid._, act v, sc. 2 (116).

_Volumnia._

To charge thy sulphur with a bolt That should but rive an Oak.

_Ibid._, act v, sc. 3 (152).

(21) _Casca._

I have seen tempests when the scolding winds Have rived the knotty Oaks.

_Julius Caesar_, act i, sc. 3 (5).

(22) _Celia._

I found him under a tree like a dropped Acorn.

_Rosalind._

It may well be called Jove's tree, when it drops forth such fruit.