Willow

Twelfth Night, [1.5.263-271]. Viola. “Make me a willow cabin at your gate,/ And call upon my soul within the house;/ Write loyal cantons of contemned love/ And sing them loud even in the dead of night;/ Halloo your name to the reverberate hills,/ And make the babbling gossip of the air/ Cry out ‘Olivia!’ O, you should not rest/ Bewteen the elements of air and earth/ But you should pity me.”

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  1. Shakespeare’s Plants (alphabetical) « PLANTS Says:

    […] ‘the willow song,’ Othello, [4.3.28-58] (full song here); Twelfth Night, [1.5.263-271]; Merchant of Venice, [5.1.9-12]; [3.3.227-228]; Henry the Sixth, Part III, [4.1.96-100]; Much Ado […]

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