Twelfth Night, [3.1.117-122]. Olivia. “What might you think?/ Have you not set mine honor at the stake/ and baited it with all th’unmuzzled thoughts/ That tyrannous heart can think? To one of your receiving/ Enough is shown; a cypress, not a bosom,/ Hides my heart. So, let me hear you speak.”
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Riverside notes that the ‘cypress’ named here is not the tree but ‘a thin, gauzelike, black material.’ The tree has been mentioned in the play already at [2.4.52].
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