Crab tree (stock, graft, fruit)

Henry The Sixth, Part II, [3.2.210-215]. Suffolk: Blunt-witted lord, ignoble in demeanour!/ If ever lady wrong’d her lord so much,/ Thy mother took into her blameful bed/ Some stern untutor’d churl, and noble stock/ Was graft with crab-tree slip –whose fruit thou art/ and never of the Nevil’s noble race.

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

    […] costard, King Richard the Third, [1.4.155-160]; crab tree slip Henry The Sixth, Part II, [3.2.210-215]; crab-tree, King Henry VIII, [5.4.1-10]; King Henry VIII, [5.4.59-65]; costard, Love’s […]

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