Cymbeline, [2.2.11-17]. Iachimo. “The crickets sing, and man’s o’er-labor’d sense/ Repairs itself by rest. Our Tarquin thus/ Did softly press the rushes ere he waken’d/ The chastity he wounded. Cytherea/ How bravely thou becom’st thy bed, fresh lily,/ And whiter than the sheets! That I might touch!/ But kiss, one kiss!”
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May 1, 2009 at 6:32 pm
[…] Lily: “Lily fingers,” Venus and Adonis, [223-228]; “A lily prison’d in a jail of snow,/ Or ivory in an alabaster band,/ So white a friend engirts so white a foe” [361-364]; in reference again to Adonis’ flesh, [1051-1056]; lilies that fester, Sonnets, [94]; compare with pale hand, Sonnets, [99]; lily-livered, King Lear, [1.2.14-24]; Midsummer Nights Dream, [3.1.88-92]; Two Gentlemen of Verona, [2.4.19-20]; Two Gentlemen of Verona, [4.148-155]; Midsummer Night’s Dream, [5.1.325-338]; lily beds, Troilus and Cressida, [3.2.7-12]; lily-livered, Macbeth, [5.3.14-17]; King Henry VIII, [3.1.148-153]; King Henry VIII, [5.5.57-63]; King John, [3.1.51-55]; King John, [4.2.9-16]; The Rape of Lucrece, [71-77]; The Rape of Lucrece [386-389]; The Rape of Lucrece, [477-482]; The Passionate Pilgrim, [7.1-6]; Love’s Labor’s Lost, [5.2.350-357]; flower-de-luce, The Winter’s Tale, [4.4.109-135]; Titus Andronicus, [2.4.44-47]; Titus Andronicus, [3.1.110-113]; Cymbeline, [4.2.203-205]; Cymbeline, [2.2.11-17]. […]