Part 1 — CORN.
Reading edition
(1) Gonzalo. No use of metal, Corn, or wine, or oil.
Tempest, act ii, sc. 1 (154).
(2) Duke. Our Corn's to reap, for yet our tithe's to sow.
Measure for Measure, act iv, sc. 1 (76).
(3) Titania. Playing on pipes of Corn, (67)
* * * * *
The green Corn Hath rotted ere his youth attained a beard.
Midsummer Night's Dream, act ii, sc. 1 (94).
(4) K. Edward. What valiant foemen, like to autumn's Corn, Have we mowed down in tops of all their pride!
3rd Henry VI, act v, sc. 7 (3).
(5) Pucelle. Talk like the vulgar sort of market men That come to gather money for their Corn.
1st Henry VI, act iii, sc. 2 (4).
Poor market folks that come to sell their Corn.
Ibid. (14).
Good morrow, gallants! want ye Corn for bread?
Ibid. (41).
Burgundy. I trust, ere long, to choke thee with thine own, And make thee curse the harvest of that Corn.
Ibid. (46).
(6) Duchess. Why droops my lord like over-ripened Corn Hanging the head at Ceres' plenteous load?
2nd Henry VI, act i, sc. 2. (1).
(7) Warwick. His well-proportioned beard made rough and ragged Like to the summer's Corn by tempest lodged.
2nd Henry VI, act iii, sc. 2 (175).
(8) Mowbray. We shall be winnow'd with so rough a wind That even our Corn shall seem as light as chaff.
2nd Henry IV, act iv, sc. 1 (194).
(9) Macbeth. Though bladed Corn be lodged and trees blown down.
Macbeth, act iv, sc. 1 (55).
(10) Longaville. He weeds the Corn, and still lets grow the weeding.
Love's Labour's Lost, act i, sc. 1 (96).
(11) Biron. Allons! allons! sowed Cockle reap'd no Corn.
Ibid., act iv, sc 3 (383).
(12) Edgar. Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepherd? Thy sheep be in the Corn.
King Lear, act iii, sc. 6 (43).
(13) Cordelia. All the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining Corn.
Ibid., act iv, sc. 4 (6).
(14) Demetrius. First thrash the Corn, then after burn the straw.
Titus Andronicus, act ii, sc. 3 (123).
(15) Marcus. O, let me teach you how to knit again This scattered Corn into one mutual sheaf.
Ibid., act v, sc. 3 (70).
(16) Pericles. Our ships are stored with Corn to make your needy bread.
Pericles, act i, sc. 4 (95).
(17) Cleon. Your grace that fed my country with your Corn.
Ibid., act iii, sc. 3 (18).
(18) Menenius. For Corn at their own rates.
Coriolanus, act i, sc. 1 (193).
Marcus. The gods sent not Corn for the rich men only.
Ibid. (211).
Marcus. The Volsces have much Corn.
Ibid. (253).
Citizen. We stood up about the Corn.
Ibid., act ii, sc. 3 (16).
Brutus. Corn was given them gratis.
Ibid., act iii, sc. 1 (43).
Coriolanus. Tell me of Corn!
Ibid. (61).
The Corn of the storehouse gratis.
Ibid. (125).
The Corn was not our recompense.
Ibid. (120).
This kind of service Did not deserve Corn gratis.
Coriolanus, act iii, sc. 1 (124).
(19) Cranmer. I am right glad to catch this good occasion Most thoroughly to be winnow'd, where my chaff And Corn shall fly asunder.
Henry VIII, act v, sc. 1 (110).
(20) Cranmer. Her foes shake like a field of beaten Corn And hang their heads with sorrow.
Ibid., act v, sc. 4 (32).
(21) K. Richard. We'll make foul weather with despised tears; Our sighs and they shall lodge the summer Corn.
Richard II, act iii, sc. 3 (161).
(22) Arcite. And run Swifter then winde upon a field of Corne (Curling the wealthy eares) never flew.
Two Noble Kinsmen, act ii, sc. 3 (91).
(23) As Corn o'ergrown by weeds, so heedful fear Is almost choked by unresisted lust.
Lucrece (281).
I have made these quotations as short as possible. They could not be omitted, but they require no comment.