Note 71:1 — CYPRESS.[71:1]
Reading edition
Cypress, or Cyprus (for the word is spelt differently in the different editions), is also mentioned by Shakespeare in the following—
(1) Clown. In sad Cypress let me be laid.
Twelfth Night, act ii, sc. 4.
(2) Olivia. To one of your receiving Enough is shown; and Cyprus, not a bosom, Hides my poor heart.
Ibid., act iii, sc. 1.
(3) Autolycus. Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus, black as e'er was crow.
Winter's Tale, act iv, sc. 3.
But in all these cases the Cypress is not the name of the plant, but is the fabric which we now call crape, the "sable stole of Cypre's lawn" of Milton's "Penseroso."