| (1) | Gonzalo. | No use of metal, Corn, or wine, or oil. |
| Tempest, act ii, sc. 1 (154). |
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| (2) | Duke. | Our Corn's to reap, for yet our tithe's to sow. |
| Measure for Measure, act iv, sc. 1 (76). |
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| (3) | Titania. | Playing on pipes of Corn, (67) |
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| The green Corn
Hath rotted ere his youth attained a beard. |
| Midsummer Night's Dream, act ii, sc. 1 (94). |
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| (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). |
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| (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). |
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| Poor market folks that come to sell their Corn. |
| Ibid. (14). |
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| Good morrow, gallants! want ye Corn for bread? |
| Ibid. (41). |
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| Burgundy. | I trust, ere long, to choke thee with thine own,
And make thee curse the harvest of that Corn. |
| Ibid. (46). |
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| (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). |
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| (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). |
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| (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). |
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| (9) | Macbeth. | Though bladed Corn be lodged and trees blown down. |
| Macbeth, act iv, sc. 1 (55). |
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| (10) | Longaville. | He weeds the Corn, and still lets grow the weeding. |
| Love's Labour's Lost, act i, sc. 1 (96). |
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| (11) | Biron. | Allons! allons! sowed Cockle reap'd no Corn. |
| Ibid., act iv, sc 3 (383). |
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| (12) | Edgar. | Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepherd?
Thy sheep be in the Corn. |
| King Lear, act iii, sc. 6 (43). |
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| (13) | Cordelia. | All the idle weeds that grow
In our sustaining Corn. |
| Ibid., act iv, sc. 4 (6). |
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| (14) | Demetrius. | First thrash the Corn, then after burn the straw. |
| Titus Andronicus, act ii, sc. 3 (123). |
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| (15) | Marcus. | O, let me teach you how to knit again
This scattered Corn into one mutual sheaf. |
| Ibid., act v, sc. 3 | (70). |
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| (16) | Pericles. | Our ships are stored with Corn to make your needy bread. |
| Pericles, act i, sc. 4 (95). |
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| (17) | Cleon. | Your grace that fed my country with your Corn. |
| Ibid., act iii, sc. 3 (18). |
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| (18) | Menenius. | For Corn at their own rates. |
| Coriolanus, act i, sc. 1 (193). |
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| Marcus. | The gods sent not Corn for the rich men only. |
| Ibid. (211). |
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| Marcus. | The Volsces have much Corn. |
| Ibid. (253). |
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| Citizen. | We stood up about the Corn. |
| Ibid., act ii, sc. 3 (16). |
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| Brutus. | Corn was given them gratis. |
| Ibid., act iii, sc. 1 (43). |
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| Coriolanus. | Tell me of Corn! |
| Ibid. (61). |
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| The Corn of the storehouse gratis. |
| Ibid. (125). |
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| The Corn was not our recompense. |
| Ibid. (120). |
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| This kind of service
Did not deserve Corn gratis. |
| Coriolanus, act iii, sc. 1 (124). |
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| (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). |
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| (20) | Cranmer. | Her foes shake like a field of beaten Corn
And hang their heads with sorrow. |
| Ibid., act v, sc. 4 (32). |
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| (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). |
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| (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). |
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| (23) | | As Corn o'ergrown by I have made these quotations as short as possible. They could not be omitted, but they require no comment.
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