Ocupation: Poet
Life: 1564 - April 23, 1616
Birthday: 1564
Death: April 23
The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs, Losing both beauty and utility.
source: 'Henry V' (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. 44
topic: Weed, Green, Docks, Scythes, Thistles, Clovers, Mead, Burrs