Adonis'
“gardens That one day bloom'd and fruitful were the next,”
1 HENRY VI., i. 6. 6.
“The proverb alluded to seems always to have been used in a
bad sense, for things which make a fair show for a few days, and then wither away; but the
[unknown] author of this play, desirous of making a show of his learning, without
considering its propriety, has made the Dauphin apply it as an encomium. There is a very
good account of it in Erasmus's Adagia”
(BLAKEWAY)
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A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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