balm the oil of consecration:
“wash the balm off from an anointed king,”
RICHARD II., iii. 2. 55
;
“I wash away my balm,”
RICHARD II., iv. 1. 207
;
“Be drops of balm to sanctify thy head,”
2 HENRY IV., iv. 5. 115
;
“'Tis not the balm,”
HENRY V., iv. 1. 256
;
“Thy balm wash'd off,”
3 HENRY VI., iii. 1. 17.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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