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Oak: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

The unwedgeable and gnarled oak.— M.M. ii. 2

I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds— J. C. i. 3

Have riv'd the knotty oaks. -

Aged

Under an oak whose boughs were moss'd with age, And high top bald with dry antiquity.— A. Y. iv. 3

Daths

No, not an oath: If not the face of men, The sufferance of our souls, the time's abuse, - If these be motives weak, break off betimes, And every man hence to his idle bed; So let high-sighted tyranny range on, Till each man drop by lottery: But if these, As I am sure they do, bear fire enough To kindle cowards, and to steel with valour The melting spirits of women; then, countrymen. What need we any spur, but our own cause, To prick us to redress? what other bond, Than secret Romans, that have spoke the word And will not palter? and what other oath Than honesty to honesty engag'd, That this shall be, or we will fall for it? Swear priests, and cowards, and men cautelous, Old feeble carrions, and such suffering souls That welcome wrongs; unto bad causes swear Such creatures as men doubt; but do not stain The even virtue of our enterprise.