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A Midsummer Night's Dream, a bank of wild thyme

Author: William Shakespeare Year: 1600 Length: 437 characters Difficulty: demanding Public domain

Flower names and older verb forms follow each other closely, which trains reading ahead as well as accuracy.

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine. There sleeps Titania sometime of the night, Lull’d in these flowers with dances and delight; And there the snake throws her enamell’d skin, Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in. And with the juice of this I’ll streak her eyes, And make her full of hateful fantasies.

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Oberon speaks these lines in A Midsummer Night's Dream, printed in quarto in 1600 and usually dated to the middle of the 1590s. The list of plants, from oxlips to musk roses, is one of the fullest garden descriptions in the plays. Botanists have used it to argue about which flowers grew in Warwickshire hedges. Project Gutenberg carries the complete works.

What it trainsFlower names and older verb forms follow each other closely, which trains reading ahead as well as accuracy.

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Oberon speaks these lines in A Midsummer Night's Dream, printed in quarto in 1600 and usually dated to the middle of the 1590s. The list of plants, from oxlips to musk roses, is one of the fullest garden descriptions in the plays. Botanists have used it to argue about which flowers grew in Warwickshire hedges. Project Gutenberg carries the complete works.

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