...one of your receiving Enough is shown : a Cyprus, not a bosom, Hides my heart. Twelfth-Night, iii 1. Lawn as white as driven snow; Cyprus black as e'er was crow. Winter's Tale, iv. 3. DAFF. 83 D. To DAFF. To doff; to put off; to lay aside. Every day thou daffest...

...of haberdashery, of which Shakespeare has given us a specimen, as regards the English version — " Lawn, as white as driven snow; Cyprus, black as e'er was crow," &c. Margery lay still, and listened in silence to all these new sounds. At length she rose and dressed...

...Come away, come away, Death, And in sad Cypress let me be laid." Winler's Tale, Aet, iv., sc. 3 : " Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus black as e'er was crow." Also Drummond's Sonncts (ed. 1616, p. 1) : " While Cynthia in purest Cypress clad, The Latmian shepherd...

...sense. It is often distinguished from cyprus, as in Autolycus' song, Winters Tale, IV. iv. 220 : " Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus black as e'er was crow. " " Cobweb lawn, or the very finest lawn," says Nares, " is often mentioned with Cyprus, and, what...

...from pure affectation. 152 Lawn. French, "linon;" Latin, "linum," probably a fine •white material, " Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus black as e'er was crow. " — Winter's Tale, iv. 4, 220. Though Milton has — " And sable stole of Cipres lawn." — Penseroso,...

...thus in Shakespeare's Winter's Tale the pedlar Autolycus comes in with his wares (IV. 4) singing— " Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus black as e'er was crow." But we have also the spellings "cypress," " cypres," " cipresse" " cipres" &c., as if all recollection...

...females in the old garden-house yonder— but how to address them ?— Stay — Will Shakspeare, be my friend in need ! I will give them a taste of Autolycus." He then sang, with a good voice, and becoming audacity, the popular playhouse ditty, — " Lawn as white as...

...them than you 'd think, sister. PER. Ay, good brother, or go about to think. Enter ADTOLYCOS, singing. Lawn, as white as driven snow; Cyprus, black as e'er was crow: Gloves, as sweet as damask roses; •S'w- ""**• ' Masks for faces, and for noses; Bugle-bracelet, necklace-amber, Perfume for a lady's...

...play-house ditty very popular in the days of merry old England : — Lawn as white as driven snow, Cypress black as e'er was crow, Gloves as sweet as damask roses, Masks for faces and for noaes. A 3 Yet the bnstle of life is not so great us to still the piteous cries of a l,oor Hindoo matron,...

...probably derived from the old French word crespe, crisped or curled (modern crepe, whence crape). ' Lawn as white as driven snow, Cyprus black as e'er was crow.' Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, к. 4. The cypress tree (Lat. cupressus] was anciently used at funerals,...