King Lear_, act v, sc. 3 (38).

Shakespeare's Oats need no comment, except to note that the older
English name for Oats was Haver (_see_ "Promptorium Parvulorum," p. 372;
and "Catholicon Anglicum," p. 178, with the notes). The word was in use
in Shakespeare's time, and still survives in the northern parts of
England.

OLIVE.

(1) _Clarence._

To whom the heavens in thy nativity
Adjudged an Olive branch.

_3rd Henry VI_, act iv, sc. 6 (33).
(_See_ LAUREL.)

(2) _Alcibiades._

Bring me into your city,
And I will use the Olive with my sword.

_Timon of Athens_, act v, sc. 4 (81).

(3) _Caesar._

Prove this a prosperous day, the three-nook'd world
Shall bear the Olive freely.

_Antony and Cleopatra_, act iv, sc. 6 (5).

(4) _Rosalind._

If you will know my house
'Tis at the tuft of Olives here hard by.

_As You Like It_, act iii, sc. 5 (74).

(5) _Oliver._

Where, in the purlieus of this forest stands
A sheepcote fenced about with Olive trees?

_Ibid._, act iv, sc. 3 (77).

(6) _Viola._

I bring no overture of war, no taxation of homage; I hold the
Olive in my hand; my words are as full of peace as matter.

_Twelfth Night_, act i, sc. 5 (224).

(7) _Westmoreland._

There is not now a rebel's sword unsheath'd,
But peace puts forth her Olive everywhere.

_2nd Henry IV_, act iv, sc. 4 (86).

(8)

And peace proclaims Olives of endless age.

_Sonnet_ cvii.

There is no certain record by which we can determine when the Olive
tree was first introduced into England. Miller gives 1648 as the
earliest date he could discover, at which time it was grown in the
Oxford Botanic Garden. But I have no doubt it was cultivated long before
that. Parkinson knew it as an English tree in 1640, for he says: "It
flowereth in the beginning of summer in the warmer countries, but very
late _with us_; the fruite ripeneth in autumne in Spain, &c., but
seldome _with us_" ("Herball," 1640). Gerard had an Oleaster in his
garden in 1596, which Mr. Jackson considers to have been the Ole