Vulgar words in The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare (Page 1)
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The Bastard Balm (_Melittis melissophyllum_) is a handsome native plant, found sparingly in Devonshire, Hampshire, and a few other places, and is well worth growing wherever it can be induced to grow; but it is a very capricious plant, and is apparently not fond of garden cultivation.
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_Pistol._ Where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths unswept, There pinch the maids as blue as Bilberry-- Our radiant Queen hates sluts and sluttery.
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(1) _Perdita._ The fairest flowers o' the season Are our Carnations and streak'd Gillyvors, Which some call Nature's bastards.
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(2) _Polyxenes._ Then make your garden rich in Gillyvors, And do not call them bastards.
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(7) _Luciana._ If thou art changed to aught, 'tis to an ass.
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[167:3] Spenser spoke of it-- "With love juice stained the Mulberie, The fruit that dewes the poet's braine."
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(4) _Enobarbus._ Look, they weep, And I, an ass, am Onion-eyed.
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(31) _Bastard._ My face so thin, That in mine ear I durst not stick a Rose.
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(6) _Bastard._ A Rush will be a beam To hang thee on.
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(18) _Bastard._ I am amazed, methinks, and lose my way Among the Thorns and dangers of this world.
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The word has an interest from its biblical associations, though modern scholars decide that the Zizania is wrongly translated Tares, and that it is rather a bastard Wheat or Darnel.
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(4) _Perdita._ The fairest flowers o' the season Are our Carnations and streak'd Gillyvors, Which some call nature's bastards: of that kind Our rustic garden's barren; I care not To get slips of them.
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_Polixenes._ Then make your garden rich in Gillyvors, And do not call them bastards.
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_Cotgrave._ Glayeul bastard; _Sedge_, _wild flags_, _&c._ SENNA.