Fruit

“My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.”

“The kindly fruits of the earth.”

“Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen.”

“Eve, with her basket, wasUnder the trees.”

“Ye shall know them by their fruits.Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?”

“Each treeTo pluck and eat.”

“But the fruit that can fall without shaking,Indeed is too mellow for me.”

“Thus do I live, from pleasure quite debarred,Mature, john-apple, nor the downy peach.”

“The strawberry grows underneath the nettleNeighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.”

“Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe.”

“Before thee stands this fair Hesperides,With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touched.”

“The ripest fruit first falls.”

“Superfluous branchesWe lop away, that bearing boughs may live.”

“The barberry and currant must escapeThough her small clusters imitate the grape.”

“Let other lands, exulting, gleanThe cluster from the vine.”

“A little peach in an orchard grew,—It grew.”

“As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.”

“The ripest peach is highest on the tree.”

“Now, Sire," quod she, "for aught that may bityde,To eten of the smalle peres grene.”

“The great white pear-tree dropped with dew from leavesAnd blossom, under heavens of happy blue.”

“A pear-tree planted nigh:And hung with dangling pears was every bough.”