Shakespeare's 'Honey-Stalks'

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Barber, Ros. 2015. Shakespeare's 'Honey-Stalks'. Notes and Queries, 62(1), pp. 92-93. ISSN 1471-6941 [Article]

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A reference to 'honey-stalks' in Titus Andronicus has been glossed as Warwickshire dialect for white clover by Shakespeare's editors since the 18th century, but evidence from husbandry books of the period suggest it is a compound nonce word for vegetation saturated with honey dew.

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https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gju225