Fruit. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Fruit


Of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Genesis, Chap. ii. Ver. 17.	1
In the day we eat of this fair fruit, our doom is, we shall die! Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book IX.	2
The tree is known by his fruit. St. Matthew, Chap. xii. Verse 33; St. Luke, Chap. vi. Verse 44.	3
To taste the fruit of yon celestial tree, Or die in the adventure. Shakespeare.—Pericles, Act I. Scene 1.	4
Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe. Shakespeare.—Othello, Act II. Scene 3. (Iago to Roderigo.)	5