l'envoy

O sir, Plantain, a plain Plantain! no l'envoy, no l'envoy; no salve, sir, but a Plantain.

The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

Or shall we read, _no enigma, no riddle, no l'envoy -- in the_ vale, _sir -- O, sir. plantain_.

Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746

No enigma, no riddle, no l'envoy; no salve in the mail, sir: O, sir, plantain, a plain plantain! no l'envoy, no l'envoy; no salve, sir, but a plantain!

Love's Labour's Lost 1594

Do the wise think them other? is not l'envoy a salve?

Love's Labour's Lost 1594

Some enigma, some riddle: come, thy l'envoy; begin.

Love's Labour's Lost 1594

Now will I begin your moral, and do you follow with my l'envoy.

Love's Labour's Lost 1594

Let me see; a fat l'envoy; ay, that's a fat goose.

Love's Labour's Lost 1594

Then the boy's fat l'envoy, the goose that you bought;

Love's Labour's Lost 1594

Doth the inconsiderate take salve for l'envoy, and the word l'envoy for a salve?

Love's Labour's Lost 1594

O, marry me to one Frances: I smell some l'envoy, some goose, in this.

Love's Labour's Lost 1594