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Oh fie! 'tis an unweeded Garden,    That grows to Seed; Things rank and gross          in Nature,    Possess it merely.

From Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Written by Mr. William Shakespeare (1736) by Anonymous

O Fye! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely.

From Shakspere, Personal Recollections by Joyce, John A.

Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely.

From Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil)

And yet from amid this excess, as from a rank and unweeded garden, were springing into flower many seeds of modern intellectual enfranchisement, as the achievements of Bruno and his contemporaries witness.

From Porzia by Rice, Cale Young

The coach set me down at the entrance to a long and unweeded avenue.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John