Both Uses of
wither
in
Love's Labour's Lost
- Such short-liv'd wits do wither as they grow.†
Scene 2.1 *
- A wither'd hermit, five-score winters worn, Might shake off fifty, looking in her eye: Beauty doth varnish age, as if new-born, And gives the crutch the cradle's infancy.†
Scene 4.3
Definition:
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(wither) to shrivel (wrinkle and contract -- usually from lack of water)
or:
to become weaker; or feel humiliated