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Fennel

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, IV, 5:
OPHELIA: There's fennel for you, and columbines: there's rue for you; and here's some for me: we may call it herb-grace o' Sundays: O you must wear your rue with a difference. There's a daisy: I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died: they say he made a good end,--[Sings] For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.

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Fig

King Henry VI, II, 3:
HORNER: Let it come, i' faith, and I'll pledge you all; and a fig for Peter!

King John, II, 1:
CONSTANCE: Do, child, go to it grandam, child: Give grandam kingdom, and it grandam will Give it a plum, a cherry, and a fig: There's a good grandam.

King Henry IV, part 2, V, 3:
PISTOL: A foutre for thine office! Sir John, thy tender lambkin now is king; Harry the Fifth's the man. I speak the truth: When Pistol lies, do this; and fig me, like The bragging Spaniard.

King Henry V, III, 6:
PISTOL: The fig of Spain!

Othello, The Moor of Venice, I, 3:
IAGO: Virtue! a fig! 'tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.

Anthony and Cleopatra, V, 2:
FIRST GUARD: This is an aspic's trail: and these fig-leaves Have slime upon them, such as the aspic leaves Upon the caves of Nile.