The Only Use of
progeny
in
A Midsummer Night's Dream
- hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose; And on old Hyem's thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set: the spring, the summer, The childing autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the maz'd world, By their increase, now knows not which is which: And this same progeny of evils comes From our debate, from our dissension: We are their parents and original.†
Scene 2.1
Definition:
someone's child or children
or less commonly: anything that develops from something else
or less commonly: anything that develops from something else