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Chapter 50

Daisies

(1) Song of Spring. When Daisies pied, and Violets, &c.

Love's Labour's Lost, act v, sc. 2 (904). (See Cuckoo-buds.)

(2) Lucius. Let us
Find out the prettiest Daisied plot we can,
And make him with our pikes and partizans
A grave.

Cymbeline, act iv, sc. 2 (397).

(3) Ophelia. There's a Daisy.

Hamlet, act iv, sc. 5 (183).

(4) Queen. There with fantastic garlands did she come Of Crow-flowers, Nettles, Daisies, and Long Purples.

Ibid., act iv, sc. 7 (169).

(5) Without the bed her other faire hand was
On the green coverlet; whose perfect white
Show'd like an April Daisy on the Grass.

Lucrece (393).

(6) Daisies smel-lesse, yet most quaint.

Two Noble Kinsmen, Introd. song.

See Appendix. I., p. .