...O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that, frighted, thou let'st fall * Gillyflowers. t Because. Prom Dis's waggon ! daffodils,' That come before the swallow...primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phcebus in his strength, a malady Most incident to maids ; bold oxlips, and The crown-imperial ; lilies...

...that might Become your time of day. O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that, frighted, thou lett'st fall From Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before...; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can hehold Bright Phoebus in his strength, a malady Most incident to maids ; bold oxlips, and The crown-imperial...

...Act iv., Scene ill. 1 Patterson's " Natural History of the Insects mentioned in Shakspeare's Plays." From Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the...than the lids of Juno's eyes, Or Cytherea's breath."* Of all the objects of creation it is in flowers that Shakspere's genius appears most to revel and luxuriate...

...day ; and yours, and yours, That wear upon your virgin branehes yet, Your maidenheads growing : — 0 Proserpina ! For the flowers now, that, frighted,...behold Bright Phoebus in his strength, a malady Most ineident to maids ; bold oxlips, and The crown imperial ; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being...

...shore, that o'er his wave-worn basis bow'd As stooping to relieve him. 1 — ii. 1. 91. Flowers. 0 Proserpina, For the flowers now, that, frighted, thou...ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength ; bold oxlips, and The crown-imperial ; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one ! 0, these...

...and yours, and yours, That wear upon your virgin branches yet „ Your maidenheads growing : — О his ? Why, my lord of York commends the plot, and the general course of the action. 'Zounds ! and Phcebus in his strength, a malady Moat incident to maids ; bold oxlips, and The crown imperial; lilies...

...sweet Favonius passed over them — " O Proserpine, For the flowers now, that, frighted, thou let>t fall From Dis's waggon : daffodils, That come before...ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength. .... Bold oxlips and The crown imperial,"; lilies of all kinds, To make you garlands of " What, then,...

...Your maidenheads growing :—0 Proserpina ! ?or the flowers now, that, frighted, thou let'st fall ?rom wa Phœbus in his strength, a malady Most incident to maids ; bold oxlips, and The crown imperial ; lilies...

...come before the swallow dares, and take | The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim, j But sweeter the true cause the false way. It is not a confident brow, nor the throng of words that come crown imperial ; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one. O ! these I lack, To make you garlands...

...frighted, thou lett'st fall From Die's wagon ! — daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets, dim,...primroses, That die unmarried ere they can behold Bright Phcebus in his strength, — a malady Most incident to maids ; bold oxlips, and The crown-imperial...