...different. Spring comes first with an ironic hymn to fertility: the cuckoo's voice is the voice of adultery. The cuckoo then on every tree Mocks married men, for thus sings he: Cuckoo, Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! And who has the last word in this comedy? Not spring, even so ironically...

...familiar one to Shakespeare's audiences, and thus at the end of Love's Labor's Lost the Bard wrote: The cuckoo then on every tree Mocks married men; for...thus sings he, "Cuckoo; Cuckoo, Cuckoo" — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear. Many historians surmise that the columbine flower fell out of favor...

...Spring; the 965 one maintained by the owl, th' other by the cuckoo. Ver, begin. The Song. rSPRING"! When daisies pied and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue 970 Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then on every tree Mocks married men; for thus sings...

...shall not know; For still her cheeks possess the same Which native she doth owe. Act I. Sc.ll. SPRING I When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks...sings he — Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! H When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry lacks are ploughmen's...

...SHAKSPEARE. WHEN daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady smocks all silver white, And cuckoo buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight:...sings he : • Cuckoo ! Cuckoo ! cuckoo ! O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's...