SHAKSPEARE 'AND THE DAISY. 



In Love's Labour's Lost, act v., scene 2 : 



" Where daisies pied * and violets blue 

 Do paint the meadows with delight. " 



Again, in Hamlet, act iv., scene 7 : 



" There with fantastic garlands did she come 

 Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples." 



FIG. 33. 



And, lastly, in Hamlet, act iv., scene 5 : 



" There 's a daisy ; I would give you some violets, but they withered all 

 when my father died." 



In Milton there are but two allusions. In the Masque of 



Comus ; 



"By dimpled brook and fountain-brim, 

 The wood-nymphs, deck'd with daisies trim, 

 Their merry wakes and pastimes keep." 



* " Pied," that is, vari-coloured, motley-coated. 



