14 NA TURAL HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE. 
OX-LIP. 
, Oberon. Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows; 
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act ii. Scene i. 
Perdita. . . . bold ox-lips, and 
The crown imperial ; 
A Winter’s Tale, Act iv. Scene 3. 
DAISY. 
1 Ophelia. There’s a daisy :— 
Queen. Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long- 
purples, 
Hamlet, Act iv. Scene 5 and Scene 7. 
When daisies pied, and violets blue, 
Do paint the meadows 
Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act v. Scene 2. 
Lucius. ... let us 
Find out the prettiest daisied plot we can, 
And make him with our pikes and partisans 
A grave. 
Cymbeline, Act iv. Scene 2. 
Without the bed her other fair hand was, 
On the green coverlet; whose perfect white 
Show’d like an April daisy on the grass, 
The Rape of Lucrece. 
