WILD FLOWERS. 
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DAFFODIL. / 
When daffodils begin to peer, 
With heigh ! the doxy over the dale, 
Why then comes in the sweet o’ the year ; 
For the red blood reigns in the winter’s pale. 
Perdita. . . . daffodils, 
That come before the swallow dares, and take 
The winds of March with beauty; 
A Winter’s Tale, Act iv. Scene 2 and Scene 3. 
PRIMROSE. ' v 
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Perdita . . . . pale primroses, 
That die unmarried, ere they can behold 
Bright Phoebus in his strength, 
A Winter’s Tale, Act iv. Scene 3. 
Hernia. And in the wood, where often you and I 
Upon faint primrose beds were wont to lie, 
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act i. Scene 1. 
Arviragus. . . . thou shalt not lack 
The flower that’s like thy face, pale primrose; 
Cymbeline, Act iv. Scene 2. 
Q. Margaret . Look pale as primrose 
King Henry VI., Part II. Act iii. Scene 2. 1 
Porter. I had thought to have let in some of all 
professions, that go the prinj^ose way to the everlast¬ 
ing bonfire.— 
Macbeth, Act ii. Scene 2. 
