DAISIES

SONG OF SPRING

When DAISIES pied, and violets blue,

And lady-smocks all silver-white . . .

—Love’s Labour’s Lost [Act V, sc. 2]

OPHELIA

There’s a DAISY.

—Hamlet [Act IV, sc. 5]

GERTRUDE

There with fantastic garlands did she come

Of crow-flowers, nettles, DAISIES,

and long purples . . .

—Hamlet [Act IV, sc. 7]

LUCIUS

Let us

Find out the prettiest DAISIED plot we can,

And make him, with our pikes and partizans,

A grave.

—Cymbeline [Act IV, sc. 2]

Her other faire hand was

On the green coverlet, whose perfect white

Show’d like an APRIL DAISY

on the grass . . .

—Lucrece

SONG [BOY]

DAISIES, smell-less yet most quaint . . .

—Two Noble Kinsmen [Act I, sc. 1]