Cuckoo, cuckoo : O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks, The cuckoo then, on every tree,... The Works of Shakespeare - Page 119by William Shakespeare - 1899Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1797 - 644 pages
...Ver, begin. SONG. Spring. When daifies pied, and violets blue, And lady-fmocks all Jilver-iubite , And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows...cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men, for thus fings be. Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — 0 word of fear ', Unpleafmg to a married ear .' II. When Jhepherds... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 424 pages
...maintain'd by the owl, the other by the cuckoo. Ver, begin. SONG. Spring. When daisies pied, and vioiets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds...tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — 0 word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! II. When Shepherds pipe on oaten... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 556 pages
...Hiems, winter; this Ver, the spring; the one maintained by the owl, the other by the cuckoo. Ver, begin. SONG. Spring. When daisies pied, and violets blue,...Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, vn every tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word of fear, Unpleasing... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 452 pages
...Hiems, winter; this Ver, the spring; the one maintain'd by the owl, the other by the cuckoo. Ver, begin. SONG. Spring. When daisies pied, and violets blue,...tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo,—0 word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! II. JVhen shepherds pipe on oaten straws... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 518 pages
...SONG. Spring. When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds'1 of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight,...tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — 0 word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! II. When shepherds pipe on oaten... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1806 - 414 pages
...maintain'd by the owl, the other by the cuckoo. Ver, begin. SONG. Spring.67 When daisies pied, and videts blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds...tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo. — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! ii. When shepherds pipe on oaten... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1807 - 318 pages
...SONG. Spring. When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver white, And cuckoo buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight,...tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear .' II. When shepherds pipe on oaten... | |
| George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 472 pages
...end of " Love's Labour Lost."] WHEN daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver white, And cuckoo-buds, of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows...tree Mocks married men, for thus sings he : Cuckoo ! Cuckoo ! cuckoo ! — O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! When shepherds pipe on oaten... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...by the cuckoo Ver, begin. SONG. ^Spring. 'ing. When daisies pled, and violets blue, And lady-smacks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds* of yellow hue,...tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, * Cuckoo f [5] Gerard, in his Herbal. *$97> says, th'it the fii.s cuctili carddminj, &care call-d " in English... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1823 - 344 pages
...mainlaiu'd by the owl, the other by the cuckoo. Ver, begin. SONG. Spring. When daisies pied, and vioiets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds*...tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; [5] Gerard, in his Herbal, 1597, savs, that the fla, cteculi cardtuninc, *c. are tzlled " in English... | |
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