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, The cuckoo then, on every tree, 885 Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, 890 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, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, 895 Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! WINTER. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, 900 And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp’d and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; 905 Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson’s saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, 910 And Marian’s nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, 915 While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. _Arm._ The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo. You that way,—we this way. [_Exeunt._ ~~~~~ Linenotes: _Love’s Labour’s Lost_, V, 2. SCENE II.] SCENE III. Pope. ACT V. SCENE I. Capell. 3, 4: These two lines to be transposed. S. Walker conj. 3: _A lady_] _All ladies_ Lettsom conj. 8: _o’_] _a_ Q1. _on_ Ff Q2. 11: _years_] _yeare_ Q1. 12: _shrewd_] _shrowd_ Q1. 13: _ne’er_] _neare_ Q1. 17: _ha’_] _a_ Qq F1 F2. _have_ F3 F4. _a grandam_] _Grandam_ Q1. 28: _cure...care_] Theobald (Thirlby conj.). _care...cure_ Qq Ff. 41: _as_] om. Rowe. 42: _B_] _R_ Collier MS. 43: _’Ware_] See note (XXII). _pencils_] Rowe. _pensalls_ Q1. _pensals_ F1. _pensils_ Q2 F2 F3 F4. _ho!_] Hanmer. _How?_ Qq Ff. 45: _not so_] Q1. om. Ff Q2. 46: Kath.] Theobald. Prin. QQ Ff. _I_] om. Capell. _beshrew_] _beshrow_ Q1. 47: _Katharine,_] om. S. Walker conj. _to you from fair_] _you from_ Ritson conj. 49: _moreover_] _sent moreover_ Capell. 51: _hypocrisy_] _apocrypha_ Warburton conj. (withdrawn). 53: _pearls_] _pearle_ Q1. 58: _mock...so_] _make...sport_ Anon. conj. _so_] _for’t_ Theobald. 65: _wholly to my hests_] Dyce (S. Walker conj.). _wholly to my device_ Qq F1. _all to my behests_ F2 F3 F4. 65, 66: _hests...jests_] _behest...jest_ Capell conj. MS. 66: _that_] Qq F1. _with_ F2 F3 F4.