...time of day: and yours, and yours, That wear upon your virgin-branches yet Your maidenheads growing: O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that (frighted) thou let'st fall From Dis's wagon: daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty: violets...

...golden aura given off so often is a reflection of 'the fire-robed god,' but now listen to these lines: O Proserpina, For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis' wagon; daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty;...

...that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon! daffadils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets, dim,...the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primeroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength (a malady Most incident...

...That wear upon your virgin branches yet Your maidenheads growing. — O Proserpina, For the flow'rs now, that (frighted) thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon:...than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath) . . . It is as though the mythical transformative energies of Ovid's Metamorphoses have invaded a distinctively...

...time of day, and yours, and yours, That wear upon your virgin branches yet Your maidenheads growing. O Proserpina, For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's wagon; daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets...

...yours, (To Mopsa and the other girls) That wear upon your virgin branches yet Your maidenheads growing. O Proserpina, For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon! (IV.iv.113-18) There are no daffodils, violets and lilies at this time of year now. 'O . . . For the...

...and Dorcas] and yours, and yours, That wear upon your virgin branches yet 5 Your maidenheads growing. O Proserpina, For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's wagon! - Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets,...

...fall from Dia's wagon. A sad tale's best for winter Daffodils that come before the swallow dares, and take the winds of March with beauty. Violets dim but sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes or those of Dia's trerea's breath pale prim rost that died unm ried, ere they \ can...

...of day, and yours, and yours, That wear upon your virgin branches yet n6 Your maidenheads growing. O Proserpina, For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis 's wagon; daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take 119 The winds of March with beauty;...

...the queen on't. (4- 4- 1-5) Distributing her flowers, Perdita invokes the figure she also embodies: 'O Proserpina, | For the flowers now that, frighted, thou letst fall | From Dis's wagon' (4. 4. 116-18). And in his next play, The Tempest, Shakespeare again alludes to the myth of...