...dark days of winter and the long, warm, bright days of early summer. Autolycus enters, singing: When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh! the doxy over...year, For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. (IV.iii.i-4) Autolycus sings, it seems,22 of spring. His song seems to announce within the movement...

...AUTOLYCUS SHEPHERD AUTOLYCUS SHEPHERD AUTOLYCUS SHEPHERD AUTOLYCUS [Enter Autolycus, singing] When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh! the doxy over...year, For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. A prize! a prize! [Enter Shepherd] [girl [To himself] Let me see: what am I to buy for our sheep-shearing...

...Autolycus, singing] AUTOLYCUS When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh! the doxy over the dale [girt Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year, For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. A prize! a prize! [Enter Shepherd] SHEPHERD [To himself] Let me see: what am I to buy for our sheep-shearing...

...[Exeunt. SCENE 3. Bohemia. A road near the shepherd's cottage. Enter AUTOLicus,71 singing. AUTOLICUS 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. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge (With...

...AUTOLYCUS When daffodils begin to peer, With hey, the doxy over the dale, Why then comes in the sweet o'the year, For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, 5 With hey, the sweet birds O how they sing ! Doth set my pugging tooth on edge, For a quart of ale...

...poem "Spring": -Y ' /•'./" The names "daffodil" and "narcissus" refer to the many beautiful When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh! the doxy over...year, For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. cultivated and natural forms of the genus Narcissus. (The botanical name Narcissus comes from the legend...

...songs, we have ribaldry. An apparently innocent number in The Winter's Tale, for example, goes: When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh! the doxy, over...hedge, With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing! Does set my pugging tooth on edge; For a quart of ale is a dish for king. The lark, that tirra-lirra...

...Autolycus, singing. AUTOLYCUS When daffodils begin to peer, 1 With heigh! the doxy over the dale, 2 Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year, For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. 4 The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With heigh! the sweet birds, O how they sing! Doth set my...

...Término que aquí traducimos por 'historia (o leyenda, o cuento) caballeresca'. (N. del T.) 14 . When daffodils begin to peer, / With heigh! the doxy over...heigh! the sweet birds, O how they sing! / Doth set my pugging tooth an edge; / For a quart of ale is a dish for a king. /The lark, that tirra-lirra chants,...

...the feast are not missed. Autolycus's song begins by describing the pastoral ideal of romance: When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh! the doxy over...year, For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. (4.3.1-4) As he continues, Autolycus transforms erotic desire into his immediate and practical intention...