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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.

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William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Autolycus, in The Winter's Tale, act 4, sc. 3, l. 1-4.

The rogue Autolycus bursts in to change the mood from winter to spring, singing of renewed vitality ("red blood") doing away with the paleness of winter; a "doxy" is slang for a wench or, in modern slang, a floozy.

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