Illustration Friday : Spring

Copyright 2006 Ratlion

"...In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,

When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;

Sweet lovers love the spring."

~William Shakespeare

(As You Like It 5.3.15-20)

The whole quote goes like this,

"It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,

That o’er the green corn-field did pass,

In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,

When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;

Sweet lovers love the spring."

I'd found the last three lines on one quote site and had almost finished the illo, when I decided to verify the quote on other sites, which was when I found the complete quote. By then it was too late to incorporate green corn fields :).

So I'll just leave you with a lover and his lass, enjoying spring...