“Daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty.”
Winters Tale, Act iv. Sc. 3.
THE MARLET.
A near relative of this bird is the Martin, or, as it is called in the language of heraldry, the “Martlet” (Hirundo urbica).
“This guest of summer,
The temple-haunting martlet, doth approve,
By his lov’d mansionry, that the heaven’s breath
Smells wooingly here; no jutty, frieze,