In the spring
When proud-pied April dress’d in all his trim
Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing

–Sonnet 98

In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding.
Sweet lovers love the spring.

–As You Like It,
Act V, Scene iii

‘twixt May and April is to see,
When winds breathe sweet, untidy though they be.

–A Lover’s Complaint

As sun and showers
There had made a lasting spring.

–Henry VIII,
Act III, Scene i

The spring is near when green geese are a-breeding.

–Love’s Labour’s Lost,
Act I, Scene i

Who are the violets now
That strew the green lap of the new come spring?

–Richard II,
Act V, Scene ii

When daisies pied and violets blue
And lady-smocks all silver-white
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight,

–Love’s Labour’s Lost,
Act V, Scene ii

The April ‘s in her eyes: it is love’s spring,
And these the showers to bring it on. Be cheerful.

–Antony and Cleopatra,
Act III, Scene ii

Love’s gentle spring doth always fresh remain.

—Venus and Adonis

A heart unspotted is not easily daunted.
The purest Spring is not so free from mud.

–Henry VI Part 2,
Act III, Scene i

O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day.

–Two Gentlemen of Verona,
Act I, Scene iii

Now ’tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;
Suffer them now, and they’ll o’ergrow the garden
And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.

–Henry VI Part 2,
Act III, Scene i

Well, bear you well in this new spring of time,
Lest you be cropp’d before you come to prime.

–Richard II,
Act V, Scene ii