How we cite our quotes: (Line)
Quote #4
When all aloud the wind doth blow, (10)
The wind "doth blow," and Dick the shepherd "blows his nail." Maybe man and nature aren't so different after all. They both "blow" on things, after all.
Quote #5
And coughing drowns the parson's saw,
And birds sit brooding in the snow,
And Marian's nose looks red and raw; (11-13)
The differences between man and nature are quite apparent in this little passage. Marian's nose just can't take the cold, and neither can the lungs of that person whose coughing keeps interrupting the parson. In contrast, some little birds are doing just fine out there in the snow.