Love's Labour's Lost Man and the Natural World Quotes

BEROWNE
The spring is near when green geese are a-breeding. (1.1.99)

In Shakespeare, Spring is all about mating, breeding, and procreation. In terms of human beings, this translates to sexual activity.

LONGAVILLE
Berowne is like an envious sneaping frost
That bites the firstborn infants of the spring. (1.1.104-105)

Longaville picks up on Berowne's seasonal imagery and uses it to insult him.

BEROWNE
At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled shows,
But like of each thing that in season grows. (1.1.109-111)

Berowne will want to take back this argument for "all things in good time" when Rosaline asks him to wait year.