The swallow is cited in several of William Shakespeare's plays for the swiftness of its flight, with "True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings" from Act 5 of "Richard III", and "I have horse will follow where the game Makes way, and run like swallows o'er the plain." from the second act of "Titus Andronicus". Shakespeare references the annual migration of the species in "The Winter's Tale", Act 4: "Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty".