PART I.
WHITE FLOWERS.
Describing your Character.
APPLE-BLOSSOM.
A most exquisite lady.
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As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing;
A man that fortune’s buffets and rewards
Hast ta’en with equal thanks; and bless’d are those
Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled,
That they are not a pipe for fortune’s finger
To sound what stop she pleases.
APRICOT-BLOSSOM.
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What an eye!—Methinks it sounds a parley of provocation.—An inviting eye, and yet, methinks, right modest.
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A combination and a form, indeed,
Where every god did seem to set his seal
To give the world assurance of a man.
ANEMONE, OR WIND FLOWER.
And sweet your voice as seraph’s song.
It bids you hear the tale of woe.
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Where none will sweat but for promotion,
And having that, do choke their service up,
Even with the having; it is not so with thee.
BACHELOR’S BUTTON.
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Seeking the bubble reputation.
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BALSAMINE.
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Of flowers, garlands, love-knots, silly posies,
Groves, meadows, melodies and arbor-roses.
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BLOOD ROOT.
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Your spirits are too bold for your years.
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CALLA.
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
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A handsome youth, indeed!
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CANDY TUFT.
Handsome, young, and hast all those requisites that folly and green minds look after.
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if the devil bid you.
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CHINA ASTER.
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Thy mind is a very opal! I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere.
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CAMELLIA.
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As jealous creatures are.
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CLEMATIS.
Pretty and witty; wild, and yet too, gentle.
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Believe me, in thy breast are thy destiny’s stars. Trust in thyself. Decision is thy Venus. The Malignant, the only one that injures thee, is irresolution.
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CANTERBURY BELL.
Wearing the rose of womanhood.
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The world hath noted, and your name is great
In mouths of wisest censure.
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COLUMBINE.
As quarrelsome as the weasel.
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You are rather point-device in your accoutrements; as loving yourself than seeming the lover of any other.
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CHRYSANTHEMUM.
But slow in speech, yet sweet as spring-time flowers.
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As e’er my conversation coped withal.
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DAHLIA.
Nor bite the lip, as angry wenches will;
Nor hast thou pleasure to be cross in talk;
But thou with mildness entertain’st thy wooers,
With gentle conference soft and affable.
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Everything by starts, and nothing long.
DAISY.
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As zephyrs, blowing below the violet,
Not wagging his sweet head; and yet as rough,
The blood enchased, as the rudest wind,
That by the top doth take the mountain-pine,
And make him stoop to the vale.
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DAFFODIL.
Soft smiles by human kindness bred!
And seemliness complete, that sways
Thy courtesies, about thee plays.
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Of every man’s good parts.
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ELDER.
God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another; you jig, you amble, you lisp.
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The observed of all observers.
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EVERLASTING.
Whose pleasures are in wild fields gathered.
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devil himself with courtesy.
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HOLLYHOCK.
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HOUSTONIA.
Whose heart is in her house.
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In the low vale of life.
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HONEYSUCKLE.
Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks
The polished counter, and approving none,
Or promising with smiles to call again.
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Cunning in music and the mathematics.
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HAWTHORN.
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For every virtue, every worth renowned.
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JASMINE.
I see thee sweet and bonnie.
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And tender as a girl, all essenced o’er
With odors, and as profligate as sweet.
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LILY.
Summed up, and closed in little.
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That thinks men honest that but seem to be so,
And will as tenderly be led by the nose
As asses are.
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LOCUST.
Beauty has corrupted thy heart. That little face! shame on thee! In the morning its splendor dies, its rose sheds its leaves. Swallows that love in the spring-time fly when the north-wind blows. Thine autumn will frighten away thy lovers.
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LARKSPUR.
And your life like the new-driven snaw.
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A delicate refinement known to few.
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LEMON.
When the dew wets its leaves; unstained
As is the lily, and pure as the mountain snow.
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Distilled from some worm-cankered homily.
* * * Thou from a throne
Mounted in heaven wilt shoot into the dark
Arrows of lightnings.
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LUPINE.
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A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more in a minute than he can stand to in a month.
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MALLOWS.
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MYRTLE.
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ORANGE FLOWER.
A lady of most confirmed honor, of an unmatchable spirit, and determinable in all virtuous resolutions; not hasty to anticipate an affront, nor slow to feel, where just provocation is given.
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OX-EYE.
Where there is little of transcendent worth,—
Like one of Shakspeare’s women.
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An idle Dreamer!
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PEA-BLOSSOM.
Graceful without design, and unforeseeing.
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The picture of a life well spent.
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PETUNIA.
A lovely soul, formed to be blest and bless.
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Ambition to attempt, and skill to win.
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PEONY.
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Of manners sweet as virtue always wears
When gay good nature dresses her in smiles.
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PINK.
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In power of mind and eloquent discourse.
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POPPY.
Of prouder stuff.
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That hath a mint of phrases in his brains;
One when the music of his own vain tongue
Doth ravish like enchanting harmony.
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POTATO.
The hearts of men adore thee.
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ROSE.
As sweet as the evening among the new hay;
As blithe and as artless as the lambs on the lea.
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A merrier man, within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour’s talk withal.
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SNOW-DROP.
And love but thee forever;
For Nature made thee what thou art,
And ne’er made sic’ anither!
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STRAWBERRY-BLOSSOM.
No artful wiles to win.
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SNOWBALL.
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A unit; a thing without a name in the state; a something to be governed, not to govern.
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SWEET-WILLIAM.
In which more plainly I could trace
Benignity and homebred sense,
Ripening in perfect innocence.
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SPIREA.
Thou art of so free, so kind, so apt, so blessed a disposition, that thou holdest it a vice in thy goodness not to do more than thou art requested.
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STAR OF BETHLEHEM.
Of spirit so still and quiet, that thy motion
Blushes at thyself.
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Of Love, of Hate, forever in extremes;
Gentle when unprovoked, easily won,
But quick in quarrel—thro’ a thousand shades
Thy spirit flits, chameleon-like; and mocks
The eye of the observer.
SYRINGA.
Nor sparingly endowed with worldly wealth.
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In voices well divulged, free, learned and valiant,
And in dimensions and the shape of nature
A gracious person.
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VERBENA.
With this, thy fair and outward character.
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Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before it is a peascod, or a codling when’t is almost an apple.
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VIOLET.
Incapable of base compliances.
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A man of kindlier nature.
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