[Transcriber's Note: Inconsistent punctuation in the play citations has
been retained as in the original.]
[Illustration: Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden]
To the Countess of Warwick,
whose delightful Old English
Garden at Easton Lodge suggested
this book of fancies, it is
now inscribed.
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_All Rights Reserved_
FLOWERS FROM SHAKESPEARE'S GARDEN:
a Posy from the Plays, pictured by Walter Crane
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Cassell & Co: Ltd 1909
"O, Proserpina,
For the flowers now, that, frighted, thou lett'st fall
From Dis's wagon!
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daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty;
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violets, dim
But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes
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Or Cytherea's breath;
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pale primroses,
That die unmarried, ere they can behold
Bright Phœbus in his strength, a malady
Most incident to maids;
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bold oxlips, and
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The crown-imperial;
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lilies of all kinds,
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The flower-de-luce being one!"
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"—Here's flowers for you;
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Hot lavender,
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mints,
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savorie, marjoram;
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The marigold that goes to bed with the sun,
And with him rises weeping;"
Perdita.
Winter's Tale
Act: IV. Sc. III.
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"The fairest flowers o' the season
Are our carnations,"
Perdita.
Winter's Tale