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ALERIAN. Valeriana Rubra. Class 2, 

 DlAMDEIA. Order : Monooynia. This plant 

 propagates itself with equal facility in the 

 rich borders of the parterre, or in the dry 

 crevices of old walls, hence the emblem. It 

 was formerly called Setewale. Chaucer 

 says, 



Ther springen herbes grete and smale, 



The Licoris and the Setewale. 



ACCOMMODATING DISPOSITION. 



Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, 

 Shall win my love. 



Shakspeare. 



What would you have? your gentleness shall force 

 More than your force move us to gentleness. 



SHAH3PEARE. 



What thou wilt, 

 Thou rather shalt enforce it with thy smile, 

 Than hew to't with thy sword. 



Shakspeare. 



You may ride us 

 With one soft kiss a thousand furlongs, ere 

 With spur we heat an acre. 



Shakspeare. 



When your head did but ache, 

 I knit my handkerchief about your brows, 

 (The best I had, a princess wrought it me,) 

 And I did never ask it you again : 

 And with my hand at midnight held your head; 

 And, like the watchful minutes to the hour, 

 Still and anon cheer'd up the heavy time; 

 Saying, what lack you? and, where lies your grief] 



Shakspeare. 



