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notice a French verse, and a game of their playful 

 children, who, forming a circle, strip off a petal 

 each from the single Daisy, repeating, // viaimc 

 un peu, jxissionement, pan du tout, and so on to 

 the last, fearing all the time to pronounce the word 

 in which the circle should finish. 



La blanche et simple Paquerette, 

 Que ton coeur consulte but tout, 

 Dit : ton amant, tendre fillette, 

 T'aime, un peu, beaucoup, point du tout. 



The French name this flower Marguerite as well 

 as Paquerette. Thence St. Louis took for a device 

 on his ring a Daisy and a Lily, in allusion to the 

 name of the Queen, his wife, and to the arms of 

 France, to which he added a sapphire, on which a 

 crucifix was engraved, surrounded with this motto : 

 — " Hors cct annuel, pourrions-nous trouvcr 

 amour P" because, as this prince said, it was the 

 emblem of all he held most dear — religion, France, 

 and his spouse. Lady Margaret, Countess of 

 Richmond, bore three white Daisies (Marguerites) 

 on a green turf. 



How much this little flower was regarded in the 

 fourteenth century, by the father of English poetry, 

 the frequent mention and high commendation of 

 Chaucer will prove. 



of all the floures in the raede, 



Then love I most these floures white and rede, 



