HONESTY. 283 



does not fill a place in the floral vocabulary, we 

 will, by permission, place it there to represent the 

 necessary and honourable virtue of Honesty, which 

 title was, according to Gerard, bestowed upon this 

 flower by an English gentlewoman, whom our im- 

 mortal bard makes to say, 



mine Honesty shall be my dower. 



