FLORAL EMBLEMS. 53 



" Moreover you must be sure to give every 

 moneth his proper and naturall landtskip, not 

 making- (as a painter of my acquaintance did 

 in severall tables of the moneths for a noble- 

 man of this land) blossomes upon the trees in 

 December, and schoole-boyes, playing at nine 

 pinnes upon the yce in July." 



We derive the names of the months from 

 classical languages, and those of the days from 

 the Gothic tongue. 



