148 FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



FOLLY 



Columbine . — A quilegia . 



And entwine 



The white, the blue, the flesh-like columbine." 



W. Browne. 



This flower is made the emblem of folly, 

 either on account of its party-coloured corolla, 

 or in allusion to the shape of its nectary, which 

 turns over like the cap of the old jesters. 



The above-mentioned poet says, 



" The columbine in tawny often taken. 

 Is then ascribed to such as are forsaken." 



The foxglove having some resemblance to 

 the cap and the bells, has induced the poets 

 to make it also symbolical of folly. 



" Love is blind, and lovers cannot see 



The pretty folUes that themselves commit." 



Shakspeare. 



