FLORAL EMBLEMS. 149 



FOOLISHNESS, OR SIMPLICITY. 



Pomegranate. — Punica. 



** And rich pomegranate, wrapt in dulcet pulp 

 Their racy seeds." 



Mason. 



This emblem is probably made in allusion 

 to Proserpine's having eaten the seeds of the 

 pomegranate in the Elysian fields, which the 

 poets tell us prevented her return to earth. 



We have somewhere seen blindness pictured 

 under the emblem of a young woman direct- 

 ing a mole with one hand, and holding a 

 pomegranate flower in the other, as the sym- 

 bol of foolishness. 



