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A ///STOAT OF GARDKN/NG /N ENGLAND. 



Ve lef is thickc schiiu-dc and st}'f. 

 As is ye grene jwy lecf. 

 Vnche brod and nerhand * rownde 

 Men callc it ye joy of growndc." f 



FOUNTAIN, FROM AN ENGLISH MS. "SPECULUM. •' C. I450. H M. 283S. 



In an old ballad, a noble lady is called, "The parwenke of 

 prowesse," the periwinkle being then used to tvj^ifv excellence, 

 in the same way as the pink in Elizabethan times", "The very 

 pink of courtesy." 



Among: yellow flowers in the same garden, the marigold, 

 or gold, a s it^ caUed in old writers, would be conspicuous : 



* = nearly. f Medical MS., Stockholm. ArclucologiZ\'o\.'xXx7~ 



