SNAP DRAGON. 



(Continued.) 



If 'tis presumption for a wretch condemned, 



To throw himself beneath his judges' feet : 



A boldness more than this, I never knew. . Dryden. 



There is a pleasure, sure, 



In being mad, which none but madmen know ! 



Let me indulge it : let me gaze for ever ! 



And, since you are too great to be belov'd, 



Be greater, greater yet and be ador'd. . . . tame. 



SNOW BALL. 

 Viburnum opulus. 



To bind. 



I will make a desperate tender of my love ! . Shaks. 



If thou dost love, my kindness shall incite thee 



To bind our loves up in a holy band same. 



For, if you will be married to-morrow, you shall ; 



And to Rosalind, if you will same. 



Answer. 



I will marry thee if ever I marry woman, 



And I '11 be married to-morrow same. 



So is the forehead of a married man, more 



Honourable than the bare brow of a bachelor. . fame. 



SNOW DROP. Refinement. 



Galanthus nivalis. 



* * * * Love refines 

 The thoughts, and heart enlarges ; hath his seat 

 In reason Milton. 



Love, studious how to please, improves our parts 

 With polish'd manners, and adorns with arts. Dryden. 



Love made an active progress through his mind, 

 The dusky parts he clear'd, the gross refin'd, 



The drowsy wak'd same. 



By love, his want of words and wit he found, 



That sense of want prepared the future way 



To knowledge, and disclos'd the promise of a day. 



Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife, 



Soon taught the sweet civilities of life. . . . same. 



SORREL, Wild. Wit ill timed. He makes a foe, who makes a jest Gay. 



Oxalis. Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe. 



L 1 Estrange. 



