FLORA'S LEXICON. 53 



ARDINAL'S FLOWER. Lobelia Cardi- 

 natis. Class 5, PENTANDRIA. Order : Mo- 

 NOGYNIA. This elegant plant is decorated 

 with bright scarlet flowers. It is indigenous ! 

 in our country, growing on the borders of ' 

 rivers and streamlets. It is a flower of sin- 

 gular elegance and richness. 



DISTINCTION. 



For places in the court, are but like beds 

 In the hospital ; where this man's head lies 

 At that man's foot, and so lower and lower. 



WEBSTER. 



If on the sudden he begins to rise ; 



No man that lives can count his enemies. 



MIDDLE-TON. 



All preferment 



That springs from sin and lust shoots up quickly; 

 As gard'ner's crops do in the rott'nest grounds; 

 So is all means raised from base prostitution, 

 Even like a salad growing upon a dunghill. 



MlDDLETON. 



What throngs of great impediments besiege 

 The virtuous mind? so thick, they jostle 

 One another as they come. Hath vice a 

 Charter got, that none must rise, but such, who 

 Of the devil's faction are 1 the way to 

 Honour is not evermore the way to 

 Hell: a virtuous man may climb. Let the 

 Flatterer sell his lies elsewhere, it is 

 Unthrifty merchandise to change my gold 

 For breath. 



DAVENANT. 



