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FLORA'S LEXICON. 95 



EART'S EASE. Viola Tricolor. Class 5, 

 PENTANDRIA. Order: MONOGYNIA. The 

 tints of this flower are scarce less varied 

 than the names that have been bestowed 

 upon it. That of pansy is a corruption of 

 the French name, pensee, thought. 



Leigh Hunt introduces the heart's-ease 

 into his verses : 



The garden's gem, 

 Heart's-ease, like a gallant bold, 

 In his cloth of purple and gold. 



Phillips observes that the most brilliant purples of the artist 

 appear dull when compared to that of the pansy ; our richest 

 sutins and velvets coarse and unsightly by a comparison of tex- 

 ture; and as to delicacy of shading, it is scarcely surpassed by 

 the bow of Iris itself. 



THINK OF ME. 



Frolic k virgins once these were, 

 Overloving, living here ; 

 Being here their ends denied, 

 Ran for sweethearts mad, and died. 



Love, in pitie of their teares, 

 And their losse in blooming yeares, 

 For their restlesse here-spent houres, 

 Gave them heart's-ease turn'd to flowres. 



HERRICK. 



And there are pansies, that 's for thoughts. 



SHAKSPEARE. 



And thou, so rich in gentle names, appealing 

 To hearts that own our nature's common lot; 



Those, styled by sportive fancy's better feeling 



' A Thought,' The Heart's Ease,' or Forget me not' 



BARTON. 



