FLORA'S LEXICON. 



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LUM TREE. Prunus Domestica. Class 

 12, ICOSANDRIA. Order: MONOGYNIA. Every 

 year the plum tree is covered with an im- 

 mense quantity of flowers, but unless trained 

 and pruned by the hand of an able gardener 

 of all its superfluous wood, it will only yield 

 fruit once in three years. 



KEEP YOUR PROMISES. 



If this austere unsociable life 



Change not your offer made in heat of blood ; 



If frosts, and fasts, hard lodging, and thin weeds, 



Nip not the gaudy blossoms of your love, 



But that it bear this trial, and last love ; 



Then, at the expiration of the year, 



Come challenge me. 



SHAKSPEARE. 



Here is my hand for my true constancy; 

 And when that hour o'erslips me in the day, 

 Wherein I sigh not, Julia, for thy sake, 

 The next ensuing hour some foul mischance 

 Torment me, for my love's forgetfulness ! 



SHAKSPEARE. 



His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles ; 

 His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate ; 

 His tears pure messengers sent from his heart; 

 His heart as far from fraud, as heaven and earth. 



SHAKSPEARE. 



God join'd my heart and Romeo's, thou our hands, 



And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo seal'd, 



Shall be the label to another deed, 



Or my true heart with treacherous revolt 



T*jrn to another, this shall slay them both. 



SHAKSPEARE. 



