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the woodbine? Are they one and the same, or are they 

 different ? 



We cannot answer those questions until we have referred 

 to three or four passages in which they are introduced. And, 

 first, let us take an example from Spenser : 



" And over him, art striving to compare 

 With nature, did an arbour green dispread, 

 Framed of wanton ivy, flowering fair, 

 Through which the fragrant eglantine did spread 

 His pricking arms, entrailed with roses red, 

 Which dainty odours round about them threw, 

 And all within with flowers was garnished, 

 That when wild Zephyrus amongst them blew, 

 Did breathe out bounteous smells, and painted colours shew." 



And now from Milton : 



" Through the sweetbriar, or the vine, 

 Or the twisted eglantine." 



The following is from Sir Walter Scott : 



" On the hill 



Let the white heath-bell flourish still, 

 Cherish the tulip, prune the vine, 

 But freely let the woodbine twine, 

 And leave untrimmed the eglantine." 



From Burns : 



" The woodbine I will pu' when the evening star is near, 

 And the diamond draps of dew shall be her een sae clear." 



From Michael Drayton : 



" The azured harebell next with them they neatly mixt : 

 T' allay whose luscious smell they woodbine placed betwixt . . . 

 The columbine amongst they sparingly do set, 

 And now and then among, of eglantine a spray." 



