A PREFACE OF MOTTOES. IX 



" Doubtless they are the admirable work of the most 

 Omnipotent God, who hath sent as many kinds of medicines 

 as of maladies, that as by the one we may see our own 

 wretch ednesse, so by the other, we might maguifie his good- 

 nesse towards man, on whom he hath bestowed fruit for 

 meat, and leaves for medicine." GWILLIM'S "DISPLAY OF 

 HERALDRY." 



" "With holy awe I cujl the opening flower, 

 The hand of God hath made it, and where'er 

 The flow'ret blooms, there God is present also." 



LADY FLORA HASTINGS. 



" Oh attend 



Whoe'er thou art, whom these delights can touch, 

 Whose candid bosom, the refining love 

 Of nature warms ; oh ! listen to my song ; 

 And I will guide thee to her favourite walks, 

 And teach thy solitude her voice to hear, 

 And point her loveliest features to thy view." 



" Herbs, woods, and springs, the power that in you lies 

 If man could know your properties !" 



FLETCHER. 



" An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds." 



" Midsummer Night's Dream." 



" Blessed be God for flowers ! 



For the bright, gentle, holy, thoughts that breathe 

 From out their odorous beauty, like a wreath 

 Of sunshine in life's hours." 



" Of these most helpfulle hearbes, yet tell we but a few, 

 To those unnumbered sorts of simples here that grew, 

 Which justly to set down, euen Dodon short doth fall, 

 Nor skillfulle Gerarde yet, shall euer find them all." 



DRAYTON. 



