FLORAL EMBLEMS. 67 



ASSIDUITY. 



LAVENDER. Lavendula Spica. 



" And lavender, whose spikes of azure bloom 

 Shall be erewhile in arid bundles bound, 

 To lurk amidst her labours of the loom, 

 And crown her kerchiefs clean with mickle rare perfume." 



Shenstone. 



In the floral emblems of the Turks this 

 agreeable plant represents assiduity ; but the 

 continental emblematists make it symbolical 

 of mistrust and disunion, because it is fre- 

 quently used to cover disagreeable odours. 



Mistrust can only belong justly to such as 

 are accustomed to cheat and deceive, and 

 those need no greater curse for their misdeeds. 



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