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Ve lef is thicke schinede and styf. 

 As is ye grene jwy leef. 

 \'nche brod and nerhand * rownde 

 Men calle it yc joy of growndc." \ 



In an old ballad, a noble lady is called, ''The parwenke of 



Fountain, from an English ms. " speculum." c. 1450. b.m. 2838. 



prowesse," the periwinkle being then used to typify excellence, 

 in the same way as the pink in Elizabethan times, " The very 

 pink of courtesy." 



Among yellow flow^ers in the same garden, the marigold 

 or goldj as it is called in old writers, would be conspicuous : 



* — 



= tieai'ly. f Medical MS., Stockholm. Archcpologia, \o\. XXX. 



