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^SClcpiaS COnUlti. Xatlkai, Order: Asdepiadacecv — Milk-vced Family. 



ROM a hoary antiquity has descended the name ^sculapius, 

 represented as an aged man with a heavy beard, leaning 

 ' upon his jointed cane, and his head adorned with a crown 

 of laurel. He was the god of medicine, and by his wisdom 

 j)Y<s and skill improved the art of healing very much. It was 

 ^-tsalso believed of him that, while physician to the Argonauts, 

 he had the power of calling the dead to life again. At last 

 Pluto, the god of the lower world, jealous and provoked, complained 

 that he was losing his subjects, and persuaded Jupiter to kill him, 

 whKh ht (lid with a thunderbolt. He was afterward worshiped as 

 a god in many cities of Greece and at Rome, because he had once 

 delivered that city from pestilence. This plant takes its name from 

 him. and is the common inhabitant of our roadsides, known to school 

 children as milkweed. 



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'T'HEN crush, e'en in the hour of birth, 



'■ The infant buds of love. 

 And tread the growing fire to earth 



Ere "tis dark in clouds above. —[{nlUrk. 



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UIT, quit for shame! this will not move, 

 This cannot take her; 

 If of herself she will not love, 



Nothing can make her. - sir John Siicklmg. 



r\ SLIPP-RY state 



^ Of human pleasures, fleet and volatile. 

 Given us and snatch'd again in one short moment, 

 To mortifv our hopes, and edge our sufi'Vings. 



-Trapp. 



LOVE is a sickness full of woes, 

 ^ All remedies refusing; 

 A plant that most with cutting grows. 

 Most barren with best using. 



Why so.' 

 More we enjoy it, more it dies; 

 If not enjoyed, it sighing cries 



Heigh-ho! —Samuel Daniel. 



T PRAY you do not fall in love with me, 

 '■ For I am falser than vows made in wine. 



Besides, I like vou 



A ND let the aspiring youth beware of love, 

 ^ Of the smooth glance beware; for 'tis too late, 

 When on his heart the torrent-softness pours. 

 — Thompson. 



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