HEART'S-EASE. 169 



Fetch me that herb ; and be thou here again 

 Ere the leviathan can swim a league. 



PUCK. I '11 put a girdle round about the earth 

 In forty minutes. 



Act II. Sc. 2. 



" Besides these names of Love-in-idleness, Pansy, Heart's-ease, and 

 Jump-up-and-kiss-me, the tri-coloured violet is called also, in various 

 country places, the herb Trinity, Three-faces-under-a-hood, Kiss-me- 

 behind-the-garden-gate, and Cuddle-me-to-you, which seems to have 

 been altered by some nice apprehension into the less vivacious request 

 of Cull-me-to-you. 



" In short, the Persians themselves have not a greater number of 

 fond appellations for the rose, than the people of Europe for the 

 Heart's-ease. For my part, to whom gaiety and companionship are 

 more than ordinarily welcome on many accounts, I cannot but speak 

 with gratitude of this little flower, one of many with which fair and 

 dear friends have adorned my prison-house, and the one which out- 

 lasted all the rest." 



Mr. Hunt again mentions this flower with great praise 

 in his Descent of Liberty ; where, after sketching in vivid 

 colours a number of beautiful flowers, he thus finishes the 

 floral picture : 



" And as proud as all of them 

 Bound in one, the garden's gem, 

 Heart's-ease, like a gallant bold, 

 In his cloth of purple and gold." 



In his enumeration of the flowers in blossom, in his 

 History of the Months, too fond of the Heart's-ease even 

 to name it without a passing commendation, he calls it the 

 Sparkler ; a name which it so truly deserves, that it might 

 well be added to those it now bears ; in which it already 

 surpasses a Spanish grandee. 



Spenser includes the Heart's-ease among the flowers to 

 be strown before Queen Elizabeth : 



" Bring hither the pink and purple columbine, 



With gilliflowers : 

 Bring coronations and sops-in-wine, 

 Worn of paramours. 



