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Ayer’s deed, 
Reseda luteola. Narurar Orver: Resedacee—Vignonette Family. 
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as “NOWN familiarly as the Dyer’s Weed, but botanically by the 
"Latin words reseda, from its medicinal value in assuaging pain, 
and /uteola, yellow, from the dye which it furnishes, sometimes 
called Dutch pink, this plant is of the same species as our 
mix well-known garden favorite, the mignonette. Both are mostly 
SZ native on the coast of the Mediterranean; this one, however, 
has become partially naturalized in the United States. It is said 
that its flowers follow the course of the sun, inclining east, south and 
~ west by day, and north by night. 
Design. 
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HEN men’s intents are wicked, their guilt haunts them, 
But when they are just, they’re armed, and nothing daunts them. 
—Middleton. 
URPOSE is but the slave to memory, CTIONS rare and sudden do commonly 
Of violent birth, but poor validity ; Proceed from fierce necessity: or else 
Which now like fruits unripe, stick on the tree, From some oblique design, which is asham’d 
But fall unshaken when they mellow be. To show itself in the public road. 
—Shakespeare. —Sir Wm. Davenant, 
OU have sent so many posts 
Of undertakings, they outride performance; 
And make me think your fair pretences aim 
At some intended ill, which my prevention 
Must strive to avert. —WNabb. 
ONEST designs justly resemble our devotions, HEN any great design thou dost intend, 
Which we must pay, and wait for the reward. Think on the means, the manner and the end. 
—Sir Robert Howard. : —Denham. 
RING, therefore, all the forces that you may, 
And lay incessant battery to her heart; 
Plaints, prayers, vows, ruth, and sorrow, and dismay, 
These engines can the proudest love convert. —Spenser. vi 
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