136 THROUGH GLADE AND MEAD. 
and again: 
“ Flowers were the couch, 
Pansies and violets and asphodel 
And hyacinth ; earth’s freshest, softest lap.” 
In his ‘‘Lycidas” he gives a short list of the vernal 
flowers that purple all the ground: 
“Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, 
The tufted crow-toe and pale jessamine, 
The white pink, and the pansy freak’d with jet, 
The glowing violet, 
The musk-rose and the well-attired woodbine, 
With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head.” 
In “The Pilgrim’s Progress” as Christiana and her 
children are going through the Valley of Humiliation 
with Mr. Great-heart, they hear a shepherd’s boy sing- 
ing: 
“He that is down needs fear no fall ; 
He that is low, no pride ;” 
and the guide says, ‘Do you hear him? I will dare to 
say that this boy lives a merrier life, and wears more 
of that herb called heart’s-ease in his bosom, than he 
that is clad in silk and velvet.” 
In Britten and Holland’s “Dictionary of English 
Plant-Names,” there is a list of forty-one common names 
of the pansy, used in the different counties of England. 
