SAGE. 
SALVIA OFFICINALIS. 
DomESTIC VIRTUES. 
Nothing lovelier can be found 
In woman, than to study household good; 
And good works in her husband to ne BE 
Milton. 
A woman’s noblest station is retre 
Her fairest virtues fly from public s “a 
Domestic worth—that shuns too strong. a light. 
Lyttelton. 
Domestic happiness, thou only bliss 
Of paradise that hast survived the fall ! 
Thou art the nurse ~ virtue; in gen arms 
She smiles, appearing, as in nit uth s 
Heaven-born, ant destined to the ake again, Cowper. 
To give society its highest tast 
W ee ered — e man’ 8 oat tig to —* 
Thomson. 
I’ve heard my honest uncle often sz 
That lads should a’ for wives chat’ s Vicia pray ; 
For the maist thrifty man could never get 
A well-stored room, unless his wife wad let. 
Allan Ramsay. 
SCABIOUS, Dark PuRPLE. UNFORTUNATE ATTACH- 
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Oh, love! how are thy precious, sweetest moments 
hus ever crossed, thus vexed with di isappointments { 
Rowe's Ulysses. 
Such is the posy love compose 
A stinging nettle mixed w ora roses Pines oe Brown, 
Have blissful thoughts — thee on, 
And faded when most fai 
The look—the tone of bliss i is $s pone, 
Love has been there T. Bayley. 
Ah, Zelica! there was a time when bliss 
