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FLORAL CEREMONIES. 
and gaiety were desired thus, in the play 
of “ All for Love,” Serapim says — 
“ Set before your doors 
The images of ail your sleeping fathers, 
With laurels crowned ; with laurels wreath your 
posts, 
And strew with flowers the pavement ; let the 
priest 
Do present sacrifice ! pour out the wine, 
And call the gods to join with you in gladness.” 
Dryden. 
And again, in “the Distrest Mother,” we 
find an allusion to the floral decorations which 
it was customary to place in the hands of vic- 
tims in the ancient sacrifices, at which the 
priests also appeared crowned with flowers : — 
“ Thus thegay victim with fresh garlands crowned, 
Pleased with the sacred pipe’s enlivening sound, 
Through gazing crowds, in solemn state proceeds, 
And dressed in fatal pomp magnificently bleeds.” 
PHIhLirS. 
“ In the annual festivals of the Terminalia, 
the peasants were all crowned with garlands 
of flowers,” says CICERO, and from “ Irving’s 
