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GARDENS, WREATHS, &c. 
Mosaic : underfoot the violet, 
Crocus, and hyacinth, with rich inlay 
Broider’d the ground, more coloured that 
with stone 
Of costliest emblem.” 
THE BRIDAL WREATH. 
DRAYTON. 
To sort which flowers, some sit; some making 
garlands were; 
The primrose placing first, because that in the 
spring 
It is the first appears, then only flourishing; 
The azur’d hare-bell next, with them they 
neatly mix’d: 
T’ allay whose luscious smell, they woodbine 
plac’d betwixt. 
Amongst those things of scent, there prick they 
in the lily: 
And near to that again, her sister daffadilly. 
To sort these flowers of show, with th’ other 
that were sweet. 
The cowslip then they couch, and th’ oxslip, 
for her meet: 
The columbine amongst they sparingly do set, 
The yellow king-cup, wrought in many a 
curious fret, 
