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VIOLET. 
TANSY VIOLET. 
“ The Heart’s Ease, which is a native of 
most parts of Europe, as well as of England, 
is a species of Violet, and is frequently called 
the Pansy-violet, or Pansy, a corruption of 
the French name Pensees. 
“ The small varieties of this plant are scent¬ 
less, but the larger ones have an agreeable 
odour. Drayton celebrates its perfume by 
the flowers with which he compares it in this 
respect: 
“ The pansy and the violet, here, 
As seeming to descend 
Both from one root, a very pair. 
For sweetness do contend. 
And pointing to a pink to tell 
Which bears it, it is loth 
To judge it : but replies, for smell 
That it excels them both. 
Wherewith displeased they hang their heads. 
So angry soon they grow, 
And from their odoriferous beds 
Their sweets at it they throw,” 
“ The Persians themselves have not a 
greater number of fond appellations for the 
rose, than the people of Europe for the 
Ileart’s-ease. The provincial names which 
from its beautiful colours are bestowed upon 
it in England, are alike amusing and various. 
The following are a specimen: 
Love in Idleness Herb Trinity 
Live in Idleness Flamy 
Call me to you Flower of Jove 
Cull me to yon Three faces under a wood 
