8 NATURAL HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE. 
MARIGOLD. 
Perdita. The marigold, that goes to bed with the sun, 
And with him rises weeping; 
A Winter’s Tale, Act iv. Scene 3. 
Marina. ... I will rob Tellus of her weed, 
To strew thy green with flowers ; the yellows, blues, 
The purple violets, and marigolds, 
Shall as a chaplet hang upon thy grave, 
While summer days do last. 
Pericles, Act iv. Scene 1. 
Her eyes, like marigolds, had sheathed their light, 
And canopied in darkness sweetly lay, 
Till they might open to adorn the day. 
The Rape of Lucrece. 
Great princes’ favourites their fair leaves spread 
But as the marigold at the sun’s eye; 
Sonnet XXV. 
COLUMBINE. 
Longueville. That columbine. 
Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act v. Scene 2. 
Ophelia. There’s fennel for you, and columbines :— 
Hamlet, Act iv. Scene 5. 
PANSY. 
Ophelia. . . . there is pansies, 
that’s for thoughts. 
Hamlet, Act iv. Scene 5. 
