118 POETICAL LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
And our simple ancestors believed that they had but 
to find the true “Fern seed,” and carry it about with 
them, to become invisible. What would not a fond 
lover give for a packet of this fabulous seed, that he 
might at any hour steal unperceived into the presence 
of his mistress ? But, alas ! the secret was carried 
away with the fairies, when they were driven, with 
bell, book, and candle, from the green and daisied 
meadows of merry England. 
