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^SCbptaS cornuti. Natural Order: Asclepiadacece — Milkweed Family. 
f ROM a hoar y antiquity has descended the name ^Esculapius, 
repi esented as an aged man with a heavy beard, leanjng 
upon his jointed cane, and his head adorned with a crown 
of laurel. lie was the god of medicine, and by his wisdom 
and skill improved the art of healing very much. It was 
also believed of him that, while physician to the Argonauts, 
he had the power of calling the dead to life again. At last 
Pluto, the god of the lower world, jealous and provoked, complained 
that he was losing his subjects, and persuaded Jupiter to kill him, 
which he did with a thunderbolt. He was afterward worshiped as 
a god in many cities of Greece and at Rome, because he had once 
delivered that city from pestilence. This plant takes its name from 
him, and is the common inhabitant of our roadsides, known to school 
children as milkweed. 
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'T'HEN crush, e’en in the hour of birth, 
The infant buds of love, 
And tread the growing fire to earth 
Ere ’tis dark in clouds above. —Halleck. 
PWIT, quit for shame! this will not move, 
This cannot take her; 
If of herself she will not love, 
Nothing can make her. — Sir John Suckling. 
G| SLIPP’RY state 
Of human pleasures, fleet and volatile, 
Given us and snatch’d again in one short moment, 
To mortify our hopes, and edge our suff’rings. 
— Trapp. 
T OVE is a sickness full of woes, 
All remedies refusing; 
A plant that most with cutting grows, 
Most barren with best using. 
Why so? 
More we enjoy it, more it dies; 
If not enjoyed, it sighing cries 
Heigh-ho! — Samuel Daniel. 
T PRAY you do not fall in love with me, 
For I am falser than vows made in wine. 
Besides, I like you not. -Shakespeare. 
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AND let the aspiring youth beware of love, 
Of the smooth glance beware; for ’tis too late, 
When on his heart the torrent-softness pours. 
— Thompson. 
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