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FLORAL POESY. 
THE GILLYFLOWER. 
DKAYTON. 
The curious, choice, clove July flower. 
Whose kinds, hight the carnation, 
For sweetness of most sovereign power 
Shall help my wreath to fashion ; 
Whose sundry colors of one kind, 
First from one root derived, 
Them in their several suits I’ll bind. 
My garland so contrived. 
FOXGLOVE. 
(Insincerity,) 
T HE Foxglove typifies insincerity, because of the 
insidious poison which lurks within its bright 
blossom. In France and Germany, and in some parts 
of England, it is known as “Finger-flower,” because 
of the resemblance it bears to the finger of a glove, a 
resemblance which the poets have not failed to take 
advantage of. William Brown describes Pan as seek¬ 
ing gloves for his mistress : 
“ To keep her slender fingers from the sunne, 
Pan through the pastures oftentimes hath runne 
To pluck the speckled foxgloves from their stem, 
And on those fingers neatly placed them. 
