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PLANT-LORE OF SHAKESPEARE 
apple;” it is again named in an Anglo-Saxon Vocabulary of 
the eleventh century (in the British Museum), but without any 
English equivalent; and Gerard cultivated both sorts in his 
garden. 
Aartgolb. 
( 1 ) 
The Marigold that goes to bed wi’ the sun, 
And with him rises weeping; these are flowers 
Of middle summer. — Winter s Tale , iv. 4, 105. 
(2) 
The purple Violets and Marigolds 
Shall, as a carpet, hang upon thy grave 
While summer-days do last .—Pericles , iv. 1, 16. 
( 3 ) 
And winking Marybuds begin 
To ope their golden eyes .—Cymbeline , ii. 3, 25. 
(4) 
Marigolds on death-beds blowing. 
Two Noble Kinsmen, Introd. song. 
(5) 
Great princes’ favourites their fair leaves spread 
But as the Marigolds at the sun’s eye .—Sonnet xxv. 
(6) 
Her eyes, like Marigolds, had sheathed their light, 
And canopied in darkness sweetly lay, 
Till they might open to adorn the day.— Lucrece , 397. 
There are at least three plants which claim to be the old 
Marigold. 1 . The Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris). This 
is a well-known golden flower— 
“The wild Marsh Marigold shines like fire in swamps and hollows gray.” 
Tennyson. 
And there is this in favour of its being the flower meant, that 
the name signifies the golden blossom of the marish or 
marsh; but, on the other hand, the Caltha does not fulfil the 
conditions of Shakespeare’s Marigold—it does not open and 
close its flowers with the sun. 2. The Corn Marigold 
(Chrysanthemum segetum ), a very handsome but mischievous 
