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time the name was very common. Here is one instance among 
many— 
‘ c Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all day, 
The Palms and May make country houses gay, 
And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay— 
Cuckoo, jug-jug, pee-we, to-witta-woo.” 
T. Nash, 1567—1601. 
pansies. 
(1) And there is Pansies—that’s for thoughts.— Hamlet , iv. 5, 176. 
(2) But see, while idly I stood looking on, 
I found the effect of Love-in-Idleness. 
Taming of the Shrew, i. 1, 155. 
(3) Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell; 
It fell upon a little western flower, 
Before milk-white, now purple with love’s wound, 
And maidens call it Love-in-Idleness. 
Fetch me that flower! the herb I showed thee once; 
The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid 
Will make or man or woman madly dote 
Upon the next live creature that it sees. 
Midsummer Night’s Dream , ii. 1, 165. 
(4) Diana’s Bud o’er Cupid’s flower 
Hath such free and blessed power.— Ibid., iv. 1, 78. 
The Pansy is one of the oldest favourites in English gardens, 
and the affection for it is shown in the many names that were 
given to it. The Anglo-Saxon name was Banwort or Bone wort, 
though why such a name was given to it we cannot now say. 
Nor can we satisfactorily explain its common names of Pansy or 
Pawnee (from the French pensees —“ that is, for thoughts,” says 
Ophelia), or Heart’s-ease, 1 which name was originally given to 
the Wallflower. The name Cupid’s flower seems to be peculiar 
to Shakespeare, but the other name, Love-in-idle, or idleness, is 
1 “The Pansie Heart’s-ease Maidens call.”—D rayton, Ec., ix. 
