2 o8 PLANT-LORE OF SHAKESPEARE 
said to be still in use in Warwickshire, and signifies love in vain, 
or to no purpose, as in Chaucer : “ The prophet David saith ; 
If God ne kepe not the citee, in ydel waketh he that keptit 
it.” 1 And in Tyndale’s transla¬ 
tion of the New Testament, “ I 
have prechid to you, if ye holden, 
if ye hav not bileved ideli ” (i 
Cor. xv. 2). “ Beynge plenteuous 
in werk of the Lord evermore, 
witynge that youre traveil is not 
idel in the Lord ” (1 Cor. xv. 58). 
But beside these more common 
names, Dr. Prior mentions the 
following : “ Herb Trinity, Three 
faces under a hood, Fancy, 
Flamy, 2 Kiss me, Cull me or 
Cuddle me to you, Tickle my 
fancy, Kiss me ere I rise, Jump 
up and kiss me, Kiss me at the garden gate, Pink of my John, 
and several more of the same amatory character.” 
Spenser gives the flower a place in his “ Royal aray ” for 
Elisa— 
“ Strowe me the grounde with Daffadowndillies, 
And Cowslips, and Kingcups, and loved Lillies, 
The pretie Pawnee, 
And the Chevisaunce 
Shall match with the fayre Flower Delice.” 
1 And again— 
“The other heste of hym is this, 
Take not in ydel my name or amys .”—Pardoners Tale . 
‘ ‘ Eterne God, that through thy purveance 
Ledest this world by certein governance, 
In idel, as men sein, ye nothinge make.” 
The Frankelynes Tale. 
2 “ Flamy, because its colours are seen in the flame of wood .”—Flora 
Domestica, 166. 
