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Marygold. 
Chatterton, alluding to its having given in its adherence to 
the early closing movement, calls it 
“The Marybudde, that shutteth with the light.” 
And Browne, in his “ Britannia’s Pastorals,” says : 
* ‘ But, maiden, see, the day is waxen olde, 
And ’gins to shut in with the marygolde.” 
Whilst ever-watchful Shakspeare remarks in “ Cymbeline,” 
that when “Phoebus ’gins arise,” the “winking marybuds 
begin to ope their golden eyes.” 
Another noteworthy property of this flower is that it lasts 
out all its floral compeers, and continues blooming until 
stopped by the frost. In her “ Farewell to the Flowers in 
Autumn,” Mrs. Sigourney acknowledges this virtue of the 
neglected plant: 
“ Coarse marygold, in days of yore I scorned thy tawny face, 
But since my plants are frail and few, I ’ve given thee welcome place.” 
Keats pays more heed to the natural attractions of this 
flower, and sings: 
“ Open afresh your round of starry folds, 
Ye ardent marygolds! 
Dry up the moisture of your golden lids, 
For great Apollo bids 
That in these days your praises shall be sung 
On many harps, which he has lately strung; 
And then again your dewiness he kisses— 
Tell him I have you in my world of blisses : 
So haply when I rove in some far vale, 
His mighty voice may come upon the gale.” 
Marguerite of Orleans, the maternal grandmother of Henry 
the Great of France, to express how all her thoughts and 
affections were directed towards Heaven, adopted for her ar¬ 
morial device a marygold turning towards the sun, with the 
motto, “ Je ne veux suivre que lui suel 
Chaucer frequently mentions these flowers under their an¬ 
cient name of “ goldes,” and, in “The Knight’s Tale,” bestows 
a garland of them upon Jealousy, yellow being the colour 
deemed emblematical of that passion. 
The marygold is sometimes considered the florigraphical 
sign of prediction , because it is used by our lads and lasses, as 
