FCORAL CEREMONIES. 
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Bring sweet carnations, and sops in wine. 
Worn of paramours. 
Strew me the ground with daff-a-down-dillies, 
And cowslips, and kingcups, and loved lilies. 
The pretty paunce, 
And the chevisaunce, 
Shall match with the flower-de-luce.” 
M. Drayton. 
Let us follow the singers through yon grove of 
myrtles into the open space beyond, where 
upon a grassy hillock, a throne is erected, of 
turf, overarched with boughs reft from the 
neighboring trees, and literally covered with 
wreaths and clusters of the fairest flowers; and 
io ! the queen !— 
“ See where she sits upon the grassie greene, 
A seemly sight! 
Yclad in scarlet, like a maj den queene, 
And ermines white. 
Upon her head a crimson coronet, 
With daffodils and damask roses set: 
Bay-leaves betweene, 
And primroses greene 
Embellish the sweete violet.”— Spencer. 
