HEART S-EASE. 
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Another of its names is “love-in-idleness,” under 
which it has been again celebrated by Shakspeare. 
Besides these names, this tricoloured violet is also 
called, in various country places, “ jump-up-and-kiss-me- 
quick“the herb Trinity « three-faces-under-a-hood 
“ kiss-me-behind-the-garden-gate and “ cuddle-me-to- 
you,” which seems to have been altered by time into 
the less vivacious request of “ call-me-to-you.” 
HEARTS EASE. 
MARY HOWITT. 
Heart’s-ease ! one could look for half a day 
Upon this flower, and shape in fancy out 
Full twenty different tales of love and sorrow, 
That gave this gentle name. 
ORIGIN OF THE PANSY’S NAME. 
(“ Love in Idleness .”) 
Told by Oberon, King of the Fairies, to Puck.— Shakspeare. 
Oberon. My gentle Puck, come hither; thou re 
member’st 
Since once I sat upon a promontory, 
And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin’s back, 
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, 
That the rude sea grew civil at her song, 
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres 
To hear the sea-maid’s music. 
Puck. I remember. 
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