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CAPRICIOUSNESS. 
LADIES’ SLIPPER. 
Cypripedium. 
Language — CAPRICIOUSNESS. 
I cannot love liim : 
Yet I suppose him virtuous, know him noble ; 
Of great estate, of fresh and stainless youth; 
In voices well divulged, free, learned, and valiant, 
And in dimensions, and the shape of nature, 
A gracious person ; but yet I cannot love him. 
He might have took his answer long ago. 
Shaxspeare. 
But who can tell what cause had that fair maid 
To use him so, that loved her so well ? 
Or who with blame can justly her upbraid 
For loving not ? for who can love compel ? 
And sooth to say, it is foolhardy thing 
Rashly to whiten creatures so divine ; 
For demigods they be, and first did spring 
Tiom heaven, though graft in frailness feminine. 
Spenser. 
It is not virtue, wisdom, valor, wit, 
Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, 
That woman’s love can win ; 
But what is, hard it is to say, harder to hit. 
Milton. 
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; 
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. 
Shaxspeare. 
