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THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
Marguerite de Valois, the friend of Erasmus and 
Calvin—the Marguerite of Marguerites—also adopted 
this flower as her device; and it was more appropriate 
certainly to the princess who withdrew from the glitter of 
courts to study her Bible than to the ambitious Lancastrian 
queen of England. 
THE DAISIE. 
CHAUCER. 
Daisie of light! very ground of comfort! 
The sunnis doughtir ye hight, as I rede, 
For when he westrith, farwell your disport; 
By your nature anone, right for pure drede 
Of the rude Night, that with his boistous wede 
Of derkenesse shadowith our hemisphere, 
Then closin ye, my liv’is ladie dere. 
Daunying the daie unto his kind resort, 
And Phoebus your fethir with his stremes rede 
Adornetn the morrowe, consuming the sort 
Of mistie cloudes, that wouldin ovirlede 
True humble hertis with ther mistie heae, 
Nere comfort adaies, when your eyin clere 
Disclose and sprede, my liv’is ladie dere. 
Je vouldray; but the grete God disposeth 
And makith casuell by His providence 
Soche thing as mannis frele wit purposeth, 
All for the best, if that your conscience 
