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its back a leopard, which held in one claw the 
standard of England, and in the other a daisy, 
the French name of which is Marguerite. The 
unicorn, having gone round all the tables, halted 
before the Duke, and one of the maitres d'hotel, 
faking the daisy from the leopard’s claw, pre¬ 
sented it, with a complimentary address, to the 
royal bridegroom. 
In Spain, gallantry was forced to take a dif¬ 
ferent direction ; for there the fair sex were 
kept under such rigid restraint, that a lover 
scarcely ever had an opportunity of making a 
verbal declaration to his mistress. Recourse 
was therefore had to an expressive kind of pan¬ 
tomimic language, which was learned by chil¬ 
dren of both sexes at a very early age. By this 
method lovers were enabled to hold communi¬ 
cation with each other for years without ever 
interchanging a syllable. In the reign of Charles 
IL, however, the Spanish ladies were allowed a 
greater degree of freedom; and the Gua.pos , or 
gallants of Madrid, who adopted thn fashion of 
wearing flowers in their hats, used to assemble 
in the evening on the Prado, and to present 
nosegays to the ladies in their carriages. 
