INTRODUCTION. 
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I strait will whisper in your ears, 
The sweets of love are washt with teares. 
Aske me why this flow’r doth show 
So yellow, green and sickly too; 
Aske me why the stalk is weak, 
And bending, yet it doth not break ; 
I must tell you, these discover 
What doubts and fears are in a Lover. 
The following lines from Drayton’s Muses 
Elysium may afford some useful hints for the 
arrangement of a bouquet, with regard to the 
harmonious blending of the tints of the different 
flowers. A nymph is supposed to be speaking: 
Here damask roses, white and red, 
Out of my lap first take I, v 
Which still shall run along the thread: 
My chiefest flower this make I. 
Amongst these roses in a row, 
Next place I pinks in plenty, 
These double-pansies then for show, 
And will not this be dainty? 
The pretty pansy then I’ll tye 
Like stones some chain inchasing ; 
And next to them, their near ally, 
The purple violet placing. 
The curious choice clove Julyflower, 
Whose kind hight the carnation, 
For sweetness of most sovereign power, 
Shall help my wreath to fashion ; 
