LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
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marmalade is said to come from the Portuguese name of the 
quince, marmelo. The seeds are used for jelly, bandoline, and 
mucilage, though these last preparations do not keep long. 
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Quince pie was anciently esteemed a delicacy. In Romeo 
and Juliet, the nurse tells Lady Capulet,— 
“ They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.” 
The Graces, Hundred-Leaved Rose. 
When the Graces attend the Muses, they wear wreaths of 
this rose. 
Thought, Pansy. 
“And there is pansies; that’s for thoughts.” 
Shakspeare. 
“ Lilies for a bridal bed, 
Koses for a matron’s head, 
Yiolets for a maiden dead; 
Pansies let my flowers be.” 
Shelley. 
There is no end of fanciful names for this flower, such as, 
three faces under a hood, heart’s-ease, kiss-me-quick, ladies’- 
delight, love-in-idleness, and, among the Germans, little step¬ 
mother. Shakspeare’s famous compliment to Queen Eliza¬ 
beth gives us its origin : — 
“ That very time I saw (but thou couldst not), 
Flying between the cold moon and the earth, 
Cupid all armed: a certain aim he took 
At a fair vestal, throned by the west, 
And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, 
As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts. 
But I might see young Cupid’s fiery shaft 
Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon; 
And the imperial votaress passed on, 
In maiden meditation, fancy free. 
Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell. 
It fell upon a little western flower, 
Before, milk-white; now, purple with love’s wound, 
And maidens call it love-in-idleness.” 
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