FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
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“ Moreover you must be sure to give every 
moneth his proper and naturall landtskip, not 
making (as a painter of my acquaintance did 
in several! tables of the moneths for a noble¬ 
man of this land) blossomes upon the trees in 
December, and schoole-boyes, playing at nine 
pinnes upon the yce in July.” 
We derive the names of the months from 
classical languages, and those of the days from 
the Gothic tongue. 
