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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
chapiter, it has been very properly made em- 
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blematical of art. 
“ The art of our necessities is strange, 
That can make vile things precious.” 
Shakspeare. 
ARTIFICE. 
Virgin’s-bower .— Clematis jlammula . 
“ Clematis, wreath afresh thy garden bower.” 
“ And virgin’s bower, trailing airily.” 
Keats. 
When artifice is innocently resorted to for 
the purpose of giving pleasure, it may be com¬ 
pared to the agreeable fragrance of the sweet 
clematis. But when it is used to entangle the 
unwary, it becomes the agent of him whom 
Milton thus describes; 
“ He, soon aware, 
Each perturbation smooth’d with outward calm, 
Artificer of fraud ! and was the first 
That practis’d falsehood under saintly show.” 
