FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
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FATE. 
Flax (in a green state, with the flower).— Linum. 
“ Courage uncertain dangers may abate ; 
But, who can bear the approach of certain fate ?” 
Dry den. 
“ Random chance, or wilful fate, 
Guides the shaft from Cupid’s bow.” 
A. Philips. 
We learn from Pierius Valerianus, that flax 
was the hieroglyphic of fate among the Egyp¬ 
tians ; and we may presume, that the emblem 
originated from its use in the bow. 
“ The whizzing arrow sings. 
And bears thy fate, Antinous, on its wings.” 
Pope. 
Peacham says, “ Fate is drawn like a man 
in a long flaxen robe, looking upward to cer¬ 
tain bright stars compressed about with thick 
clouds, from whence hangs a chain of gold, 
which signifies the conjunction of divine with 
