FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
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FLATTERY. 
Venus’s Looking-glass. —Campanula Speculum. 
“ Nothing so much intoxicates the brain 
As flatt’ry’s smooth insinuating bane : 
She on th’ unguarded ear employs her art. 
While vain self-love unlocks the yielding heart; 
And reason off submits, when both invade. 
Without assaulted, and within betray’d.” 
Fenton. 
The brilliant corollas of this little plant 
have gained it the name of Venus’s looking- 
glass ; and on this account it is made the em¬ 
blem of reflection as well as of flattery. 
“ The eye sees not itself. 
But by reflection from other things.” 
Shakspeare. 
