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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
FOLLY. 
Columbine .— Aquilegia. 
-“ And entwine 
The white, the blue, the flesh-like columbine.” 
W. Browne. 
This flower is made the emblem of folly, 
either on account of its party-coloured corolla, 
or in allusion to the shape of its nectary, which 
turns over like the cap of the old jesters. 
The above-mentioned poet says, 
“ The columbine in tawny often taken. 
Is then ascribed to such as are forsaken.” 
The foxglove having some resemblance to 
the cap and the bells, has induced the poets 
to make it also symbolical of folly. 
“ Love is blind, and lovers cannot see 
The pretty follies that themselves commit.” 
Shakspeure. 
