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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
PATERNAL ERROR. 
Cardamine. Cuckoo-flower, or Lady’s Smock. 
Nasturtium Pratensis. 
“ When daisies pied, and violets blue. 
And lady’s smocks all silver white. 
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue. 
Do paint the meadows with delight.” 
Shakspeare. 
This flower being one which formed the 
crown of King Lear, after he had disposed of 
his regal diadem to his children, has caused 
the emblem. 
“ He was met even now 
As mad as the vex’d sea : singing' aloud ; 
Crown’d with rank fumiter, and furrow weeds. 
With harlocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, 
Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow 
In our sustaining corn.” 
Shakspeare. 
