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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
CUPID AND PSYCHE. 
YOUR ANGER CAUSES ME PAIN, YOUR FRIENDSHIP 
AND LOVE ARE AN EVERLASTING PLEASURE. 
Emblems. 
ANGER— GORSE: PAIN OR GRIEF— MARIGOLD: FRIEND* 
SHIP— ACACIA: EVERLASTING PLEASURE —SWEET PEA. 
“ Fly, Zephyrus ! on top of yonder mount 
My fair love sits; on thy soft swelling wings 
Let Psyche ride: you, Voices, that attend me. 
Dance in the air, like wantons, to entice 
My love to dwell in Cupid’s paradise; 
Music, with ravishing tones enchant her ears: 
She that doth Cupid wed, thus shall she live.” 
The Queen’s Mask, 1615. 
In that primitive and patriarchal age, when wealth 
consisted in the possession of flocks and herds, and 
the early fathers pitched their tents and made their 
homes wherever the sweetest pasturage could he 
found for their cattle, or the clearest streams went 
