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GAME, PLAY. 
GALLANTRY. 
NOSEGAY. 
Ariel sought 
The close recesses of the virgin’s thought; 
As on the nosegay in her breast reclined, 
He watched the ideas rising in her mind. 
POPE. 
A well arranged bouquet of flowers is 
the most delicate mode of paying attention 
to the fair sex that we can well imagine. 
Though the flowers themselves will soon 
fade in the possession of the fair being to 
whom they may be presented, the recollec¬ 
tion of the tender regard with which they 
were offered, will be a source of lasting 
gratification. 
GAME, PLAY. 
HYACINTH. 
The hyacinth, so celebrated in the songs 
of the poets, from the time of Homer to the 
present day, is made emblematical of games, 
or play, in allusion to the fabulous origin of 
this flower, which, according to mythologists, 
sprung from the blood of Hyacinthus, who 
was killed by a quoit, through the agency of 
