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FLORAL 
THE GILLYFLOWER. 
DRAYTON. 
THE curious, choice, clove July flower, 
Whose kinds, hight the carnation, 
For sweetness of most sovereign power 
Shall help my wreath to fashion ; 
Whose sundry colors of one kind, 
First from one root derived, 
Them in their several suits 1 bind, 
My garland so contrived. 
FOXGLOVE. 
(Insineerity,) 
ae Foxglove typifies insincerity, because of the 
insidious poison which lurks within its bright 
blossom. In France and Germany, and in some parts 
of England, it is known as “ Finger-flower,” because 
of the resemblance it bears to the finger of a glove, a 
resemblance which the poets have not failed to take 
advantage of. William Brown describes Pan as seek- 
ing gloves for his mistress : 
** To keep her slender fingers from the sunne, 
Pan through the pastures oftentimes hath runne 
To pluck the speckled foxgloves from their stem, 
And on those fingers neatly placéd them. 


