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118 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 pos- 
session of the fair being to whom they may be 
presented, the recollection of the tender regard 
with which they were offered will be a source 
of lasting gratification. 
GAME, PLAY. 
HYACINTH. 
Tue 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, 
sprang from the blood of Hyacinthus, who was 
killed by a quoit, through the agency of Zephyr, 
