







L60 INJUSTICE, 
skin. Shakspeare mentions it as the cuckoo 
flower in King Lear,— 
Nettles, cuckoo flowers, 
Darnel, and all the wild weeds. 
And Clare, the Northamptonshire poet, alludes 
to its ungrateful qualities in some lines on the 
“Eternity of Nature :” detailing his morning’s 
walk, he says, 
I wander out and rhyme; 
What hour the dewy morning’s infancy 
Hangs on each blade of grass and every tree, 
And sprents the red thighs of the humble bee, 
Who ’gins betimes unwearied minstrelsy ; 
Who breakfasts, dines, and most divinely sups 
With every flower save golden buttercups,— 
On whose proud bosoms he will never go, 
But passes by with scarcely ‘ How do ye do,’ 
Since in their showy, shining, gaudy cells, 
Haply the summer’s honey never dwells. 
INJUSTICE. 
HOP. 
Tuis plant will grow only in rich soils. It 
is called lupulus by naturalists; and, according 
to Pliny, was so named because it grew among 
the willows; to them by twining round and 
choking them up, it proved as destructive as the 
wolf to the flock. 
