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THINK OF ME; 
PANSY, OR HEART’S-EASE. 

——-pray you, love, remember, 
There’s pansies—that’s for thoughts. 
SHAKSPEARE. 
Te tints of this flower are scarce less varied 
than the names that .have been bestowed upon 
it. That of pansy is a corruption of the French 
name, pensée, thought. 
Leigh Hunt introduces the heart’s-ease into 
his verses. 
The garden’s gem, 
Heart’s-ease, like a gallant bold, 
In his cloth of purple and gold. 
Phillips observes that the most brilliant 
purples of the artist appear dull when compared 
to that of the pansy; our richest satins and 
velvets coarse and unsightly by a comparison of 
texture; and, as to delicacy of shading, it is 
scarcely surpassed by the bow of Iris itself. 
Pansies are among the flowery gifts of the 
simple shepherds to the metamorphosed nymph 
Sabrina, 
The shepherds at their festivals 
Carol her good deeds loud in rustic lays, 
And throw sweet garland wreaths into her stream, 
Of pansies, pinks, and gaudy daffodils. 
COMUS. 


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