36 Loves Garland. 
then, that I find myself in a land of flowers 
where the posy, 
*¢ Amor omnia vincit,”’ 
is supreme. The words “Away with those 
false disciples who hold that this divine 
science has no other end but that of making 
gold and silver,” ring in my ears. 
If I have failed to discover to you the 
Philosopher’s Stone, let me at any raté& 
venture to hope that you may gather pleasure 
from the perusal of the little book I now 
offer you,— 
*¢ Loves Garland,” ete. 
Possibly the utterances of hearts that lived 
over a period of three hundred years from 
the present time may vibrate with your own, 
and you may not think my labours with the 
crucible altogether in vain. Possibly in these 
quaint and sentimental love-thoughts you, in 
your turn, may discover those “arcana tinc- 
tures and elixirs” which, the great master of 
