...scattered throughout the productions of our early poets. Thus Shakespeare's Arvigarus in Cymbeline : With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave : ***** Yea, and furr'd moss, besides, when flowers arc none, To winter-ground thy corse. The Hainanese...

...harebell, for her stainless azured hue, Claims to be worn by none but those are true.' W. Browne. ' thou shalt not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor The azured harebell, like thy veins.' Shakspeare. ' E'en the light harebell raised its head, Uninjured...

...for her stainless azured hue, Claims to be worn by none but those are true.' W. Browne. * thou shall not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor The azured harebell, like thy veins.' Shakspcare. ' E'en the light harebell raised its head, Uninjured...

...his grave a bed ; With female fairies will his tomb be haunted, And worms will not come to thee. Are. With fairest flowers Whilst summer lasts, and I live...that's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor The azur'd hare-belt, like thy veins ; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy...

...ambitious sought a match of birth, Whose veins bound richer blood than lady Blanch ? O dear Phebe, With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live...sweeten thy sad grave : Thou shalt not lack The flower, that 's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor The azur'd hare-bell, like thy veins ; no, nor The leaf...

...fairest flowers, ' Whilst summer lasts, and 1 live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave; thou shall not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose; nor The azured harebell like thy veins ; no, nor The leaf of eglantine; whom not to slander, Outsweetened not...

...just claim to the epithet poetical. They have stamped immortality on the Hyacinth of modern times. -" With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: thoushalt not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor The azured harebell, like thy...

...commonly known, and which is applied to it in several parts of Shakspeare, as thus in Cymbeline: — Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll...flower that's like thy face, pale primrose; nor The azured hare-bell, like thy veins; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd...

...Barnes. It still exists in some parts of this island. Shakspeare alludes to it in Cymbeline, A. iv. S. v. with fairest flowers, " Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, " I'll sweeten thy sad grave." Whence Collins, with remarkable taste and pathos ; " TO fair Fidele's grassy tomb, " Soft maids, and...

...grave. Weed, in old language, meant garment. 4 So in Cymbeline : — ' - with fairest flmvers While summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave.' The old copy reads, ' Shall as a carpet hang,' &c. the emendation is by Steevens. 5 Thus the earliest...