Like Pearles, which will show rarely:
Then with these Marygolds Ile make
My Garland somewhat swelling, 130
These Honysuckles then Ile take,
Whose sweets shall helpe their smelling:
The Lilly and the Flower delice,
For colour much contenting,
For that, I them doe only prize,
They are but pore in senting:
The Daffadill most dainty is
To match with these in meetnesse;
The Columbyne compar’d to this,
All much alike for sweetnesse. 140
These in their natures onely are
Fit to embosse the border,
Therefore Ile take especiall care
To place them in their order:
Sweet-Williams, Campions, Sops-in-Wine
One by another neatly:
Thus haue I made this Wreath of mine,
And finished it featly.
Lelipa.
Your Garland thus you finisht haue,
Then as we haue attended
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Your leasure, likewise let
me craue
I may the like be friended.
Those gaudy garish Flowers
you chuse,
In which our Nimphes are flaunting,
Which they at Feasts and Brydals
vse,
The sight and smell inchanting:
A Chaplet me of Hearbs Ile
make
Then which though yours be
brauer,
Yet this of myne I’le
vndertake
Shall not be short in fauour.
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With Basill then I will begin,
Whose scent is wondrous pleasing,
This Eglantine I’le
next put in,
The sense with sweetnes seasing.
Then in my Lauender I’le
lay,
Muscado put among it,
And here and there a leafe
of Bay,
Which still shall runne along
it.
Germander, Marieram, and Tyme
Which vsed are for strewing,
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With Hisop as an hearbe most
pryme
Here in my wreath bestowing.
Then Balme and Mynt helps
to make vp
My Chaplet, and for Tryall,
Costmary that so likes the
Cup,
And next it Penieryall
Then Burnet shall beare vp
with this
Whose leafe I greatly fansy,
Some Camomile doth not amisse,
With Sauory and some Tansy,
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Then heere and there I’le
put a sprig
Of Rosemary into it
Thus not too little or too
big
Tis done if I can doe it.
Clarinax.
Claia your Garland is most gaye,
Compos’d of curious
Flowers,
And so most louely Lelipa,
This Chaplet is of yours,
In goodly Gardens yours you
get
Where you your laps haue laded;
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My symples are by Nature set,
In Groues and Fields vntraded.
Your Flowers most curiously
you twyne,
Each one his place supplying.