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peciall 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 150 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. 160 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, 170 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, 180 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; 190 My symples are by Nature set, In Groues and Fields vntraded. Your Flowers most curiously you twyne, Each one his place supplying. But these rough harsher Hearbs of mine, About me rudely lying, Of which some dwarfish Weeds there be, Some of a larger stature, Some by experience as we see, Whose names expresse their nature, 200 Heere is my Moly of much fame, In Magicks often vsed, Mugwort and Night-shade for the same But not by me abused; Here H
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