FOOTNOTES:
[13:1] Numbers xxiv. 6; Psalms xlv. 8; Proverbs vii. 17; Canticles iv. 14; John xix. 39.
[14:1] In the emblems of Camerarius (No. 92) is a picture of a room with an Aloe suspended.
ANEMONE.
| By this, the boy that by her side lay kill'd Was melted like a vapour from her sight, And in his blood that on the ground lay spill'd, A purple flower sprung up chequer'd with white. Resembling well his pale cheeks, and the blood Which in round drops upon their whiteness stood. | ||
| Venus and Adonis (1165). | ||
Shakespeare does not actually name the Anemone, and I place this passage under that name with some doubt, but I do not know any other flower to which he could be referring.
The original legend of the Anemone as given by Bion was that it sprung from the tears of Venus, while the Rose sprung from Adonis' blood—
ἆιμα ροδον τίκτει. τά δέ δάκρυα τάν ἀνεμώναν.