'Pars intra septa domorum
Narcissi lacrymas . . . ponunt.'"—Flora Domestica, 268.
[76:1] The "Quarterly Review," quoting this description, says that "few poets ever lived who could have written a description so simple and original, so vivid and descriptive." Yet it is an unconscious imitation of Homer's account of the Narcissus—
"νάρκισσόν θ' . . .
θαυμαστὸν γανόωντα; σέβας δέ τε πᾶσιν ἰδέσθαι
ἀθανάτοις τε θεοῖς ἠδὲ θνητοῖς ἀνθρώποις;
τοῦ καὶ ἀπὸ ῥίζης ἑκατὸν κάρα ἐξεπεφύκει;
κηώδει τ' ὀδμῆ πᾶς τ' οὐρανὸς εὐρὺς ὕπερθεν,
γαῖά τε πᾶσ' ἐγέλασσε, καὶ ἁλμυρὸν οἶδμα θαλάσσης."
Hymn to Demeter, 8-14.
DAISIES.
| (1) | Song of Spring. | When Daisies pied, and Violets, &c. |
| Love's Labour's Lost, act v, sc. 2 (904). (See [Cuckoo-buds].) | ||
| (2) | Lucius. | Let us Find out the prettiest Daisied plot we can, And make him with our pikes and partizans A grave. |
| Cymbeline, act iv, sc. 2 (397). | ||
| (3) | Ophelia. | There's a Daisy. |
| Hamlet, act iv, sc. 5 (183). | ||
| (4) | Queen. | There with fantastic garlands did she comeOf Crow-flowers, Nettles, Daisies, and Long Purples. |
| Ibid., act iv, sc. 7 (169). | ||
| (5) | Without the bed her other faire hand was On the green coverlet; whose perfect white Show'd like an April Daisy on the Grass. | |
| Lucrece (393). | ||
| (6) | Daisies smel-lesse, yet most quaint. | |
| Two Noble Kinsmen, Introd. song. | ||
See Appendix. I., p. [359].