Whose love prepost’rous gave a flow’r a name.

XLVII.

The proud Carnation dipp’d in brightest dyes,

Who still with thirst of praise and glory burns;

With her whose mirrour cheats deluded eyes[8],

And she that still to her lov’d Phœbus turns[9].

XLVIII.

There, with their num’rous chiefs of diff’rent hues,

The painted Cock’s Comb, and his lofty train,

Their beauties vaunting, to the rest refuse