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"The Adventures of Signor Gaudentio di Lucca," said to have been written by Bishop Berkeley.

"If the man be the person the woman likes, he presents her with a flower just in the bud, which she takes, and puts in her breast. If she is engaged before, she shows him one, to signify her engagement; which, if in the bud only, shows the courtship is gone no further than the first proposal and liking; if half blown, or the like, it is an emblem of further progress; if full blown, it signifies that her choice is determined, from whence they can never recede." Gaudentio di Lucca, page 182.