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In another complimentary poem the same Bard thus introduces the Clove Pink—

In the following dialogue poem, by the same writer, are so many sweet thoughts, I shall quote it entire—

Among the mirtles as I walk't,

Love and my sighs thus intertalk't;

Tell me, said I, in deep distresse,

Where I may find my Shepheardesse.

Thou foole, said Love, know'st thou not this?

In every thing that's sweet she is.

In yond' Carnation goe and seek,

There thou shalt find her lip and cheeke,

In that ennamell'd pansie by,

There thou shalt have her curious eye;

In bloom of peech, and rose's bud,

There waves the streamer of her blood.

'Tis true, said I, and thereupon

I went to pluck them one by one,