"As this devoted wax melts o'er the fire,
Let Myndian Delphis melt with soft desire."
THEOCRITUS.

---------------"Hæc ut cera liquescit."
-------------"Sic nostro Daphnis amore."
VIRGIL.

For a woman to compose a garland was always considered an indication of
her being in love. Aristophanes says,

"The wreathing garlands in a woman is
The usual symptom of a love-sick mind."

Should the charms resorted to by lovers two thousand years ago, appear to
you, even remotely, to have influenced the love rites as performed by the
village men and maidens of the present day, perhaps you may deem this
string of quotations worthy of a corner in your amusing miscellany.

E.

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LINES

_On the Sarcophagus[2] which contains the remains of Nelson in St. Paul's
Cathedral._