¶ Love-joy.
AS on a window late I cast mine eye, I saw a vine drop grapes with J and C Anneald on every bunch. One standing by Askd what it meant. I, who am never loth To spend my judgement, said, It seemd to me To be the bodie and the letters both Of Joy and Charitie. Sir, you have not missd, The man replyd; It figures JESUS CHRIST. |
Arcane Note From John Gerard's The Herball or Generall History of Plantes, 1633, p.193f.: There is a Lilly which Ouid, Metamorph, lib,10. calls Hyacinchus, of the boy Hyacinthus, of whose blood he feighneth that this floure sprang, when he perished as he was playing with Apollo, for whose sake, he saith, that Apollo did print certain letters and notes of his mourning. These are his words: . . . |
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