"If Colin but for Daphne's hair A simple garland weave, He gives it with so sweet an air He seems a crown to give.

Tommaso Bigordi, a goldsmith, was so clever in designing a pretty garland for women's hair that he was called Ghirlandaio, the garland-maker, and his painter son Domenico is therefore known for ever as Uomenico Ghirlandaio.

shall those flowers that deck'd thy garland erst, Upon thy grave be wastefully dispersed?

Near the house lay out also a garden with garland flowers and vegetables of all kinds, and set it about with myrtle hedges, both white and black, as well as Delphic and Cyprian laurel.

Come with me, and I will show Where the fragrant wild-flowers grow; We will weave a garland gay For our smiling Queen of May.

Now to the song and doe this garland grace.

You cannot imagine anything so exquisite as the perfect curtains of yellow jasmine with which this whole island is draped; and as the boat comes sweeping down towards the point, the fragrance from the thickets hung with their golden garlands greets one before one can distinguish them; it is really enchanting.

Randal fell to sketching, the girls to their garland-making, and for a little while the sunny woodland nook was full of lively chat and pleasant laughter, for the air exhilarated them all like wine.

Pair after pair, along his sacred groves 470 To Hymen's fane the bright procession moves; Each smiling youth a myrtle garland shades, And wreaths of roses veil the blushing maids; Light joys on twinkling feet attend the throng, Weave the gay dance, or raise the frolic song; 475 Thick, as they pass, exulting Cupids fling Promiscuous arrows from the sounding string;

Lucretius, like a fort, did stand 37 Untouch'd, till your victorious hand Did from his head this garland bear, Which now upon your own you wear: A garland made of such new bays, And sought in such untrodden ways, As no man's temples e'er did crown, Save this great author's, and your own!

Beneath an arch of myrtles, climbing vines, And canopy,with wreathing flowers it shines, There stands a wondrous garland-wreathèd throne, Where maids are gathered;each unmarried one.

So wee, that earst in ioyance did abound, And in the bosome of all blis did sit, Like virgin queenes, with laurell garlands cround, For vertues meed and ornament of wit,