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The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare

Note 74:1 — DAFFODILS.[73:1]

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"The cup in the centre of the flower is supposed to contain the tears of Narcissus, to which Milton alludes; . . . and Virgil in the following—

'Pars intra septa domorum Narcissi lacrymas . . . ponunt.'"—Flora Domestica, 268.

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