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Updated: May 14, 2025

And said: 'Unhappy Daphnis, wherefore dost thou languish, while for thee the maiden by all the fountains, through all the glades is fleeting, in search of thee? Ah! thou art too laggard a lover, and thou nothing availest! A neatherd wert thou named, and now thou art like the goatherd: Begin, ye Muses dear, begin the pastoral song!

of Phlossa near Smyrna Bion - Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose

Cockayne, in his "Saxon Leechdoms," mentions an old poem descriptive of the virtues of the mugwort: "Thou hast might for three, And against thirty, For venom availest For plying vile things." So, too, certain plants of the saints acquired a notoriety for specific virtues; and hence St.

T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton) Dyer - The Folk-lore of Plants