Lavender

"here’s your sweet lavender

sixteen sprigs a penny

that you’ll find my ladies

will smell as sweet as any"

Lavender Sellers’s Cry, London England CA 1900

"ladies fair, I bring to you

lavender with spikes of blue;

sweeter plant was never found

growing on our english ground."

Caryl Battersby

"And lavender, whose spikes of azure bloom

shall be, ere-while, in arid bundles bound

to lurk admist the labours of her loom,

and crown her kerchiefs witl mickle rare perfume."

William Shenstone The School Mistress 1742

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