Careful Words

pansy (n.)

Cornelia.  What flowers are these?

Gazetta.  The pansy this.

Cor.  Oh, that's for lovers' thoughts.

George Chapman (1557-1634): All Fools. Act ii. Sc. 1.

So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed,

And yet anon repairs his drooping head,

And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore

Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.

John Milton (1608-1674): Lycidas. Line 168.