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The collection presents a series of short allegorical poems that personify flowers, garden spirits, and the seasons to offer gentle moral reflections aimed at a female readership. A framing vision depicting Zephyrus and Flora opens the sequence, followed by individual fables in which lilies, roses, violets, and other plants speak or act to illuminate themes such as modesty, constancy, youth, love, mourning, and prudence. Each piece pairs vivid botanical description with a moralizing turn, often concluding with an explicit admonition or a symbolic judgment drawn from the plants' qualities.

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Title: Fables of Flowers for the Female Sex. With Zephyrus and Flora, a Vision

Author: John Huddlestone Wynne

Release date: June 23, 2021 [eBook #65677]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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FABLES OF FLOWERS,
FOR THE FEMALE SEX.
WITH
ZEPHYRUS and FLORA,
A VISION.

WRITTEN FOR THE AMUSEMENT OF

HER HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS ROYAL

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE CHOICE EMBLEMS, &C. &C.

Nature here
Wantons as in her prime, and plays at will
Her virgin fancies.
MILTON.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR GEORGE RILEY, BOOKSELLER,
IN CURZON-STREET, MAY-FAIR.

AND SOLD BY
JOHN WILKIE, ST. PAUL’S-CHURCH-YARD.
MDCCLXXIII.

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LADY CHARLOTTE FINCH.

THESE NEW FABLES
WRITTEN FOR THE AMUSEMENT

OF

HER HIGHNESS,

CHARLOTTE,

PRINCESS ROYAL OF ENGLAND.

  • ARE MOST HUMBLY DEDICATED BY
  • HER LADYSHIP’S
  • MOST HUMBLE
  • AND OBEDIENT SERVANT,
  • THE AUTHOR.