And on the moꝛowe / Moſes went in to the tabernacle: and beholde / the rod of Aaron of the houſſe of Leui was budded ⁊ bare bloſomes and almondes. – Numbers, 17, 8, xxxiiij, 1
Foppiſh and fantaſtick Ornaments are only Indications of Vice, not criminal in themſelves. Extinguiſh Vanity in the Mind, and you naturally retrench the little Superfluities of Garniture and Equipage. The Bloſſoms will fall of themſelves, when the Root that nouriſhes them is deſtroyed. – Joseph Addison; w:Richard Steele, The Spectator, London, S[amuel] Buckley,; and J[acob] Tonson,, 1712, I, 16, 642176139, 16 March 1711
Winter, spring, and summer, passed away during my labours; but I did not watch the blossom or the expanding leaves—sights which before always yielded me supreme delight, so deeply was I engrossed in my occupation. – I
This beauty, in the blossom of my youth, / When my first fire knew no adulterate incense, / Nor I no way to flatter, but my fondness; / long did I love this lady, / Long was my travail, long my trade to win her; / With all the duty of my soul, I served her. – Philip Massinger, Three New Playes: viz. , Guardian, Very Woman., A Very Woman, London, ,, 1655, act IV, scene iii, 606994547, W[illiam] Gifford, The Plays of Philip Massinger,, IV, London, [F]or G[eorge] and W[illiam] Nicol [et al.] by W[illiam] Bulmer and Co.,, 1805, 317, https://books.google.com./books?id=1WM-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA317, 277732987, c. 1619–1622
For colour he was neither black-bay, brown-bay, dapple-bay, black-grey, iron-grey, sad-grey, branded-grey, sandy-grey, dapple-grey, silver-grey, dun, mouse-dun, flea-backed, flea-bitten, rount, blossom, roan, pye-bald, rubican, sorrel, cow-coloured sorrel, bright sorrel, burnt sorrel, starling-colour, tyger-colour, wolf-colour, deer-colour, cream-colour, white, grey or black. Neither was he green, like the horse which the Emperor Severus took from the Parthians, – Robert Southey, The Doctor, &c., A Feeble Attempt to Describe the Physical and Moral Qualities of Nobs, John Wood Warter, London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 18206450, new, London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862, 77702111, 358, https://books.google.com/books?id=5nZKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA358, 2, 1834–1847
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