Flowers and Gardens

This silent war of lilies and of roses, Which Tarquin view’d in her fair face’s field.

And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies. 2

By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. 2

Sweetheart, come see if the rose Which at morning began to unclose Its damask gown to the sun Has not lost, now the day is done, The folds of its damasked gown And its colors so like your own.

May, with alle thy floures and thy grene, Welcome be thou, faire, fresshe May.

Whan that the month of May Is comen, and that I here the foules synge, And that the floures gynnen for to sprynge, Farewel my bok, and my devocioun!

That, of al the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most thise floures white and rede, Swiche as men callen daysyes in our toun.

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect.