Martha Glowacki’s Natural History, Observations and Reflections Martha Glowacki’s Natural History | Page 51

what art thou talking of wait two years Think Man & Know how to Value so great a Rarity I Read of it & Seen It Figur’d in Books, but despaired of ever Possessing it— As thou grudgest the Time & so little Esteems It I shall be Carefull where I cast my Pearls another time my Botanic Genius carried Mee into a Garden where I expected to find Nothing— For I waited almost all my lifetime for to get this Rare flower on a Sudden my Eyes was ravished with the Sight of this flower and my Heart leaped for Joy—that I should find it at last 47