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Brewer's: Amaryllis
A pastoral sweetheart. The name is borrowed from the pastorals of Theocritos and Virgil.
“To sport with Amaryllis in the shade.” Milton: Lycidas, 68.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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