Brewer's: Celandine

a shepherdess in love with Marina. Finding his suit too easily granted, he waxed cold, and discarded the “matchless beauty.” (W. Browne: Britannia's Pastorals; 1613.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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