Flowers Florizel dresses Perdita up as Flora and she gives flowers to her guests: rosemary, rue, daffodils, violets, 'pale primroses'…(4.4.118-124) The great debate Perdita calls carnations Nature's bastards Polixenes says cross-breeding is an Art which does mend Nature (4.4.95-7) Elizabethans loved discussing the relationship between Art and Nature The vital point is that the relationship is genrative Irony in the stances they take
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