Will you accept from me my laurel crown?
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
Had the painting been preserved, as it deserved to be, surely it too could claim a part of that laurel wreath which Sandrart averred could not be torn from the Basel altar-piece by any rival, whether Italian or German.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
Farquhar, in a comedy called "Love and a Bottle," brought out in 1698, says, "a full wig is imagined to be as infallible a token of wit as the laurel."
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews