e defends.

_Ibid._ (492).

(60)

Rose-cheeked Adonis hied him to the chase.

_Venus and Adonis._ (3).

(61)

A sudden pale,
Like lawn being spread upon the blushing Rose,
Usurps her cheek.

_Ibid._ (589).

(62)

That beauty's Rose might never die.

_Sonnet_ i.

(63)

Nothing this wide universe I call
Save thou, my Rose; in it thou art my all.

_Ibid._ cix.

(64)

Rosy lips and cheeks
Within time's bending sickle's compass come.

_Ibid._ cxvi.

(65)

Sweet Rose, fair flower, untimely pluck'd, soon vaded,
Pluck'd in the bud, and vaded in the spring!

_The Passionate Pilgrim_ (131).

In addition to these many passages, there are perhaps thirty more in
which the Rose is mentioned with reference to the Red and White Roses of
the houses of York and Lancaster. To quote these it would be necessary
to extract an entire act, which is very graphic, but too long. I must,
therefore, content myself with the beginning and the end of the chief
scene, and refer the reader who desires to see it _in extenso_ to "1st
Henry VI.," act ii, sc. 4. The scene is in the Temple Gardens, and
Plantagenet and Somerset thus begin the fatal quarrel--

_Plantagenet._

Let him that is a true-born gentleman
And stands upon the honour of his birth,
If he suppose that I have pleaded truth,
From off this Brier pluck a White Rose with me.

_Somerset._

Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer,
But dare maintain the party of the truth,
Pluck a Red Rose from off this Thorn with me.

And Warwick's wise conclusion on the whole matter is--

This brawl to-day,
Grown to this faction in the Temple Garden,
Shall send, between the Red Rose and the White,
A thousand souls to death and deadly night.

There are further allusions to the same Red and White Roses in "3rd
Henry VI.," act i, sc. 1 and 2, act ii, sc. 5, and act v, sc. 1; "1st
Henry VI.," act iv, sc. 1; and "Richard II