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whose duty it is to put it into the oven wants to put it 

 in he will not be able to do so, but it will fly out. 



Albertus Magnus, " Of the Wonders of the World." 



Rose. 



AMONG all flowers of the world, the flower of the Rose 

 is chief, and beareth the price. And therefore oft the chief 

 part of man, the head, is crowned with flowers of Roses. 

 Of green Roses aqua rosacea [rose-water] is made by seething 

 of fire, or of the sun, and this water is good in ointment 

 for ladies, for it cleanseth away webs and foul specks of 

 the face, and maketh the skin thin and subtle. Powder of 

 dry Roses comforteth wagging teeth that be in point to fall. 



Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvii. 136. 



DODONEUS writeth of ten kind of Roses, among the 

 which the Eglantine Rose, and Musk'- Rose, yellow and 

 white. There is one Rose growing in England is worth 

 all these Rosa sine spina [by which he seems to mean 

 Queen Elizabeth, and he breaks ofF into a discourse to the 

 other flowers on self-indulgence, pillage of the clergy, op- 

 pression of the poor, etc.]. 



Batrttaffs addition to Bartholomew, loc. cit. 



[Gerard (" Herbal," s.v.} describes the following sorts of Roses : 

 the White, the Red, the Provence or Damask, the Rose with- 

 out prickles, the Holland or Provence, the Single and Double 

 Musk-Rose, the Great Musk-Rose, the Velvet, the Yellow, the 

 Double Yellow, the Double and Single Cinnamon. Of wild 

 Roses : the Eglantine or Sweetbriar, the Double Eglantine, the 

 Briar or Hip-tree, and the Pimpernell or Burnet. He saith 

 further that " the distilled water of Roses being put into junketting 

 dishes, cakes, sauces and many other pleasant things giveth a 

 fine and delectable taste. The making of the crude or raw 

 conserve is very well known, as also sugar roset, and divers 

 other pretty things made of sugar and Roses, which are imperti- 

 nent unto our history, because I intend neither to make thereof 

 an apothecary's shop, nor a sugar-baker's storehouse, leaving 

 the rest for our cunning confectioners." 



Rose-water was used to wash in ("Taming of the Shrew," 

 Induction, i, 57), and to mix with wine. "A cheater meeting 



