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pany at Paris with a sprig of orange flowers 

 in her bosom, was thus complimented by a 

 Frenchman for the clearness of her com- 

 plexion, at the same time that he gave her a 

 delicate hint that her bosom was more ex- 

 posed than modesty allowed. 



" Lovely Tory, why the jest, 



Of wearing orange in thy breast ? 

 Since this breast so clearly shows 

 The whiteness of the rebel rose." 



That both the white and the red rose were 

 formerly considered rebellious emblems, the 

 blood of our ancestors has fully proved. 



" And here I prophesy. — 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." 



Shakspeare. 



The idea of taking a red or a white rose, as 

 an ensign for the parties who caused such 

 dreadful devastation in this country for many 

 ages, seems to have originated in the Temple 

 Gardens of London, if we may trust to poeti- 

 cal history, that says in King Henry the Sixth, 



" Within the Temple Hall we were too loud ; 

 The garden here is more convenient." 



In this scene Richard Plantagenet, Duke of 

 York, is made to say, 



