176 SYLVA FLORIFERA. 



It was, as is pretended, upon the marriage 

 of Henry the Seventh, to Elizabeth, the 

 daughter of Edward the Fourth, that the rose 

 first appeared with mixed petals of red and 

 white, which is still acknowledged throughout 

 Europe, as the emblem of that happy union, 

 by the name of " York and Lancaster 

 Rose." 



Having just met with some verses on the 

 white rose, entitled the " Lament of the 

 Year 1745," we give them as being connected 

 with the contending houses, and not as our 

 party spirit, for we may safely say, as the Earl 

 of Warwick did to John Beaufort, Duke of 

 Somerset, 



" Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye, 

 I have, perhaps, some shallow spirit of judgement, 

 But in these nice sharp quillets of the law, 

 Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw." 



" Oh, thou pale, snowy rosebud, though rent and laid low 



By the rude hand of power in the day of despair, 

 Yet thou still in the breasts of the loyal shalt blow, 



Full as lovely, as fragrant, as fresh, and as fair. 

 Though our bosoms no longer may glow with the dream 



Of royalty righted, and exiles restored, 

 Yet still they may swell with the rapturous theme 



Of the faith they long cherish'd, the prince they adored ; 

 And still they in silence may weep o'er the woes, 

 Endured by the chieftains who bore the white rose. 



