122 LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
folk, and Warwick, Richard Plantagenet, nephew 
and heir of Edmund Mortimer, with Vernon, and 
another lawyer, are the characters introduced. Suf- 
folk says: 
Within the Temple Hall we were too loud: 
The garden here is more convenient. 
Plant ag. Since you are tongue-tied, and so loth to speak, 
In dumb significance proclaim yuur thoughts: 
Let him that is a true-born gentleman, 
And stands upon the honour of his birth, 
If he supposes I have pleaded truth, 
From off this 1 riar pluck a White Rose with me. 
Somers. 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. 
This example is followed by their respective 
friends, and after a threatening altercation, War- 
wick, addressing Plantagenet, says: 
In signal uf my love to thee, 
Will I upon thy party wear this Rose : 
And here I prophecy, 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. 
