6 NATURAL HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE . 
1 Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; 
Sonnet XXXV. 
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem 
For that sweet odour which doth in it live. 
The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye 
As the perfumed tincture of the roses, 
Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly 
When summer s breath their masked buds 
discloses; 
But, for their virtue only is their show, 
They live unwoo’d, and unrespected fade; 
Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so; 
Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made : 
Sonnet LIV. 
LILY. 
Princess. ... by my maiden honour, yet as 
pure 
As the unsullied lily, 
Love's Labour’s Lost, Act v. Scene 2. 
Constance. Of Nature’s gifts thou mayst with lilies 
boast, 
Salisbury. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, 
..Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess. 
King John, Act iii. Scene 1; Act iv. Scene 2. 
Queen Katherine. like the lily, 
That once was mistress of the field and flourish’d, 
I’ll hang my head and perish. 
