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(38) Such an act , , , takes off the Rose 
From the fair forehead of an innocent love, 
And sets a blister there.— Hamlet > iii. 4, 40. 
(39) When I have pluck’d the Rose, 
I cannot give it vital growth again, 
It needs must wither. I’ll smell it on the tree. 
Othello , v. 2, 13. 
(40) Rose-cheeked youth.— Timon of Athens , iv. 3, 86. 
(41) Thou young and Rose-lipp’d cherubim.— Othello , iv. 2, 63. 
(42) Roses, their sharp spines being gone, 
Not royall in their smells alone 
But in their hue.'— Two Noble Kinsmen , Introd. song. 
(43) Emilia. Of all flowres 
Methinks a Rose is best. 
Woman. Why, gentle madam ? 
Emilia. It is the very Embleme of a maide. 
For when the west wind courts her gently, 
How modestly she blows, and paints the Sun 
With her chaste blushes ! When the north winds neere her, 
Rude and impatient, then, like Chastity, 
Shee locks her beauties in her bud againe, 
And leaves him to base Briers.— Ibid. , ii. 2, 160. 
(44) With cherry lips and cheekes of Damaske Roses. 
Ibid. , iv. 2, 95. 
(45) See Nettles, No. 13. 
(46) Roses have thorns and silver fountains mud, 
And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.— Sonnet xxxv. 
(47) The Rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem 
For that sweet odour that 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.-— Ibid., liv. 
(48) Why should poor beauty indirectly seek 
Roses of shadow, since his Rose is true ?■— Ibid., Ixvii. 
