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(67) Nothing this wide universe I call 
Save thou, my Rose ; in it thou art my all .—Sonnet cix. 
(68) Rosy lips and cheeks 
Within time’s bending sickle’s compass come.— Ibid ., cxvh 
(69) Sweet Rose, fair flower, untimely pluck’d, soon vaded, 
Pluck’d in the bud, and vaded in the spring ! 
The Passionate Pilgrim, 131. 
(7c) There will I make thee beds of Roses.— Ibid ., 361. 
In addition to these many passages, there are perhaps thirty 
more in which the Rose is 
mentioned with reference to the 
Red and White Roses of the 
houses of York and Lancaster. 
To quote these it would be 
necessary to extract an entire 
act, which is very graphic, but 
too long. I must, therefore, 
content myself with the begin¬ 
ning and the end of the chief 
scene, and refer the reader who 
desires to see it in extenso to 
“ 1 st Henry VI,” ii. 4. The 
scene is in the Temple Gar¬ 
dens, and Plantagenet and 
Somerset thus begin the fatal quarrel—- 
Plantagenet. Let him that is a true-born gentleman, 
And stands upon the honour of his birth, 
If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, 
From off this Brier pluck a White Rose with me. 
Somerset. 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. 
And Warwick’s wise conclusion on the whole matter is— 
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. 
