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Cambridge, second son of Edward III. through 
Maud, his wife, whose family used it in memory 
of Fair Rosamund (Woodward, “ Brit, and For. Her.,” 
323, 324), whose epitaph ran: 
Hie jacet in tomba Rosamunda, 
Non Rosa Mundi, 
Non redolet, sed olet, quae redolere solet. 
To these York and Lancaster roses Shakespeare thus 
refers : 
In 1 Henry VI ., II. iv. 27, Richard Plantagenet 
speaks : 
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 briar pluck a white rose with me ; 
whereon the Earl of Somerset answers : 
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 in the memorable scene that ensues Warwick 
declares his gage : 
I pluck this white rose with Plantagenet, 
and Suffolk for Somerset. The full speeches of each 
will be found at the end of the present volume, 
hence I forbear to add them here, save only the 
awful concluding words of the mighty King-maker : 
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. 
Apart from its use as a badge, the flower was held 
in much repute among herbalists as a scent with 
preservative tendency ; one example from strange 
old Alexis of Piedmont must suffice : 
“ Take the buddes of redde roses, and brase them in 
