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scenes so especially patronized by those tutelar divinities, and 
many an oft-used but still current simile is drawn from the 
blushing hue, the smirassing loveliness, and the cruel thorns of 
the fair emblem-flower. When that reckless contemner of 
female charms, Memnon, the " Mad Lover,” of Beaumont and 
Fletcher, sees the beautiful Calls, and, after gazing in mute 
astonishment and adoration at such a vision of light, exclaims, 
“ Good Lady, kiss me !”—the flattered and amused Princess 
replies with poetic as well as witty elegance, 
“ Kiss you at first, my Lord ? ’Tis no fair fashion 
Our lips are like rose-buds, blown with men’s breaths 
They lose both sap and savour;—here’s my hand, Sir.’’ 
The tenn “ under the rose,” applied to any secret transaction, 
is perhaps not generally known to be of classic origin. Cupid, 
once on a time, wishing to gain assistance from Harpocrates, 
the god of silence, gave him the rose, by way of bribe; and 
from this circumstance, the custom formerly prevalent among 
some nations, of suspending a rose from the ceilings of rooms 
in which secret meetings were held, is evidently derived; and 
hence the familiar expression, “ under the rose,” which is very 
insignificant unless the origin of it be known. 
The Persian and Arabian Bards abundantly celebrate the 
Rose in their elegant and figurative poems; and the Bulbul, or 
Nightingale, being the supposed lover of this beautiful flower, 
the description of their mutual faith, unrivalled perfections, and 
loirg-cnduring love, occrtpies rro small space hr the works of 
Haliz aird his disciples. The celebrated hundred-leaved Rose 
