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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS, 
folk, and Warwick, Richard Plantagenet, nephew 
and heir of Edmund Mortimer, with Vernon, and 
another lawyer, are the characters introduced. Suf¬ 
folk says: 
Within the Temple Hall we were too loud; 
The garden here is more cons^enient. 
Plantag. Si nee you are tongue-tied, and so loth to speak, 
In dumb significance proclaim your thoughts; 
Let him that is a true-born gentleman. 
And stands upon the honour of his birth. 
If he supposes I have pleaded truth. 
From offthis briar pluck a White Rose with me. 
Somers. Let him that is no coward, nor no flatterer. 
But dare main tain the party of the truth. 
Pluck a Red Rose from oiT this thorn with me. 
This example is followed by their respective 
friends, and after a threatening altercation, War¬ 
wick, addressing Plantagenet, says: 
In signal of mylove to thee. 
Will I upon thy party wear this Rose: 
And here I prophecy, 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. 
