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In confirmation of this tradition, the hea- 
then said that when night brought out the 
owl, the Campion, recollecting the past, 
bowed its head in fear. 
Another tradition says that the Campion 
represents the wine-skins of the god Silenus; 
hence its Latin name, Sé/ene influta. 
The White Rose has ever been considered 
as sacred to silence. “Sub rosa,” said the 
Roman, and the pledge was deemed sacred. 
This attribute of the White Rose was, we 
have read, gained by the fact that a rose was 
carved in the centre of the dining-room or 
tefectory of the ancients, and that as all 
things spoken in the freedom of social inter- 
course were esteemed sacred, so “under the 
rose” became a proverbial saying for secrecy. 
In the “ Bible Herbal,” an old work pub- 
lished at the close of the sixteenth century, 
while Shakespeare was still living, we find 
this “emblem” with the motto : 
““ He who doth secrets reveal, 
Beneath my roof shall never live,” 




