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lawyer, are the characters introduced. Suffolk 
Says: 
Within the Temple Hall we were too loud ; 
The garden here is more convenient. 
Plantag. Since 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 off this briar pluck a White Rose with me. 
Somers. 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. 
This example is followed by their respective 
friends, and, after a threatening altercation, 
Warwick, addressing Plantagenet, says: 
In signal of my love 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, 
hall send, between the Red Rose and the White, 
A thousand souls to death and deadly night. 
What torrents of blood were shed in the civil 
wars, called the Wars of the Roses, which suc- 
ceeded, history has duly recorded. The subse- 
quent blending of. the interests of the two 
































