The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare - Part 84
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[242:2] "Names of Herbes," s.v. Oryza.

ROSES.

(1) _t.i.tania._

Some to kill cankers in the Musk-rose buds.

_Midsummer Night's Dream_, act ii, sc. 3 (3).

(2) _t.i.tania._

And stick Musk-Roses in thy sleek, smooth head.

_Ibid._, act iv, sc. 1 (3).

(3) _Julia._

The air hath starved the Roses in her cheeks.

_Two Gentlemen of Verona_, act iv, sc. 4 (159).

(4) _Song._

There will we make our beds of Roses And a thousand fragrant posies.

_Merry Wives of Windsor_, act iii, sc. 1 (19).

(5) _Autolycus._

Gloves as sweet as Damask Roses.

_Winter's Tale_, act iv, sc. 3 (222).

(6) _Olivia._

Caesario, by the Roses of the spring, By maidhood, honour, truth, and everything, I love thee so.

_Twelfth Night_, act iii, sc. 1 (161).

(7) _Diana._

When you have our Roses, You barely leave us thorns to p.r.i.c.k ourselves And mock us with our bareness.

_All's Well that Ends Well_, act iv, sc. 2 (18).

(8) _Lord._

Let one attend him with a silver basin Full of Rose-water and bestrew'd with flowers.

_Taming of the Shrew_, Induction, sc. 1 (55).

(9) _Petruchio._

I'll say she looks as clear As morning Roses newly wash'd with dew.

_Ibid._, act ii, sc. 1 (173).

(10) _Tyrrell._

Their lips were four red Roses on a stalk, Which in their summer beauty kiss'd each other.

_Richard III_, act iv, sc. 3 (12).

(11) _Friar._

The Roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade To paly ashes.

_Romeo and Juliet_, act iv, sc. 1 (99).

(12) _Romeo._

Remnants of packthread and old cakes of Roses Were thinly scatter'd, to make up a show.

_Ibid._, act v, sc. 1 (47).

(13) _Hamlet._

With two Provincial Roses on my razed shoes.

_Hamlet_, act iii, sc. 2 (287).