Part 122 (1/2)
The gentle name that shows Her love, her loveliness, and bloom (Her only epitaph a rose) Is growing on her tomb!
John James Piatt, _Poems of House and Home_ (1879).
=Rose of Aragon= (_The_), a drama by S. Knowles (1842). Olivia, daughter of Ruphi'no (a peasant), was married to Prince Alonzo of Aragon. The king would not recognize the match, but sent his son to the army, and made the cortez pa.s.s an act of divorce. A revolt having been organized, the king was dethroned, and Almagro was made regent. Almagro tried to marry Olivia, and to murder her father and brother, but the prince returning with the army made himself master of the city, Almagro died of poison, the marriage of the prince and peasant was recognized, the revolt was broken up, and order was restored.
=Rose of Har'pocrate= (3 _syl._). Cupid gave Harpocrate a rose, to bribe him not to divulge the amours of his mother, Venus.
Red as a rose of Harpocrate.
E. B. Browning, _Isobel's Child_, iii.
=Rose of Paradise.= The roses which grew in paradise had no thorns.
”Thorns and thistles” were unknown on earth till after the Fall (_Gen._ iii. 18). Both St. Ambrose and St. Basil note that the roses in Eden had no thorns, and Milton says, in Eden bloomed ”Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.”--_Paradise Lost_, iv. 256 (1665).
=Rose of Raby=, the mother of Richard III. This was Cicely, daughter of Ralph de Nevill of Raby, earl of Westmoreland.
=Rose Vaughan.= Lover of ”Yone” Willoughby, in _The Amber G.o.ds_. He has super-refined and poetical tastes; delights and revels in beauty, and until he met Yone had admired her gentle sister. The siren, Yone, sets herself to win him and succeeds. Marriage disenchants him and the knowledge of this maddens her into something akin to hatred. Yet she dies begging him to kiss her. ”I am your Yone! I forgot a little while,--but I love you, Rose, Rose!”--Harriet Prescott Spofford, _The Amber G.o.ds_ (1863).
=Rose of York=, the heir and head of the York faction.
When Warwick perished, Edmund de la Pole became the Rose of York, and if this foolish prince should be removed by death ... his young and clever brother [_Richard_] would be raised to the rank of Rose of York.--W. H. Dixon, _Two Queens_.
=Roses= (_War of the_). The origin of this expression is thus given by Shakepeare:[TN-136]
_Plant._ Let him that is a true-born gentleman ...
If he supposes that I have pleaded truth, From off this briar pluck a white rose with me.
_Somerset._ 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.
Whereupon Warwick plucked a white rose and joined the Yorkists, while Suffolk plucked a red one and joined the Lancastrians.--Shakespeare, 1 _Henry VI._ act ii. sc. 4 (1589).
=Rosemond=, daughter of Cunimond, king of the Gepidae. She was compelled to marry Alboin, king of the Lombards, who put her father to death A.D.
567. Alboin compelled her to drink from the skull of her own father, and Rosemond induced Peride'us (the secretary of Helmichild, her lover), to murder the wretch (573). She then married Helmichild, fled Ravenna, and sought to poison her second husband, that she might marry Longin, the exarch; but Helmichild, apprised of her intention, forced her to drink the mixture she had prepared for him. This lady is the heroine of Alfieri's tragedy called _Rosemonde_ (1749-1803). (See ROSAMOND.)
=Ro'sencrantz=, a courtier in the court of Denmark, willing to sell or betray his friend and schoolfellow, Prince Hamlet, to please a king.--Shakespeare, _Hamlet_ (1596).
=Rosetta=, the wicked sister of Brunetta and Blon'dina, the mothers of Cherry and Fairstar. She abetted the queen-mother in her wicked designs against the offspring of her two sisters, but, being found out, was imprisoned for life.--Comtesse D'Aunoy, _Fairy Tales_ (”Princess Fairstar,” 1682).