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The Role is the honour and beauty of floures, The Role in the care and loue of the Spring: ..The Role is the pleafure of th’ heavenly Powfrs.

The Boy of faire Venus, Cytéemiv Darling,

Doth wrap his head round with garlands of Role, When to the dances of the Graces he goes.

Hngeriw Bushcqiiiits l" peaking of the eltimation and honor of the Rofe,reporteth,Th35 the Ttggg can by no means endure to fee the leaues of Rofes fall to the ground, becaufe fame 0“ Cm “he dreamed,that the firlt or molt antient Rofe did fpring out of the blond ofremn .~ and othetS0 Mahumetans fay thatit fprang of the fweatofalalzumet; » I D, 3;

But there are many kindes ofRofes,diFFering either in the bignelfe of the floures,0_”hC P 3 3 d fell.'e,roughne {Te or fmoothnelTe,or in the multitude or fewnelfe of the flours, or elfe in colotrrvcry fmell 3 for diners of them are high and ta1l,others fhort and low,fome haue flue leaueslot “sh- many. '1‘/zeoplmzflm tells of a certain Rofe growing about Philippi,with an hundred l6fl“C5_=“}l1 We the Inhabitants brought forth‘ofPangaeum,and planted in Campania, as Pliny faith. hold to be the Holland Rofe, that diners call the Prouince Rol'e,biit not properly. a _ L

Moreouenfome be red,others white, and moi! of them or all fweetly ftnellin g, efpficlauy of the garden. ‘

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I Raff»: 41:54; i gt Tb: Drfcriptiom The white Role.

tent, one genera“ , ,, might ferue to i the whole flock 0Y_l‘ S

the Rofes,being_th1”g d- g

knowne : notwlt ll“ thinke it not amille to fay fomthing 9f the rally, in hope to fatisfie all. The Wl]ltC 6 very long Pcalkes of a wooddy fubflaDC‘3 r W med with diners fharpe prickles : the wherof are likewife full of prickles,w leaues confifting of Hue leaues for Fl” fet vpon a middle rib by couples,th'e0 ding at the point of the fame , and “'5' 6 6 thofe {mall leaues fomwhat fnipt abou‘ t 05 fomewhat rough,and of an ouerwome gm lour : from the bofome whereof fh0°‘ foot fialks, whereon grow very fair‘? Olga of a white colour, and very fweet frnell, ’ the middle a few yellow threds or chill?‘ ’ being paflz, there fucceedeth a long f the firfl, but red when it is ripe, and ” . downy choking matter,wherein is conta a as hard as fiones. The root is long,t0U‘:’a ’ wooddy fub fiance.

2 The red Role gtoweth very 10W

of the former: the {talks are ihottefafiln V (C 1 J

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of the branchegconfilling ol'man_y 16'

fee’: red colour :the fruit is lilcewi ’ I ripe: the root is wooddy. a is like the 3 Elle eentnign Qatnaske Role in llattire, prickely branches,and in o§b¢?_¥_ {€5.96 5 whit“

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T he red Role.

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3 Rafa Prarvititialzk, /irye Detmafcemzc. The Province or Damaske Role”

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white Rafe 5 the cfpeciall difference eonfifls the colour and fmell of the flours: for thefe are of 3 P31: red co1our,ofa more pleafant fmel,anc[ fitter for meat and m€diCi0¢¥ _ , -. . 4 The Raf}: pmzmza mmor or leller Prof Vince Rofe dilfeteth not from the former, but is: altogether lefler : the floures‘ and ruit are like :‘ the vfe’ in phyficke alfo agreeth with the precg- dent; .. , I . . . V W The Role without pricltles hath many young {boots comming from the r‘o'ot,diu‘iding‘ tliemfelues into diuers branches,tough,and of a’ wooddy fubllance as are all the tell of the R0-‘ fes,ofr'he height of two or three cubits,fmooth' and plain without any roughnelle or prickles at all: whereon grow leaues like thofe olthe Hol-

, land Rofepfa {hining deepgreen colour on the‘

yppet lidegvnderneath fomewh-at hoary and hai= Iy.The flours grow atthe tops ofthe branches; confilling ofaniinfinite number of 1eaues,g‘€“T ter than thofe of the Damaskc ROE: mom do-“T ble,and ofa colour between the red a[1d_.,.d“ma5l‘3‘ Roles ofa molt fweetfmell.‘T.he fruit 15 rounds‘, ted wlien it is ripe , and fiuffed with. the hke flocks and fcedg of thofe of the damaske Role.‘ The root is grear,wooddy»ar}d far fprcadine .‘ t ,5 The Holland or Province Role hath die; mm {boots proceeding from a wooddy root full; of {harps prickles, diuiding it lelfe into diucfi. bt‘3.UCl1cs,Wl1CIO£1 grow leaues cio_nfifiib5 °f5‘1°,

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