Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems (1902)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York; London : Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 418
ing the guests with delight. We have seen that Wine Rosat was known inancient Rome, and there was a smooth and oily butpotent drink of Elizabethan days known by thepretty name of Rosa Solis, strong with aqua vitdeand pungent with Orange flower water and cinnamonextract: old Red Rose water in… … Queen of the Prairie Rose. Rosa Solis, Rose Plate, and Rosee 317 who, crazed with this liquor, leaped dare-devil from ahigh second-story balcony, the desperatest frolicI did ever see, wrote Pepys. I should have loved tosee a braggart gallant of Elizabeths day, swaggeringin bombasted breeches, great…
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