Chapter Rosalind to Rose of R by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Rosalia, St. Angelus, St. Rose of Lima, St. Ascylus, St. Victoria, etc., wear crowns of roses.

“Rose elle a vecu ce que vivent les roses
L'espace d'un matin.”
Malherbe: A Mme. du Perrier, sur la Morto de sa Fille.

Like other roses, thy sweet rose survived
While shone the morning sun, then drooped and died. B. C. B.

Rose for Rose-noble. A gold coin worth 6s. 8d. struck in 1344, under Edward III.; so called because it had a rose, the badge of the Lancastrians and Yorkists.

“De la pistole,
De la guinée, et de l'obole,
Du louis d'or, du ducaton,
De la rose, et du patagon.”
Jacques Moreau, in Virgils Travesti.