as condemned to be burned alive. When brought to
the stake, the flames burnt Hamuel to a cinder, but did no harm to
Zillah. There she stood, in a garden of roses, for the brands which had
been kindled became red roses, and those which had not caught fire
became white ones. These are the first roses that ever bloomed on earth
since the loss of paradise.

As the fyre began to brenne about hire, she made her preyeres to
oure Lord ... and anon was the fayer quenched and oute, and brondes
that weren brennynge becomen white roseres ... and theise werein
the first roseres that ever ony man saughe.--Sir John Maundeville,
_Voiage and Traivaile_.

_Rose._ According to Mussulman tradition, the rose is thus accounted
for: When Mahomet took his journey to heaven, the sweat which fell on
the earth from the prophet's forehead produced _White_ roses, and that
which fell from Al Borak' (the animal he rode) produced _yellow_ ones.

_Rose._

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 pass 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 Vaug