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The rose. 3. F.

The Garden's beautie, the flagrant smellinge. Rose.
Doth daigne amongst the lowlie weedes to growe,
And doth by humblenes, no glorie loose,
but smells with sweeter sente, by growing lowe:
So: you faire (Rose of honor) I, haue harde,
Doth with good will, the least desert regarde.