. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . call Potted Roses, and it is thus pre-pared : I first pound some of the most fragrant Roses in amortar; then I take the brains of birds and pigs well boiled,and stripped of every particle of meat. I then add theyolks of some eggs, some oil, a little cordial, some pepperand some wine: after having beaten and mixed it welltogether I throw it in a new pot and place it over a slowbut steady fire. The chronicler adds that when the pot was un-covered the most delicious f
. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . call Potted Roses, and it is thus pre-pared : I first pound some of the most fragrant Roses in amortar; then I take the brains of birds and pigs well boiled,and stripped of every particle of meat. I then add theyolks of some eggs, some oil, a little cordial, some pepperand some wine: after having beaten and mixed it welltogether I throw it in a new pot and place it over a slowbut steady fire. The chronicler adds that when the pot was un-covered the most delicious fragrance issued forth,overcoming 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 plentiful quan-tity gave it its name. ** We abandon all beer that is staleRosa solis and damnable hum. It was beloved of roysterers, scourers, and Mo-hocks, such rakehelly fellows as Captain Ferrers,. 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 green shoe-roses, gauzesash and shoulder knot, and hat with pearl band andfeathers, — such a fearful guy as is our poor noble SirWalter Raleigh in his portrait, — bawling in througha red-lattice for a black-jack, and drinking off in asingle vast quaff a draught of damnable hum or right rosa solis, as ever washed molligrubs out ofa moody brain, which was its special function —the cinnamon being deemed in great degree chasingoff the megrims. CHAPTER XV THE EMBLEM OF THE ROSE IN ENGLISH HISTORY Round every flower there gleams a by antique song
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