The briar or dog-rose.
“Put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose,
And plant this thorn, this canker, Bollingbroke.”
Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV., i. 3.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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