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Quotation from Henry VI, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
“From off this brier pluck a white rose with me”
Henry VI, Part 1, Act 2, Scene 4 (Project Gutenberg #1500 (First Folio-based modern-spelling text))
Richard invites the lords in the Temple Garden to take his side in an unnamed legal dispute; Somerset answers with the red rose, and the emblems of York and Lancaster are born.
Citation: "From off this brier pluck a white rose with me" — William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act 2, Scene 4 (Project Gutenberg #1500 (First Folio-based modern-spelling text)). (id henry-vi-part-1-q4)
