Rise (gen. dial. use in Sc. Irel. Eng.), a branch, twig, O.E. hrīs, a twig. ‘Cherries in the ryse’ is an old London Street Cry, as we know from Lydgate’s poem entitled London Lyckpeny:
Then vnto London I dyd me hye,
Of all the land it beareth the pryse:
Hot pescodes, one began to crye,
Strabery rype, and cherryes in the ryse.
Stanza ix.
Another instance of the use of the word may be taken from the old carol The Flower of Jesse (c. 1426):
Of lily, of rose of ryse,
Of primrose, and of fleur-de-lys,
Of all the flowers at my device,