“The scene goes like this. The gentlemen who take different sides in the quarrel between the House of York and Lancaster are just coming out of that very building,” Godmother began, pointing to the Hall, “and one of them says:
‘Within the Temple Hall we were too loud:
The garden here is more convenient.’”
“This very garden,” interrupted Betty. “Only I expect it was wilder and had lots of flowers in it then?”
“Evidently there were many rose bushes, for one noble, who is on the side of the Yorkists, says:
‘Let him that is a true born gentleman
And stands upon the honour of his birth
If he suppose that I have pleaded truth
From off this briar pluck a white rose with me.’
Then Somerset, on the side of the Lancastrians, takes up the challenge: