The rival-flowers around display'd,

Thraso, to grace his war-like crest

Of orange-knots a huge cockade,

That reds and whites, and nothing else,

Should set the beaux against the belles!

II.

"Yet so it was; for yesterday

Thraso met Phillis with her posies,

And thus began th' ungentle fray,

'Miss, I must execute those roses.'