With people's roses, red or white?

Go you abroad, for shame,' says Phillis,

'And from the Frenchmen pluck their lilies.'

VI.

"'Lilies!' says Thraso, 'lilies too!

The wench, I find, would be a wit,

Had she command of words eno',

And on the right one chanced to hit:

For pity, once, I'll set her clear:

The laurels, you would say, my dear.'