Plan. Now, Somerset, where is your argument?

60 Som. Here in my scabbard, meditating that

[♦] Shall dye your white rose in a bloody red.

[♦] Plan. Meantime your cheeks do counterfeit our roses;

For pale they look with fear, as witnessing

The truth on our side.

Som. No, Plantagenet,

[65] ’Tis not for fear but anger that thy cheeks

Blush for pure shame to counterfeit our roses,

And yet thy tongue will not confess thy error.