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c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1103 A Citole in hir right hand hadde she And on hir heed..A rose gerland.

c1480 (a1400) St. Peter 708 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 27 With lely and rose-cronis in hand.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) v. vii. l. 8 For the victour a bul, and al hys hed Of..roys garlandis red Buskyt full weil.

?1555 Ld. Morley tr. Petrarch Tryumphes sig. G.ii Hauynge on theyr fayre heades on hyght Rose garlandes and vyolets fresh and gay.

1643 A. Ross Mel Heliconium (new ed.) 106 A Rose-crown was more fit For thee, and Thorns for this of mine.

1654 Trag. Alphonsus v. 60 When thou hadst stoln her daintie rose Corance, And pluck'd the flow'r of her virginitie.

1704 T. Creech tr. Plutarch Symposiacs iii, in tr. Morals III. 254 Ammonius began to jeer me for chusing a Rose Chaplet before a Laurel, saying, that those made of Flowers were effeminate, and fitted toyish Girls and Women more than grave Philosophers and Men of Music.

1797 Poem on Authors Two Late Productions 7 One ruffian zealot..Rends from the brow of the immortal Fair Her white rose wreath.

1820 W. Scott Monastery I. v. 162 Pestilential heresy..as a canker-worm in the rose-garland of the Spouse.

1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 132 Clad in green raiment to the feet, Her feet upon the blossoms bare, A rose-wreath round her golden hair.

1904 E. Glasgow Deliverance v. ix. 529 From her he went on to his mother's portrait, painted in shimmering brocade under rose-garlands held by smiling Loves.

1960 B. Seward Symbolic Rose ii. 20 The pagan festal rose wreath, cruelly parodied in Christ's crown of thorns, became a flowering Christian halo signifying charity, holiness, and peace.

2001 Jrnl. Hist. Sexuality 10 170 She hired a blacksmith to force open their cell door, only to find them sitting together in a trance, each with a rose garland on her head.