Moss Rose

No more be grieved at that which thou hast did:

Roses have thorns and silver fountains mud;

Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,

And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.

Sonnet 35

Rosewater was an ingredient in countless cosmetic recipes, while Christmas roses were prescribed to treat madness and melancholy. Roses also had symbolic value. At the end of the War of the Roses, the white rose of the York family and the red rose of Lancaster were combined to form the striped Tudor rose.