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Decorations Taken from Other Sources: Edward

Edward the Fourth heightened the brilliancy of his white rose by making it a rose-en-soleil that is, a sun shining behind the rose. The rose was placed by him in a sun, in memory of his victory at the battle of Mortimer's Cross (1471), when he was Earl of March. Happening to face the sun, in the glare that dazzled his eyes, he exclaimed, - "Dazzle mine eyes, or do I see three suns?"

Richard answered : - "Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun; Not separated with the racking clouds, But sever'd in a pale clear-shining sky.

See, see! they join, embrace, and seem to kiss, As if they vowed some league inviolable:

Now are they but one light, one lamp, one sun!

In this the heaven figures some event."