roose

Begins, “The roose as saith the philosopher Plinius hath doble verteus.”

And after dinner, in the drawing-room, Lady Cecilia did introduce me to two girls—the Roose girls—you know.

By a retrospective law, Roose was sentenced to be boiled to death, which was done accordingly.

And this is a perfectly serious question, although it certainly sounds as if it were only intended for a Roose.