Under the Rose

That the English proverbial expression, *Under the Rose*, is derived from the confessional, is, I believe, generally admitted: but the authorship of the well-known Latin verses on this subject is still, as far as I am aware, a *rexata quæstio*, and gives a somewhat different and *tantaleau*[1] meaning to the adage:— "Est Rosa flas Veneris, quem, quo sua furta laterent, Harpoerati, Matris dona, dicavit Amor. Inde rosam mensis hospes suspendit amicis, Convivæ ut sub ca dicta tacenda sciant." Can any of your correspondents obligingly inform me to whom these not inelegant or unclassical lines are…