EGLANTINE, a name of the sweet-briar, Rosa rubiginosa, so frequently alluded to by our old poets. Warton justly observes—that Milton in the Allegro has applied the word improperly to the honeysuckle.
Then to come, in spite of sorrow,
And at my window bld good-morrow,
Through the sweet-briar or the vine,
Or the twisted eglantine.