Roses red and violets blue,
And all the sweetest flowers, that in the forest grew.

These lines evoke a conventional catalogue of flowers—roses and violets foremost—used in Renaissance poetry to signal beauty, freshness, and the sensory richness of an idealized natural world. The pairing of “roses red” and “violets blue” works as a compact color-symbolic shorthand: red suggests warmth, vitality, and desire, while blue suggests delicacy and modesty. By adding “all the sweetest flowers…in the forest grew,” the speaker widens the image from familiar garden blooms to a more abundant, pastoral “wild” plenitude, intensifying the sense of natural bounty and sweetness. The effect is less a specific argument than an atmosphere-setting flourish, typical of lyric description and courtly celebration.