ROSEMARY

OPHELIA

There’s ROSEMARY, that’s for

remembrance; pray, love, remember.

—Hamlet [Act IV, sc. 5]

PERDITA

For you there’s ROSEMARY and rue;

these keep

Seeming and savour all the winter long;

Grace and remembrance be to you both.

—Winter’s Tale [Act IV, sc. 4]

BAWD

Marry, come up, my dish of chastity with

ROSEMARY and bays.

—Pericles [Act IV, sc. 6]

EDGAR

Bedlam beggars, who,

with roaring voices

Strike in their numb’d

and mortified bare arms

Pins, wooden pricks,

and sprigs of ROSEMARY.

—King Lear [Act II, sc. 3]

NURSE

Doth not ROSEMARY and Romeo

begin both with a letter?

ROMEO

Ay, nurse; what of that? both with an R.

NURSE

Ah, mocker! that’s the dog’s name;

R is for the—. No; I know it begins with some

other letter—and she hath the prettiest

sententious of it, of you and ROSEMARY,

that it would do you good to hear it.

—Romeo and Juliet [Act II, sc. 4]

FRIAR LAURENCE

Dry up your tears,

and stick your ROSEMARY

On this fair corse.

—Romeo and Juliet [Act IV, sc. 5]