RUE

*Herb of Grace*

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]

LAVATCH/CLOWN

Indeed, sir, she was the sweet marjoram of the

salad, or rather the HERB OF GRACE.

LAFEU

They are not salad-herbs, you knave,

they are nose-herbs.

—All’s Well That Ends Well [Act IV, sc. 5]

GARDENER

Here did she fall a tear; here in this place

I’ll set a bank of RUE, sour HERB OF GRACE:

RUE, even for ruth, here shortly shall be seen,

In the remembrance of a weeping queen.

—Richard II [Act III, sc. 4]

ANTONY

GRACE grow where these drops fall.

—Antony and Cleopatra [Act IV, sc. 2]

OPHELIA

There’s RUE for you;

and here’s some for me: we may call it HERB-

GRACE O’ SUNDAYS:

O, you must wear your RUE with a difference.

—Hamlet [Act IV, sc. 5]