262 SHAKESPEARE'S [ROSEMARY. 



a stranger in the dark gets him by some sleight to a tavern, 

 where calling for two pints of sundry wines, the drawer setting 

 the wines down with two cups, as the custom is, the Jumper 

 tastes of one pint (no matter which) and finds fault with the 

 wine, saying 'tis too hard, but Rose-water and sugar would send 

 it down merrily ; and for that purpose takes up one of the cups, 

 telling the stranger he is well acquainted with the boy at the 

 bar, and can have twopennyworth of Rose-water for a penny 

 of him, and so steps from his seat, the stranger suspecting no 

 harm, because the fawn-guest leaves his cloak at the end of 

 the table behind him. But this Jump [swindle] coming to be 

 measured, it is found that he that went to take his rising at 

 the bar hath stolen ground and out-leaped the other more feet 

 than he can recover in haste, for the cup is leaped away with 

 him, for which the woodcock that is taken in the springe must 

 pay fifty shillings or three pound, and hath nothing but an old 

 threadbare cloak not worth 10 groats, to make amends for his 

 losses" (Dekker's "Bellman of London"). 



Rose-water was also put in mince-pies (" Good Huswife's 

 Treasury/' p. 4).] 



TAKE the seed of a Rose, and the seed of mustard, and 

 the foot of a weasel, and hang these on a tree, and from 

 thenceforth it will bear no fruit. And if the aforesaid be 

 put upon a net, the fish will collect there. And if the 

 said dust be put in a lamp, and then it be lighted, all 

 men will seem to be as black as the devil. And if the 

 said powder be mixed with olive -oil and quick sulphur, 

 and a house be smeared with this while the sun is shining, 

 it will appear to be all on fire. 



Albertus Magnus, "Of Virtues of Herbs," 15. 



Rosemary. 



There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. 



HAMLET, iv. 5, 175. 



So WINTER'S TALE, iv. 4, 74. 



THEY make hedges of it in the gardens of England, 

 being a great ornament unto the same. Rosemary is spice 

 in the German kitchens. The flowers, made up into plates 

 with sugar after the manner of sugar-roset and eaten, com- 

 fort the heart and make it merry, quicken the spirits and 

 make them more lively. Gerarfs H erba1," s.v. 



