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 Io 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. 
Hauer, iv. 5, 175. 
So Winter’s Tate, iv. 4, 74. 
Tury 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. Gerard’s Herbal,” s.0, 
