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the plant that delights in the sea-spray; and so the old spelling 
was Rosmarin. Gower says of the Star Alpheta— 
“His herbe proper is Rosmarine 
Conf. A/nan., lib. sept. 
a spelling which Shenstone adopted— 
“ And here trim Rosmarin that whilom crowned 
The daintiest garden of the proudest peer.” 
It was also sometimes called Guardrobe, being “put into chests 
and presses among clothes, to preserve them from mothes and 
other vermine.” 
IRue. 
(1) For you there’s Rosemary and Rue. 
Winters Tale, iv. 4, 74. (See Rosemary, No. i.) 
(2) 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, iii. 4, 104. 
(3) Grace grow where these drops fall. 
Anto/iy and Cleopatra, iv. 2, 38. 
(4) 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, iv. 5, 18 r. 
(5) Cloven. 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. 
Alls Well that Ends Well, iv. 5, 17. 
Comparing (2) and (3) together, there is little doubt that the 
same herb is alluded to in both; and it is, perhaps, alluded to, 
though not exactly named, in the following: 
In man, as well as herbs, grace and rude will. 
Romeo andJuliet, ii. 3, 28. 
