ROSE M A R Y. 
(Remembrance.) 
“There’s rosemary for you: that’s for i-emembrance.” 
Shakspeare. 
UR forefathers invariably adopted Rosemary as the 
symbol of remembrance; it was believed to 
possess the power of improving the memory, 
and was frequently employed as a means of invigorating 
the mental faculties. Perdita, in the “Winter’s Tale,” 
says: 
“For you there’s rosemaiy and rue; these keep 
Seeming and savour all the winter long: 
Grace and remembrance be with you both!” 
And in “ Hamlet,” Ophelia says : 
“There’s rosemary for you: that’s for remembrance. 
Pray you, love, remember.” 
Michael Drayton, in his “ Pastorals,” also alludes to 
this emblem in similar terms : 
“ He from his lass him lavender hath sent, 
Showing her love, and doth requital crave; 
Him rosemary his sweetheart, whose intent 
Is that he her should in remembrance have.” 
Respecting its employment at funerals, Mr. Martyn 
observes that in some parts of England, in his time, it 
was still customary to distribute it among the company, 
