Note 224:E — Chapter VII
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A Faire Quarrel, by Middleton and Rowley, 1617. Besides rosemary, flowers of various kinds were frequently strewn before the bride as she passed to church; a custom alluded to in a well-known line of Shakspeare,
"Our Bridal Flowers serve for a buried corse:"
and more explicitly depicted in the following passage from one of his contemporaries:—
"Adriana. Come straw apace, Lord shall I never live To walke to Church on flowers? O 'tis fine, To see a Bride trip it to Church so lightly, As if her new Choppines would scorne to bruise A silly flower!"
Barry's Ram Alley, or Merry Tricks, act v. sc. 1. 4to. 1611.