Note 556 — ACT I. SCENE I.

sprig of rosemary at his burial, than of a gilded bride-branch at mine own wedding] Rosemary, as being an emblem of remembrance, was used both at funerals and weddings. Compare The Pleasant History of John Winchcomb, in his younger yeares called Jacke of Newberie: “Then was there a faire bride cup of silver and gilt carried before her [the bride], wherein was a goodly braunch of rosemarie gilded very faire, hung about with silken ribonds of all colours: next was there a noyse of musitians that played all the way before her: after her came all the chiefest maydens of the countrie, some bearing great bride cakes, and some garlands of wheate finely gilded, and so she past unto the church.”—Sig. D 3, ed. 1633.