Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, ROSEMARY: dry up your tears and stick your rosemary on this fair corse. Rosemary was used in funeral & marriage rites as well as in medicine and food.
Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, ARABIAN GUM: drops tears as fast as the Arabian trees their medicinable gum. Gum Arabick is still used as a medicine & food additive and comes from a type of Acacia.
Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, RUE: here in this place I’ll set a bank or rue, sour herb of grace. Rue was an important herbal medicine as well as a pun on ‘regret’.
Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, COLOQUINTIDA: the food that to him now is as luscious as locusts shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida. Coloquintida is a bitter gourd used medicinally.
Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, MANDRAKE: could curses kill, as doth the mandrake’s groan. The Mandrake or Mandragora was a powerful medicine and poison of the ancient and early modern world and attracted many fabulous legends.
