It was the Greek Physician,pharmacologist and botanist Pendanius Diocorides who wrote "De materia Medica", the most influential herb book ever written;this was in Rome during the time of Nero.
He wrote that Rosemaryis reccomended for its "warming qualities
Below written in English 1652...
Shakespeare's Ophelia who was buried with Rosemary
“There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray, love, remember; and there is pansies, that's for thoughts.”~Shakespeare
Rosemary
Rosemary for remembrance, -
O gentle memories
Of hours whose fragrance is like flowers
In olden pleasaunces!
When all the birds go South again
And all the laughter's o'er,
Rosemary for remembrance
Of days that are no more!
Rosemary for remembrance
Of summer posies done, -
And scarlet for midsummer joy
And gold for noonday sun.
God grant us in autumnal days,
When brighter flowers have died,
Rosemary for remembrance
And dreams for eventide!
O gentle memories
Of hours whose fragrance is like flowers
In olden pleasaunces!
When all the birds go South again
And all the laughter's o'er,
Rosemary for remembrance
Of days that are no more!
Rosemary for remembrance
Of summer posies done, -
And scarlet for midsummer joy
And gold for noonday sun.
God grant us in autumnal days,
When brighter flowers have died,
Rosemary for remembrance
And dreams for eventide!
Cicely Fox Smith
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