[97] "Rosemary," as Mr Steevens observes (note to "Hamlet," act iv. sc. 5), "was anciently supposed to strengthen the memory; and was not only carried at funerals, but worn at weddings." See the several instances there quoted. Again, in Dekker's "Wonderful Yeare," 1603: "Heere is a strange alteration; for the _rosemary_ that was washt in sweet water to set out the bridall, is now wet in teares to furnish her buriall." Again, in "The Old Law," act iv. sc. 1: "Besides, there will be charges saved, too; the same _rosemary_ that serves for the funeral will serve for the wedding." And in "The Fair Quarrell," act v. sc. 1-- "+Phis.+ Your Maister is to bee married to-day. +Trim.+ Else all this _rosemaries_ lost." It appears also to have been customary to drink wine at church, immediately after the marriage ceremony was performed. So in Dekker's "Satiro-mastix:" "And, Peter, when we are at church, bring _wine_ and cakes." At the marriage of the Elector Palatine with the Princess Elizabeth, daughter of James the First, it is said, "In conclusion, a joy pronounced by the king and queen, and seconded with congratulations of the lords there present, which crowned with draughts of _Ippocras_, out of a great golden bowle, as a health to the prosperitie of the marriage (began by the Prince Palatine, and answered by the Princess), after which were served up by six or seaven barons, so many bowles filled with wafers, so much of that worke was consummate."--Finett's "Philoxenis," 1656, fol. 11. [98] [Old copy, _on't_.] [99] The old copy reads _Sir Nicholas Nemo and his words_, but the sense seems to require that it should be _Sir Nicholas Nemo and his wards_, or watchmen or spies.--_Collier._ [100] [See "Old English Jest-Books," ii. 217-18.]