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 down her shoulders." (Dyer, p. 353.) And from Heywood we quote the couplet:

Flowers were lavishly used at weddings. Rosemary, for remembrance, was especially suitable.

Rosemary, however, was not the only flower strewed before the bride on her way to church or in the church itself. The following bit of verse is found in the fifteenth song of Drayton's unpoetic but interesting Polyolbion: