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Wild Rosemary

ROSMARINO SILVESTRE

Woodcut of wild rosemary: a slender branching shrub with long narrow leaves, growing from a cut stump.
Herbario nuovo, Rome, 1585. John Carter Brown Library.

Calfacit, attenuat Syluester Rosmaris, atque
Concoquit, & reserat, incidit & inde resoluit;
Digerit, à blattis, tineis & tuta reseruat
Vestimenta.

Wild rosemary warms and thins, and concocts, and unlocks, and cuts, and thence resolves; it digests, and keeps clothes safe from the cockroach and the moth.

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