As for rosemarie, I lett it run alle over my garden walls,
not onlie because my bees love it,
but because 'tis the herb sacred to remembrance and therefore to friendship,
whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language that maketh ye chosen emblem at our funeral wakes and in our buriall grounds.

Actually written in 1852 by Anne Manning in her fictional novel The Household of St Thomas More, as if a diary entry was made by his daughter Margaret; and so, although written as said by the character Thomas More in the novel by Anne Manning, it was not actually said by Thomas More. This quote on Rosemary is often quoted in gardening books – the name of the herb in the quote is usually updated to the modern spelling of Rosemary (also known as Rosmary, Rosmarie, Rosemarie, Rosmarinus, Rosmarine, Romero), and a number of other words may also be modernised. The misattribution was first noted in Garden Guild at lochac.sca.org/herb/, where the alternate spellings of Rosemary are also sourced.