infection
“from the dangerous year—Their verdure still endure, To drive,”
VENUS AND ADONIS, 508.
“The poet evidently alludes to a practice of his own age,
when it was customary, in time of the plague, to strew the rooms of every house with rue
and other strong-smelling herbs, to prevent infection”
(MALONE)
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A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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