![]() Looking deep into the magical lore currently available online, the modern herbalist discovered much about parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme that she did not previously know. ![]() Begging the question of why she’s in Scarborough Fair to begin with if she likes him even a little bit. In short, it seems like all she has to do if she wants him back is perform a few garden-variety, herculean tasks of the sort usually doled out by Zeus or unusually mean witches. Pondering this question, the modern herbalist noticed that in between all this dictatorial preaching was the refrain, “parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.” Aha! Perhaps there is the clue to his meaning.Īnd I must know she’s a true love of mine. Does he love her, or is he kissing her off? Have her make me a cambric shirt, indeed. So much for the idea that this is a straightforward love song. In this message, he instructs her to perform 5 impossible tasks as prerequisites to getting him back – everything from sewing a shirt with no seams to finding him some land between the sand and the sea. Nevertheless, we as herbalists are in a prime position to figure it out.įirst, the hero of the song gets a third party to take a lengthy message to his ex-lover who lives in another town. What seems on the surface to be a perfectly innocent folk song turns out to be riddle of devilish complexity. ![]() So begins the old Simon and Garfunkel song “Scarborough Fair,” borrowed from the Elizabethans, and a fine lot they were.
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