History & The Arts
How a centuries-old poem hints at Shakespeare’s herbal ‘muse’
...publication of poetry (“copy”) into the future. I also referred to a line in Sonnet 76: Invention in a noted weed [so] every word doth almost tell my name, Showing their birth, and where they did proceed Shakespeare may be saying here that his writings were “born” from the use of “a noted weed”, a term associated with tobacco, which can include cannabis. Apart...
