The water of my land, find her disease.
Shakespeare, Macbeth, V. iii. 50.
The 'casting' preceded and led to the finding, naming the disease, calling it this or that.
ll. 9 f. I had not taught thee then, the Alphabet
Of flowers, &c.
'Posy, in both its senses, is a contraction of poesy, the flowers of a nosegay expressing by their arrangement a sentiment like that engraved on a ring.' Weekly, Romance of Words, London, 1912, p. 134. She had not yet learned to sort flowers so as to make a posy.
l. 13. Remember since, &c. For the idiom compare:
Beseech you, sir,
Remember since you owed no more to time
Than I do now. Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, V. i. 219.