Shakespeare’s Revised Version (Third Quarto, 1609).

Rom. I do remember an apothecary

And hereabouts he dwells—whom late I noted

In tatter’d weeds, with overwhelming brows,

Culling of simples; meager were his looks,

Sharp misery had worn him to the bones;

And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,

An alligator stuff’d, and other skins,

Of ill-shap’d fishes; and about his shelves

A beggarly account of empty boxes,