[526] Isham copy, "Heuens;" and eds. B, C "Heauens."—MS. "helevs."—Davies alludes to Odyssey iv., 219, &c.
[527] So MS.—Old eds. "substantiall."
[528] We are reminded of Bobadil's encomium of tobacco:—"I could say what I know of the virtue of it, for the expulsion of rheums, raw humours, crudities, obstructions, with a thousand of this kind; but I profess myself no quacksalver. Only this much: by Hercules I do hold it and will affirm it before any prince in Europe to be the most sovereign and precious weed that ever the earth tendered to the use of man."
[529] So MS.—Not in old eds.
[530] Dyce quotes from More's Lucubrationes (ed. 1563, p. 261), an epigram headed "Medicinæ ad tollendos fœtores anhelitus, provenientes a cibis quibusdam."
[531] So eds. A, B, C.—Isham copy "so smooth."—MS. "so faire."
IN CRASSUM. XXXVII.
Crassus his lies are no[532] pernicious lies,
But pleasant fictions, hurtful unto none