What ever dyes, was not mixt equally.
The good-morrow.
And see the note to p. [182], ll. 59-62.
Page 255, l. 127. Mithridate: a universal antidote or preservative against poison and infectious diseases, made by the compounding together of many ingredients. It was also known as 'Theriaca' and 'triacle': 'As it is truly and properly said, that there are more ingredients, more simples, more means of restoring in our dram of triacle or mithridate then in an ounce of any particular syrup, in which there may be 3 or 4, in the other perchance, so many hundred.' Sermons 26. 20. 286-7. Vipers were added to the other ingredients by Andromachus, physician to the Emperor Nero, whence the name 'theriaca' or 'triacle': 'Can an apothecary make a sovereign triacle of Vipers and other poysons, and cannot God admit offences and scandalls into his physick.' Sermons 50. 17. 143. See To Sr Henry Wotton, p. [180], l. 18 and note.
ll. 143-6. Compare p. [269], ll. 71-6.
l. 152. Heaven was content, &c. 'And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.' Matthew xi. 12.
l. 158. wast made but in a sinke. Compare: 'Formatus est homo ... de spurcissimo spermate.' Pope Innocent, De Contemptu Mundi; and
With Goddes owene finger wroght was he,
And nat begeten of mannes sperme unclene.
Chaucer, Monkes Tale.