[77] The verses would run better thus:—
"A feeling one; Tigellinus, bee't thy charge,
And let me see thee witty in't.
Tigell. Come, sirrah;
Weele see." &c.
[78] Quy. was oreheard to say.
[79] 4tos. your.
[80] Quy. even skies.
[81] Quy. I'the firmament.
[82] 4tos. loath by.
[83] Martial, in a clever but coarse epigram (lib. xi. 56), ridicules the Stoic's contempt of death:—
"Hanc tibi virtutem fracta facit urceus ansa,
Et tristis nullo qui tepet igne focus,
Et teges et cimex et nudi sponda grabati,
Et brevis atque eadem nocte dieque toga.
O quam magnus homo es, qui faece rubentis aceti
Et stipula et nigro pane carere potes.
* * * * *
Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam:
Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest."