[281] Ben Jonson has borrowed this thought. See "Every Man in his Humour," act i. sc. 1—
"Myself was once a studient, and indeed
Fed with the selfsame humour he is now:
Dreaming on nought but idle poetry,
That fruitless and unprofitable art,
Good unto none, but least unto the professors."
[282] It is, 1633.
[283] [Old copies, plausible.]
[284] Said, 1618, '23, '33.
[285] Of the Rhodes, 1618.
[286] This is, 1816, '23, '33.
[287] Hang'd, ditto.
[288] That, 1618.
[289] To, omit, ditto.