Pages 293, 358. Fetch me Ben Jonson’s scull.
In 1641 this was printed separately and anonymously as “A Preparative to Studie; or, the Vertue of Sack,” 4to. Ben Jonson had died in August, 1637. Line 9 reads: dull Hynde; 21, Genius-making; 28, Welcome, by; after the word “scapes” these additional lines:—
I would not leave thee, Sack, to be with Jove,
His Nectar is but faign’d, but I doe prove
Thy more essentiall worth; I am (methinks), &c.
Line 46, instead of “long since,” reads “of late” (referring to whom?); 38, tempt a Saint; 44, farther bliss; 53, against thy foes (N.B.); That would; and, additional, after “horse,” in line 56, this historical allusion to David Lesley, of the Scotch rebellion:—
I’me in the North already, Lasley’s dead,
He that would rise, carry the King his head,
And tell him (if he aske, who kill’d the Scot)
I knock’t his Braines out with a pottle pot.