Note 300 — SCENE V.
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Sir Thomas Wyat, in his celebrated letter to John Poines, has a passage much in point—
"To ioyne the meane with ech extremitie, With nearest vertue ay to cloke the vice. And as to purpose likewise it shall fall To presse the vertue that it may not rise, As dronkennesse good-felowship to call."
—Collier.