Note 165:1 — FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS. (continued 3)
Reading edition
As aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow; But crushed or trodden to the ground, Diffuse their balmy sweets around. Goldsmith: The Captivity, act i.
The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still. Rogers: Jacqueline, stanza 3.