Note 15a — RICHARD COBDEN. ON THE EFFECTS OF PROTECTION ON THE AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS OF THE COUNTRY; HOUSE OF COMMONS, MARCH 13, 1845.
Reading edition
Note 15a, p. 143.—The passage referred to, in what can hardly have been other than mere playfulness, is the following:
Urit enim lini campum seges, urit avenæ; Urunt Lethæo perfusa papavera somno.
For a crop of flax burns the land, also of oats; also poppies impregnated with Lethæan sleep.—Georgics, Lib. i., 77.