Note 89 — Epigrammes.
Reading edition
Mr. Dyce reads 'Helen's' and confirms from Milton's Comus (1675)—
Not that Nepenthes, which the wife of Thone In Egypt gave to Jove-born Helena, &c.
In first edition there is a misprint "Hekens": in the other editions, as above "Heauens": in MS. "helvs": Isham 'Heuens.' Helen is admissible, but 'Heavens' what Davies himself printed. See the poem on Tobacco among the hitherto unpublished poems, of which the Epigram seems only a first rough draft—and relative note.