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VIRG, Dum alteri noceat, sui negligens says Seneca of Anger. The social virtues of humanity and benevolence exert their influence immediately by a direct tendency or instinct, which chiefly keeps in view the simple object, moving the affections, and comprehends not any scheme or system, nor the consequences resulting from the concurrence, imitation, or example of others.
"Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English and Latin, compos'd at several times. Printed by his true Copies. The Songs were set in Musick by Mr. Henry Lawes, Gentleman of the King's Chappel, and one of His Majestie's Private Musick. 'Baccare frontem Cingite, ne vati noceat mala lingua futuro. VIRGIL, Eclog. vii. Printed and publish'd according to Order.
Now in order to close up this dilatationem or opening of the system, a corona baccaris was worn, which, by its odoriferous and constipating qualities, produced this effect, as Dioscorides assures us. Virgil, in his Seventh Eclogue, alludes to the same, antidote: "Aut si ultra placitum laudant, baccare frontem Cingite, ne vati noceat mala lingua futuro."
We might perhaps infer that the deceased prelate was addicted to the wine-flask, and to have been a firm believer in and follower of one of the rules of the medical school of his own diocese: “Si nocturna tibi noceat potatio vini, Hoc ter mane libas iterum, et fuerit medicina.”
Milton was himself editor of his own volume, and prefixed to it, again out of Virgil's Eclogues, the characteristic motto, "Baccare frontem Cingite, ne vati noceat mala lingua futuro," indicating that his poetry was all to come.
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