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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."
"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.
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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