...hath F. 45. [to his] Q.,. to to this f. 61. secure: carefree. 62. hebenon: yew, considered poisonous. That swift as quicksilver it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body, And with a sudden vigour it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood....

...from Padua (and Cambridge) in 1602. The playwright seems to anticipate this medical advance in: ... blood of man That swift as quicksilver it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body (I, v, 65-7) Whether de Vere took advantage of any of these people, books or places is not known. However,...

...in the porches of my ears did pour The leperous distilment, whose effect Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That swift as quicksilver it courses...The natural gates and alleys of the body, And with a sudden vigour it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood;...

...in the porches of mine ears did pour The leprous distillment, whose effect Holds such an enmity with blood of man That swift as quicksilver it courses...The natural gates and alleys of the body, And with a sudden vigor it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood....

...in the porches of my ears did pour The leperous distilment; whose effect Holds such an enmity with blood of man That swift as quicksilver it courses...The natural gates and alleys of the body, And with a sudden vigour it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood....