RATS.—PLAN OF THE LAUREATE SOUTHEY FOR LESSENING THEIR NUMBER.—THE
DOCTOR'S HUMANITY IN REFUSING TO SELL POISON TO KILL VERMIN, AFTER THE
EXAMPLE OF PETER HOPKINS HIS MASTER.—POLITICAL RATS NOT ALLUDED
TO.—RECIPE FOR KILLING RATS.
I know that nothing can be so innocently writ, or carried, but may be
made obnoxious to construction; marry, whilst I bear mine innocence
about me, I fear it not.
BEN JONSON.