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Apothecary: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

I do remember an apothecary, - And hereabouts he dwells, whom late I noted In tatter'd weeds, with overwhelming brows, Culling of simples; meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones: And in his And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuff'd, and other skins Of ill-shap'd fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes, Green earthen pots, bladders and musty seeds, Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses, Were thinly scatter'd to make up a show. Noting this penury, to myself I said,- An' if a man did need a poison now, Whose sale is present death in Mantua. Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him.— R. J. v. 1