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same words. [3] lives: Jynes in ed. 1605. [6] rare: grace in some 
copies of 1605; others read great. In the Errata it is corrected to rare, 
and this is the reading of edd. 1629 and 1633. [12] her: So in some 
copies of ed. 1605; others read the. [30] to the purpose: that is, as 
regards the purpose &c. 
P. 59. [12] Plutarch, Alex. 8.§ 1. [19] Achilles: Plut. Alex. 15. § 3. 
[22] Pliny, H. N. vii. 30; Plutarch, Alex. 26.§ 1. [25] Plutarch, Alex. 
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P. 60. [1-10] And herein... praises: Omitted in the Latin. [14] 
Plutarch, Alex. 14. § 2. [17] Seneca, De Benef. v. 4.§ 4. [23] Plutarch, 
De Adulatore et Amico, 25; Alex. 22. § 2. [27] The Latin adds, cum 
tam indigentia quam redundantia nature, per illa duo designata, mortis 
sint tanquam arrhabones. [31] Seneca, Ep. Mor. vi. 7. § 12. Plutarch, 
Alex. 28.§ 1. [32] Hom. Il. v. 340; ixa@p olds wép re féer paxdpecot 
Oeotat. 
P. 61. [2] Plutarch, Alex. 74. § 2. (6, 7] that was the matter: We 
should say, that was the point. Lat. hoc ipsum animos eis dedit. [15] 
Plutarch, Alex. 53. § 2. Quoted again by Bacon in his Letter to the 
King on a Digest of the Laws of England (Cabala, p. 76). [24, 25] 
Lat. Callisthenes negotium in se recepit, idque tam acerbe tamque aculeate 
prestitit &c. [29] translation: Bacon uses this word as the rendering of 
metaphor, borrowing it trom the Lat. trauslatio as employed by Cicero, 
30] Plutarch, Apoph. Reg. et Imp. Alex. 17. Mr. Ellis has pointed 
out that Bacon, following Erasmus, misunderstood the story. Holland 
translates it: ‘ When some there were who much praised unto him the 
plainenesse and homelie simplicitie of Antipater, saying that he lived an 
austere and hard life, without all superfluities and delicious pleasures 
whatsoever: Well (quoth he) Antipater weares in outward shew his 
apparell with a plaine white welt or guard, but he is within all purple 
(I warrant you) and as red as scarlet (’Avriwarpos Aeveordpudds ear, TA 
& éviov édAonéppupos).’ 
P. 62. [3-9] Plutarch, Alex. 31. § 5. Quoted again in Ess. xxix. 
p- 120. [13] Plutarch, Alex. 47. § 3. [19] according to the model of 
their own mind: Comp. Hor. Epist. i. 7. 98, Metiri se quemque suo 
modulo ac pede verum est. [21] Plutarch, Alex. 29. § 3. [25] Perdiccas, 
according to Plutarch, was the only one of Alexander’s friends who 
asked the question. Plutarch, Alex. 15. § 2. [30] Plutarch, Ces, 11. 
§ 1. Crassus became surety to Czsar’s creditors for 880 talents, before 
he was allowed to take the preetorship in Spain. [32] This story of the 
Duke of Guise had been heard by Bacon when he was in France in 1576, 
In his Apology concerning the Earl of Essex, he says, in reference to 
Essex’s offer of a piece of land, ‘My answer, I remember, was, that for 
my fortune it was no great matter; but that his lordship’s offer made 
me to call to mind what was wont to be said, when I was in France, of 
