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origin of this saying is to be found in a fragment of Theophrastus: 
Bonet yap % madela, kal TodTo mavTes Spodroyotat. uepodv Tas Yuyas; 
dpaipovoa 7d Onpi@des Kat dyvwpov (Stobzi Florilegium, ed. Gaisford, iv. 
App. p. 55, ed. 1822). [23] examined and tried ;: observe the Latinized 
construction of the participles. [29] Eccl. i. 9 (‘There is no new 
thing under the sun’), quoted from memory. ([30, 31] The Latin 
has, qui pone aulea caput inserens organa quibus moventur et filamenta 
cernit. 
P. 68. [3] for a passage: that is, a pass or ford. The Latin has 
propter pontem aliqguem. [4] Plutarch (Ages. 15. § 6) relates that Alex- 
ander called the battle between Antipater and Agis a battle of mice. . 
The news was brought to him soon after the battle of Arbela. [9] 
Compare Seneca, Nat. Queest. i. prol. § 10: Formicarum iste discursus est 
in angusto laborantium. [20] See Epictetus, Enchir. 33, and Simplicii in 
Epict. Comm. c. 33. The dramatic form of the story is apparently 
Bacon’s. own. [24] Virg. Georg. ii. 490. [33] rationem totius: appa- 
rently referring to Eccl. xii. 13. 
P. 69. [5] Plato, Alcib. Prim. ii. 133. [6] Mr. Spedding’ quotes 
another form of this. sentence as Bacon had entered it in the Promus, 
‘ Suavissima vita indies meliorem fieri.’ It appears to be derived from 
Xenophon, Memor. i. 6. § 8. The same sentiment occurs in Dante, 
Parad. xviii, 58, quoted by Mr. Ellis. Comp. also Ady. to the E, of 
Rutland (Works, ix. p. 7). 
P. 70. [6] Virg, Georg. iv. 561. [9] over the will: The Latin adds 
licet liberam et non astrictam, [23] Rev. ii. 24. [24] force: face in edi 
1605, corrected in Errata, [31] A saying of Hiero’s, recorded by Plu- 
tarch (Reg. et Imp. Apoph.), is perhaps what Bacon was thinking of, 
Xenophanes complained that his poverty did not allow him to keep two 
servants. ‘ How is that?’ said Hiero: ‘Homer, whom you worry with 
abuse, dead as he is, supports more than ten thousand.’ 
P. 71. [10] exceed. the pleasure of the sense: So in the Errata to ed. 
1605. The original editions have ‘exceed the senses,’ The Lat. is 
oblectamenta m dent, ‘The true reading is probably ‘ exceed: 
the pleasures of the senses.’ [15]. satiety: sacietie,ed. 1605. [16] ver- 
dure: In edd. 1605, 1629, 1633, it is verdour, which perhaps shows what 
the old pronunciation was, In Cotgrave’s French Dict. and Florio’s 
Ital. Dict. of 1611, the spelling of the word is as we have it. See note 
on p. 48, 1. 17. [17] deceits of pleasure: that is, deceptive, unreal 
pleasures. The Lat. has umbras tantum et fallacias voluptatum. [20]; 
ambitious princes: Bacon was perhaps thinking of the Emperor Charles 
V., who resigned the crown of Spain in favour of his son in 1556, and. 
retired to the monastery of San Yuste. See Ess. xix. p. 76. [22] ‘it, 
that is, ‘knowledge,’ is omitted as the subject of ‘appeareth.’ The: 
whole sentence stands thus in the Lat.: ut necesse sit hujus' delectationis: 
