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bonum simplex esse, non ex accidente, ut cum fraude. [27] Lucr. ii, 1-10, 
quoted again in Ess. i. p. 3. 
P. 72. [11] to this tend: tend is omitted in ed. 1605, but added in the 
Errata. [19] infinite: used loosely for ‘innumerable.’ The Lat. has 
innumera. It occurs once in the same sense in Shakespeare, Tim. of 
Ath. v. 1. 37: ‘a satire against the softness of prosperity, with a dis- 
covery of the infinite flatteries that follow youth and opulency.’ [Ib.] 
have been decayed: that is, have been brought to decay, fallen into 
decay. [21] statuaes: so in ed. 1605. ‘Statua’ was the old form of 
the word while still unnaturalized which Bacon adopted. See Glossary 
to his Essays. [23, 24] cannot but leese of the life and truth: that is, 
cannot but Jose some of the life and truth. ; 
P. 73. [4] Bacon here refers to Aristotle and his followers. [11] 
affection: The true reading is probably affections, as in 1. 14. [25] 
Pheedr. iii. 12. Quoted again in Ess. xiii, p. 48. It was a favourite 
fable with Bacon. Comp. Of the True Greatness of Britain (Works, 
vii. 57): ‘In which people (i.e. the Swiss) it well appeared what an 
authority iron hath over gold at the battle of Granson, at what time one 
of the principal jewels of Burgundy was sold for twelve pence by a poor 
Swiss, that knew no more a precious stone than did Asop’s cock.’ 
See Commines, B. v. c. 2, [26] Midas: Ovid, Metam. xi. 153, &c. 
[29] Paris: Eurip. Troad. 924, &c. [30] Tac. Ann. xiv. 9, Occidat 
dum imperet. [31] any: Omitted in ed, 1605, but added in the Errata. 
[32] Hom. Od. v. 218; Plutarch, Gryll. 1; Cic. de Orat. i. 44. Quoted 
again in Ess. viii. p. 27. 
- P. 74. [2] must: Omitted in ed. 1605, but added in the Errata. [4] 
Matt. xi. 19, quoted from the Vulgate. 
BOOK II. 
P. 75. [1-7] Comp. Ess. viii. p. 26: ‘Yet it were great reason, that 
those that have children, should have greatest care of future times; unto 
which, they know, they must transmit their dearest pledges.’ [9-12] 
and yet so...survive her: Omitted in the Lat., apparently for the reason 
mentioned in note on p. 21, ll. 16-21. [19] affection: Lat. studium 
meum erga literas. 
P. 76. [3] Hercules’ columns: The two rocks Calpe (Gibraltar) and 
Abyla (Ximiera, or Febel el Mina) on either side of the Straits of Gibraltar 
were so called by the ancients, as being supposed to mark the end of 
the western wanderings of Hercules, and so the limits of early geogra- 
phical knowledge in that direction (comp. Pindar, Nem. iii. 35; Herod. 
iv. 42, 181, 185). Pliny says of the Straits of Gibraltar (Hist. Nat. iii. 
proem. trans. Holland, ed. 1601): ‘Of both sides of this gullet, neere 
unto it, are two mountaines set as frontiers and rampiers to keepe all in: 
namely, Abila for Africke, Calpe for Europe, the utmost end of Hercules’ 
