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construction. Comp. p. 94, 1. 8, ‘and yet her government so mascu- 
line, where the copula is omitted. 
P. 93. [8] Cicero, De Off. i. 34. Comp. Tac. Hist. i. 1. [10] in 
the main continuance thereof: Lat. quatenus ad corpus ejus integrum. 
{12] George Buchanan, who wrote Rerum Scoticarum Historia. To 
this James I. evidently refers in the second book of his Basilicon Doron, 
where he reckons among unpardonable crimes ‘the false and vnreverent 
writing or speaking of malicious men against your parents and pre- 
decessors’ (Works, p. 158). [21] Bacon himself endeavoured to carry 
out the plan which he here suggested; but the only part of the work 
which was completed was the History of Henry VIL., published in 1622, | 
during his retirement. Besides this he left a fragment of the history of 
the reign of Henry VIII. In his letter to the Lord Chancellor touching 
the history of Britain, to which reference has been made before (p. 58, 
note), he speaks in nearly the same words of the defects of previous 
histories. [24] hath been: Observe the construction, and see p. 52, l. 9. 
[27] By Henry VII. Compare Bacon, Henry VII. p. 3: ‘There were 
fallen to his lot, and concurrent in his Person, three seuerall Titles to 
the Imperiall Crowne. The first, the Title of the Lady Elizabeth, 
with whom, by precedent Pact with the Partie that brought him in, 
he was to marry. The second, the ancient and long disputed Title ” 
(both by Plea, and Armes) of the House of Lancaster, to which he was 
Inheritour in his owne Person. The third, the Title of the Sword or 
Conquest, for that he came in by victorie of Battaile, and that the King 
in possession was slaine in the Field.’ [33] Henry VIII. 
P. 94. [5] Edward VI. and the attempt of the Duke of Northumber- 
land to place Lady Jane Grey on the throne. [6] Comp. Ess, xxix. 
p- 127: ‘A civill warre, indeed, is like the heat’ of a feaver.’ [7] Mary, 
married to Philip of Spain. [Ib.] Elizabeth. [8] and yet her govern- 
ment so masculine: The copula is omitted as in p. 92, 1. 33. [8-11] 
and yet...thence: Omitted in the Latin. [12] divided from all the 
world: Comp. Virg. Ecl. i. 67, Et penitus toto divisos orbe Britannos. 
{14] Virg. Ain. iii. 96. [18] Comp. p. 134, 1. 25, and Ess. xi. p. 43, 
‘And as in nature, things move violently to their place, and calmely © 
in their place,’ [23] it: redundant. [32] Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, at 
the end of the 34th book and the beginning of the 35th. Mr. Singer, 
in Notes and Queries, v. 232, was the first to point out the source of 
this reference. [33] the ancient fiction: The fable of the three fates, 
Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. The allusion is more distinctly given 
in the Latin translation. 
P. 95. [14] Virg. Zn. v. 751. [15] Plin. Ep. iii. 21: Nam postquam 
desiimus facere laudanda, laudari quoque ineptum putamus. [17] Prov. 
x. 7. [24] Cicero. Phil. ix. 5. § 10: Vita enim mortuorum in memoria 
vivorum est posita. The sentiment appears to have been borrowed from the 
