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them to the marrow in the back, and is the place where they say the - 
memory is seated.’ Vigo defines the brain as ‘a substance full of 
'marrowe diuided into three ventricles, of which there is one in the 
fore part which is greater then the other three. The second is in 
the middest. The third hath his residence in the hinder part. And 
therefore after Galens iudgement, it is the foundation of imagination, 
and of deuising, and of remembrance’ (Works, fol. 66, Lond. 1586). 
Compare Chaucer, Knight’ s Tale, 1378: 
4 Engendrud of humour malencolyk, 
Byforne in his sedle fantastyk.’ 
{7] Differently arranged in De Augm. ii. 13, where much new matter 
is introduced. [13] Hor. De Art. Poet. 9. [19] may be styled: that 
is, may have this title of ‘feigned history,’ whether written in prose or 
verse. 
P. 102. [16] After this paragraph there is added in the De Aug- 
mentis one on Dramatic Poetry. [32] The seven wise men were Solon, 
Thales, Pittacus, Bias, Chilon, Cleobulus, and Periander of Corinth, 
Instead of the last, Plato (Protag. i. 343) enumerates Myso. Their 
maxims have been collected in Orelli’s Opuscula Grecorum veterum 
sententiosa et moralia, As other instances of parabolical wisdom the 
Latin mentions tessere Pythagore, and enigmata sphingis. The former 
of these are associated with AZgyptian hieroglyphics by Plutarch (De 
Isid. et Osir. 10) in a passage which Bacon probably had in his 
mind. 
P. 103. [1 5] Both these fables are quoted by Bacon in his fifteenth 
Essay, ‘ Of Seditions and Troubles,’ with substantially the same com- 
ments. In the De Augm. is substituted a lengthened discussion of the 
fables of Pan, Perseus, and Dionysus. See also Wisdom ut the Ancients, 
c. 9. [21] Virg. Hn. iv. 178. [30] Thetis, not Pallas. See Hom. 
TL. i. 398, &c. 
P, 104. [2] Achilles: Hom. Il. xi. 832; Plutarch (De Musica, xl. 4). 
[4] Machiavel: The Prince, c. 18. Mr. Ellis, in his note on this 
passage, suggested that ‘As two of the animals are the same it is 
possible that Macchiavelli was thinking of what was said of Boniface 
VIII. by the predecessor whom he forced to abdicate,—that he came 
in like a fox, would reign like a lion, and die like a dog.’ [11] Chry- 
sippus: a Stoic philosopher, born 8.c. 280, Bacon here refers to 
what Cicero says of him, De Nat. Deor. i. 15, §§ 38-41. [13] the 
fictions: ‘the’ is omitted in some copies of ed. 1605. [16-20] Surely 
.. meaning: The construction of this sentence is imperfect, though the 
sense is clear. [16] Homer: The same remark is made by Rabelais (Gar- 
gantua, prol.) of the allegorical interpretations of Homer by Plutarch, 
Eustathius, Heraclides Ponticus and Cornutus. [17] ‘To the Greeks 
