298 NOTES. 
P. 123. [2] Lat. gue magis ingeniosa quidem res est et sagax, quam 
philosophica. [7] Hor. Od. ii. 10. 3. [16] in books: Among others the 
Magia Naturalis of Baptista Porta, published in 1589. [22] Bacon uses 
the same comparison in his treatise Of the Interpretation of Nature 
(Works, iii, 234). The story of King Arthur of Britain was compiled 
from the French legends by Sir Thomas Malory about the year 1470, 
and was first printed by Caxton in 1485. Sir John Bourchier, Lord 
Berners, the translator of Froissart, also translated from the French, at 
the request of the Earl of Huntingdon, the romance of Sir Hugh of 
Bourdeaux, a knight of the age of Charlemagne (Warton, Hist. of Eng, 
Poetry, iii. 342, ed. 1824). This was printed by William Copland 
about 1540. In Burton’s time these romances were the favourite reading 
of the country squires. ‘If they read a book at any time .. ’tis an 
English chronicle, S' Huon of Bordeaux, Amadis de Gaul, &c., a play- 
book, or some pamphlet of news.’ (Anat. of Mel. i. p. 205, ed. 1813). 
The romance of Hugh of Bourdeaux supplied the incidents of Wieland’s 
Oberon. For a summary of it see Dunlop’s History of Fiction, i. 394- 
419 (ed. 1816), Montaigne (i. 25, trans. Florio, p. 85, ed. 1603) says, 
‘of King Arthur, of Lancelot du-Lake, of Amadis, of Huon of Burdeaux, 
and such idle time-consuming, and wit-besotting trash of bookes wherein 
youth doth commonly ammuse it-selfe, I was not so much as acquainted 
with their names.’ [27] the fable of Ixion: Pindar, Pyth. ii, 21. 
P. 124. [19] medicines, motions: Lat. medicinas proprias, accommodata 
etiam exercitia, [21] Lat. quam quod hoe fieri possit per guttas pauculas, 
aut scrupulos alicujus pretiosi liquoris aut quintessentia. [32] This inven- 
tory was intended to occupy the tenth chapter of the treatise Of the 
Interpretation of Nature. 
P. 125. [9] deducing: ‘diducing’ in ed. 1605. [15] In the De Aug- 
mentis Bacon omits the example of the mariner’s compass and sub- 
stitutes the experiments made by Drebbel on the artificial congelation 
of water by means of ice and saltpetre. To this he again alludes in 
the fifth book of the De Augmentis, See Mr. Ellis’s note (Works, i. p. 
628, note 1). [24] Virg. Ecl.x. 8. [26] See Nov. Org. i. 35. Alex- 
ander (properly Roderigo) Borgia was Pope Alexander VI., and the 
expedition of the French was that under Charles VIII. in 1494. Bacon 
quotes the story again in his Redargutio Philosophiarum (Works, iii. 
558), and in his Hist. of Hen. VII. (Works, vi. 158). 
P. 126. [1] De Augm. iii. 4. [5] Non liquet was a Roman legal 
formula, by which the judge declared his inability to decide upon 
the guilt or innocence of the accused: like the Scotch not proven. [14, 
15] the entry of doubts are: An instance of a loose construction of 
frequent occurrence, in which the verb agrees in number with the 
substantive interposed between it and its subject. Comp. Shakespeare, 
Hamlet, i. 2. 36-38: 
