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the Cogitata et Visa (Works, iii. 614). Acosta, in his Natural Hist. of 
the Indies, describes the mode of obtaining fire by rubbing two sticks 
together (Bk. iii.ch, 2). In the English translation of this book (p. 119, 
ed. 1604) there is a misprint of ‘stones’ for ‘sticks,’ ‘the manner to 
strike fire in rubbing two s/ones one against another,’ where the Spanish 
has ‘palos.’ [5] to'a wild goat for surgery: See the passage quoted on 
the previous page from Virgil. [6] the ibis: ‘The like device to this, 
namely of clystres, we learned first of a foule in the same Hgypt, which 
is called Ibis (or the blacke Storke).’ Holland’s Pliny, viii. 27 (ed. 1601). 
This and the previous illustration are both mentioned by Montaigne, 
Ess. ii. 12. [7] the pot-lid that flew open for artillery: Of the discovery 
of guns we read, in the English translation of Pancirolli Rerum Mira- 
bilium Libri Duo (Lond. 1785, p. 384), ‘ All Histories do agree in this, 
that a German was Author of this Invention, but whether his Name be 
known, or whether he was a Monk of Friburg, Constantine Ancklitzen, 
or Bertholdus Swartz (as some call him) a Monastick too, is not so very 
certain. Tis said he was a Chymist, who sometimes for Medicines kept 
Powder of Sulphur in a Mortar, which he covered with a Stone. But it 
happened one Day as he was striking Fire, that a Spark accidentally 
falling into it, brake out into a Flame, and heav’d up the Stone. The 
Man being instructed by this Contingency, and having made an Iron 
Pipe or Tube together with Powder, is said to have invented this 
Engine.’ The story is found in Polydore Vergil (De Inventoribus 
Rerum, ii. 11). [8] Comp. Agatho, quoted by Arist. Eth. Nic, vi. 4: 
Téxvn TUXHV eoTEpge Kal TUX TéEXvnv. [11] Virg. Georg. i. 133. [14] 
do put in ure: i.e. douse. [17] Cic. Pro Balbo, 20; Assiduus usus uni 
“rei deditus et ingenium et artem sepe vincit, [20] Virg. Georg. i. 145: 
vicit in the original. [22] Persius, Prol. 8: Quis expedivit Psittaco suum 
xatpe. [23] See Holland’s Pliny, x. 43. [24] pebbles: ‘pibbles’ in 
ed. 1605 ; as in Shakespeare, Coriolanus, v. 3. 56, the first folio has, 
‘Then let the Pibbles on the hungry beach 
Fillop the Starres.’ 
[28] ‘ Looke what seeds or graines they do lay up for provision, sure 
they will be*to gnaw it first, for feare they should sprout and take root 
again and so grow out of the earth.’ Holland’s, Pliny, xi. 30. ‘The 
supposed grains of corn are no doubt the nymphe. Huber repeatedly 
observed ants in the act of tearing the integument in which the young 
ant was enclosed, in order to facilitate its exit.’ Ellis’s note on De 
Augm., v. 2, p. 619. This again is mentioned by Montaigne, Ess. ii. 12. 
‘P. 152. [1] See p. 150, 1. 26. [5] Nothing is said of Plato in the 
translation. [14] Virg. Georg. iv. 1. [21] for who can assure: Lat. 
quis enim in se recipiet, [23] not other; ‘any other’ in some copies of 
ed, 1605. [24] 1Sam. xvi. [25] Issay: So in the edd, of 1605, 1629, 
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