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the common people do, to thinke as wise men do.’ Ascham’s Toxophilus, 
ed. Arber, p. 18. [9] The Tartars, says Dr Giles Fletcher, in his Russe 
Commonwealth, c. 19. p. 67 (ed. 1591), ‘are very expert horsemen, 
& vse to shoot as readily backward, as forward.’ And Maundevile 
(Voyage, &c., p. 304, ed. 1727): * And 3ee schulle undirstonde, that it is 
gret drede for to pursue the Tartarines, 3if thei fleen in Bataylle. For in 
fleynge, thei schooten behynden hem, and sleen bothe men and Hors.’ 
Comp. Speech on the Subsidy Bill (Life and Letters, ii. 89) : ‘Sure I am 
it was like a Tartar’s or Parthian’s bow, which shooteth backward.’ 
[30] so slightly touched: The Lat. has siquidem Aristoteles rem notavit, 
modum rei nullibi persecutus est, 
P. 164. [2] syllogism: ‘sophisme’ in ed. 1605, corrected in Errata. 
{3] Arist. Prior. Anal. ii. 5; Post. Anal. ii. 13. [4-7] The construction 
here is loose. We ought correctly to read, ‘ every of these hath certain 
subjects ...in which respectively it hath chiefest use ; and certain others, 
from which it ought’ &c. But Bacon regarded ‘every of these’ as 
equivalent to ‘all these” and finished the sentence accordingly. A 
similiar construction is found in Shakespeare, Mid. N.’s Dr. ii, 1. g0-92: 
‘Contagious fogs, which falling in the land 
’ Have every pelting river made so proud, 
That they have overborne their continents.’ 
[16] De Augm. v. 5. [18, 20] for: i.e. as for. [28] a matter of great 
use and essence: Lat. magni prorsus rem esse usus et firmitudinis. [31] 
and contracteth judgement to a strength: Lat. et aciem judicii in unum 
contrabat. 
P. 165. [6] An art there is extant of it: Cornelius Agrippa, in his 
Vanitie of the Sciences, has a chapter ‘Of the Arte of Memorie:’ 
‘Among these Artes, the Arte of Memorie is also accoumpted, whiche 
(as Cicero saithe) is nothing els, but a certaine induction and order of 
teaching, consisting of places and Images, as it were in a paper, deuised, 
firste in Caracters by Simonides Melito, afterwarde broughte to perfection 
by Metrodorus Scepticus.... Cicero hath written thereof in his newe 
Rhetorike, Quintilian in his Institutions, Seneca, and of the fresher sorte, 
Franciscus Petrarcha, Mareolus of Verona, Petrus of Ravenna, and 
Hermannus Buschius, and others, but vnworthie of rehersal, men little 
knowen ’ (Eng. trans. cap. 10, ed. 1575). Giordano Bruno also wrote an 
Ars Memorize. [27] dischargeth : i.e. dismisses, relieves us of, 
P. 166, [3] distinguish: i. ¢. assert distinctly, decide. Bacon refers to 
what he said on p. 84: ‘my purpose is, at this time, to note only 
omissions and deficiencies, and not to make any redargution of errors, or 
incomplete prosecutions.” [5] De Augm. vi. 1. [12] the organ of 
tradition: The Latin adds que et grammatica dicitur. [13] Arist. De 
Interp. i. 1. [15] it: Omitted in editions of 1605, 1629, 1633. [24] 
China, and the kingdoms of the High Levant: In Acosto’s Naturall and 
