318 NOTES. Ai 2 va 
see more then gamesters: and the vale best discovereth the hill’? [27] 
of active matter: i.e. concerning subjects of active life. [29] The story 
is told by Cicero, De Orat. ii. 18. 75. 
P. 199. [4] The Basilicon Doron, written by King James for the in- 
struction of his eldest son, Prince Henry, and published in 1603. It is 
in three books: the first, ‘Of a kings Christian dutie towards God;’ 
the second, ‘Of a kings dutie in his office;’ and the third, ‘Of a kings 
behaviour in indifferent things.’ [9] not sick of dizziness: Lat. non 
vertigine aliguando corripitur, The edition of 1605 has ‘ Dusinesse,’ 
which is corrupted to ‘ Businesse’ in the editions of 1629 and 1633. 
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{11] nor of convulsions .. impertinent: Lat. non digressionibus distrahitur, — 
ut illa que nihil ad rhombum sunt expatiatione aliqua flexuosa complectatur. 
[23] a great cause of judicature: Mr. Spedding says, ‘ Probably in the 
case of Sir Francis Goodwin, in 1604, when the question was whether it 
belonged to the House of Commons or the Court of Chancery to judge 
of the validity of an election. [28] The title of this work of king James 
is‘ The True Lawe of Free Monarchies, or the reciprock and mutuall 
dutie betwixt a free king, and his naturall subiects.’” It was first 
published anonymously in 1603, and was afterwards included in the 
collected edition of the king’s works published in 1616. 
P. 200. [10] In the De Augm. Bacon quotes the example of Pliny the 
younger in his panegyric on Trajan. [14] part: ‘partie’ in ed. 1605, 
corrected in Errata. [25] Prov. xiv. 6. [30] Comp. Shakespeare, Cyms 
beline, ii. 4. 107% 
‘It is a basilisk unto mine eye, 
Kills me to look on’t.’ 
[32] which .. they leese: Another example of the redundance of the 
pronoun. See note on p. 21, l. 26. 
P. 201. [2-17] Comp. Bacon, Meditationes Sacre, 3. [16] Prov. 
xviii. 2, quoted from the Vulgate. [18] for construction, see p. 52, Ll. 9. 
[30] Lucius Brutus: See Livy, bk. ii. 5. [33] Virg. n. vi. 823; facta 
for fata is the true reading, but the latter is also found in the De Aug- 
mentis. 
P. 202. [2] This discussion is related by Plutarch, Brutus, xii. 2. [11] 
Comp. Shakespeare, Mer. of Ven. iv. 1. 216: 
‘To do a great right, do a little wrong.’ 
{12] Plutarch, De Sanitate Preecepta, 24; Praecepta Gerund. Reip. 24; 
Bacon, Apoph. 138. [20] De Augm. vii. 3. [26] Aristotle, Magn. 
Mor. i. I. 
P. 203. [3] Cicero, Pro Mureena, 30. § 62. [6] Seneca, Ep. 71. § 2. 
{9] Hippocrates, Aphorism. ii.6. [13,14] Lat. attamen philosophiam 
moralem in famulitium theologie recipi instar ancille prudentis et pedisseque 
