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fidelis, que ad omnes ejus nutus presto sit et ministret, quid prohibeat? [15] 
Ps. cxxiii. 2. [20]-as it may yield of herself: Observe that the neuter 
reflexive pronoun ‘itself’ had not come generally into use. [24]—204. 
[2] the rather .. extant: Instead of this the Latin has only, Zam igitur, 
ex more nostro, cum inter desiderata collocemus, aliqua ex parte adum- 
brabimus. 
P. 204. [7] the husbandman cannot command, neither, &c.: Observe 
the double negative, as in Shakespeare, Mer. of Ven. iii. 4. 11: 
*I never did repent for doing good, 
Nor shall not now.’ 
[11] without our command: i.e. beyond our control. [12-26] For to 
the basis..apply: Altered in the Latin. [16] Virg. En. v. 710, 
‘Superanda omnis fortuna ferendo est.’ [23] properly: ‘ property’ in 
ed, 1605, corrected to ‘ properly’ in the Errata and in ed. 1629, 
P. 205. [2-31] wherein .. malignity: Omitted in the Latin. [6] Aris- 
totle, Eth. Nic. iv. 7. [10] to few: Mr. Spedding conjectures that we 
should read ‘to intend few.’ [18] Virg. Ain. i. 22. [20] See Ex. xxxiv. 
5. [21] Aristotle, Eth. Nic. iv. 6. [30] properly: This is the reading 
of edd. 1605, 1629, 1633, but Mr. Spedding alters it to ‘ property,’ as in 
p- 204, 1. 23. 
P. 206, [2] Lat. cum utrique scientie clarissimum luminis jubar affundere 
possit. [6] These different dispositions are arranged according to the 
planets which are supposed to predominate over them: Saturn, Jupiter, 
Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, and the Moon. Comp. p. 43: ‘Saturn, 
the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil 
society and action.’ [6] Compare Bacon’s Letter to Lord Burghley 
(Life and Letters, i. 108): ‘not as a man born under Sol, that loveth 
honour; nor under Jupiter, that loveth business (for the contemplative 
planet carrieth me away wholly).’ [8-23] A man shall find .. use of 
life: This is entirely omitted in the Latin, and another paragraph sub- 
stituted which is partly made up of a sentence previously omitted (p. 203, 
ll, 24-28), and of a passage of some length in which Bacon points to 
the wiser historians as the source from which to gather materials for 
this treatise on the several characters of natures and dispositions. [9] 
For some of these ‘relations’ see Ranke’s History of the Popes, App. 
§§ 5, 6 (trans. Foster). [16] is: ‘as’ in edd. 1605, 1629, 1633. [21] 
posies : ‘ poesies’ is the spelling of ed. 1605, [26] by the region: Lat. 
patria, [32] Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, iii, 1. 40. 
P. 207. [4] Tit. i. 12, 13, quoting from Epimenides., [6] Sallust, 
Bell. Jug. 113. This is quoted again in Essay xix. p. 77, and there 
attributed to Tacitus: ‘For it is common with princes, (saith Tacitus) 
to will contradictories, Sunt plerumque regum voluntates vehementes, 
& inter se contrarie, For it is the solecisme of power, to thinke to 
