324 NOTES. 
except that on p. 224, 1. 1, are from the Vulgate, which will be found 
in many cases to differ materially from the English Version. [4] 
Eccl. vii. 21. [6] commended: ‘concluded’ in ed. 1605, corrected 
in Errata. [8] Plutarch, Pomp. 20; Sert. 27. [10] Prov. xxix. 9. 
(17] Prov. xxix. 21. [21] Prov. xxii. 29. [26] Eccl. iv. 15. [28] 
Plutarch, Pomp. xiv. 2; Tacitus, Ann. vi. 46. Quoted again in Essay 
xxvii. p. 108; ‘For when he had carried the consulship for a frend 
of his, against the pursuit of Sylla, and that Sylla did a little resent 
thereat, and began to speake great, Pompey turned upon him againe, 
and in effect bad him be quiet; For that more men adored the sunne 
rising, then the sunne setting’ [31] Eccl. x. 4. 
P. 222. [4] Eccl. ix. 14, 15. [Ib.] et pauci: ‘et’ is omitted in ed. 
1605. [5] vallavit: the true reading, but vadavit is in the old editions 
and in the De Augmentis. [9] corruption: So in edd, 1629, 1633: 
‘corruptions’ in ed. 1605. [11] Prov. xv. 1. [14] Prov. xv. 19. 
[16] deferred: ‘ differred’ in ed. 1605. [19] Eccl. vii. 8. [20] about 
prefaces and inducements: Lat. de sermonum suorum aditu atque in- 
gressu. [23] Prov. xxviii. 21. [25] Compare Essay xi. p. 42: ‘As 
for facilitie; it is worse then bribery. For bribes come but now 
and then; but if importunitie, or idle respects lead a man, he shall 
never be without, As Salomon saith; To respect persons, is not good; 
for such a man will transgresse for a peece of bread. {26} lightly: so 
in ed. 1605; ‘highly’ in edd. 1629, 1633. [28] Prov. xxviii. 3. [32] 
Prov. xxv. 26. Comp. Essay lvi. p. 222: ‘One foule sentence doth 
more hurt, then many foule examples. For these doe but corrupt 
the streame; the other corrupteth the fountaine,’ 
P. 223. [4] Prov. xxviii. 24. Omitted in the Latin. [10] Prov. 
xxii. 24. [15] Prov. xi. 29. [20] Prov. x, 1; quoted again in Essay 
vii. p. 24. [25] Prov. xvii.g. [30] Prov. xiv. 23. [32] aboundeth: 
So in ed, 1605. Compare Shakespeare, Rich. II. ii, 1. 258: 
“*Reproach and dissolution hangeth over him.’ 
P. 224. [1] Prov. xviii. 17. [3] in sort: So in ed. 1605; ‘in such 
sort,’ edd. 1629, 1633. [6] Prov. xviii. 8, Omitted in the Latin. [7] 
Here: ‘there’ in edd. 1605, 1629, 1633. [11] Prov. ix. 7,  [Ib.] 
sibi: ‘tibi’ in some copies of ed, 1605, [12] generat: ‘gerit’ in ed, 
1605, corrected in Errata. [16] Prov. ix. 9, [21] Prov. xxvii. 19, 
[26] Oyid, De Art. Am, i. 760. [29]—p. 225. [7] led with a desire... 
examples: The Latin has only, dignitate et rei ipsius et authoris longius 
provecti, 
P. 225. [3] more of the eagle: In Mr. Ellis’s copy of Montagu’s ed. 
of Bacon I find the following MS. note: ‘More of the eagle—that is, 
more of a mystical and recondite character. The allusion is to the 
eagle as the symbol of S. John, and to the character of his gospel. 
