BOOK I. 325, 
As is known, the four beasts in Ezechiel are taken by S. Jérome to 
typify the 4 evangelists.’ [6] deducements: ‘diducements’ in ed, 1605. 
[13] for fables: Lat. quod ad fabulas, [17] of negotiation and 
occasions: Lat. de negotiis et occasionibus sparsis. [18] See p. 97. 
[28] may: ‘manye’ in ed. 1605, corrected to ‘may’ in the Errata. 
Some copies of ed. 1605 have ‘maye.’ [30] action: ‘gaine’ in ed. 
1605, corrected in Errata and edd. 1629, 1633. Mr. Spedding con- 
jectures aime. 
P. 226. [3] histories: So all the old editions. We should probably 
read ‘history.’ [5] because it is: The edd. of 1605, 1629, 1633 have 
simply ‘is.’ The reading of the text is from the Errata to ed. 1605. 
Mr. Markby mends the passage thus: ‘so history of lives is the most 
proper for discourse of business, for discourse of business is more con- 
versant in private actions.’ Mr. Spedding prints, ‘so histories of Lives 
is the most proper for discourse of business, as more conversant in 
private actions.’ In the text of ed. 1605 the passage stands thus: 
*so Histories of Liues is the moste proper for discourse of businesse 
is more conversante in priuate actions.’ [9] great: Mr. Spedding 
conjectures ‘nearer.’ - Perhaps ‘greater’ may be the true reading, ed, 
1605 having ‘greate” The Latin is, epistole magis in proximo et ad 
vivum negotia solent representare. [12] of this part of civil knowledge, 
touching negotiation: Lat. portionis prime doctrine de negotiis, que tractat 
occasiones sparsas. (14, &c.] Read with this passage Essay xxiii., ‘Of 
Wisedome for a Mans Selfe.’ [22] like ants, which is &c.: For the 
construction compare 1. 4 above, and p, 208, 1.12. Perhaps we should 
read ‘like an ant, which is &c.’ Comp. Ess. xxiii. p. 96: *An ant 
is a wise creature for it selfe; but it is a shrewd thing, in an orchard, 
or garden,’ [24] Plautus, Trinummus, ii. 2. 82. [26] This proverb 
is usually ascribed to Appius Claudius. See the treatise De Republ. 
Ordin. i, 1, formerly attributed to Sallust. Both this and the following 
quotation are repeated in Essay xl. ‘Of Fortune.’ [27] Livy xxxix. 40. 
[30] Read with this paragraph Essay xl. 
P, 227. [3] Plutarch, Sylla, vi. 5. [7] Ezek. xxix. 3. [8] Hab. i. 
16. [10] The Latin adds de contemptore Deum Mezentio, [11] Virg. 
ZEn. x. 773. [Ib.] missile: ‘inutile? in ed. 1605, but corrected in 
Errata. [12] The Latin adds another story of Julius Cesar from 
his life by Suetonius, c. 77. [16] Plutarch, Sylla, vi. 5. [18] Plutarch, 
Cesar, c. 38. [19] positions: Lat. sententia. [20] Sapiens dominabitur 
astris: Mr. Ellis says, ‘This sentence is ascribed to Ptolemy by 
Cognatus.’” Compare Albumazar, i. 7: 
‘Indeed, th’ Agyptian Ptolomy the wise 
Pronounc’d it as an oracle of truth, sapiens dominabitur astris.’ 
{Ib.] Invia virtuti &c,: Ovid, Met, xiv, 113. [29] Suetonius, Octay, 
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