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referred to (Disc. sopra Liv. ii. 10). Nervos belli pecuniam infinitam ; 
Cicero, Phil. v. 2. 5. In Diog. Laert. iv. 48, rdv mAodroy vedpa mpayya- 
rev is quoted as a saying of Bion’s. See also Plutarch, Cleom. 27. 
(6] Lucian, Charon, 10-12. [13] In the third place: ‘the’ is omitted 
in edd, 1605, 1629. [14, 15] Compare Shakespeare, Julius Cesar, 
iv. 3. 218-221, [16] it being extreme hard to play an after game 
of reputation: Lat. Ardua enim res, famam precipitantem retrovertere. 
[26] Virgil, Ecl. ix. 66. [29] Virgil, Georg. iii. 284. 
P. 244. [1] fortune: So in ed. 1605; ‘fortunes’ in edd. 1629, 1633. 
[5] Comp. pp. 211, 213. [6, 7] and bend not...intendeth: Omitted 
in the Latin. [17-19] So that he should exact...and not to stand 
&c.: This mixed construction is of very common occurrence, It 
should be, of course, either ‘So that he should exact...and not stand 
&c.,’ or ‘So that he ought to exact...and not to stand &c.’ See note 
on p. 88, ll. 7-9. [18] an account: So in ed. 1605; ‘an’ is omitted in 
edd. 1629, 1633. [26] Matt. xxiii. 23; Luke xi. 42. [30]—p. 245. 
{2] Omitted in the Latin. The story is told again in the Colours 
of Good and Eyil, 4. 
P. 245. [5] Aristotle, Rhet. ii. 13. § 4; Cicero, De Amic, 16. 
Bacon, Apoph. 182, [8] troublesome spleens: Lat. molestis et turbidis 
odiis, [26] ‘The allusion is probably to Macchiavelli’s Principe, and 
to the Cortigiano of Castiglione.’ (Ellis.) 
P. 246, [4] Machiavelli, Il Principe, 17, 18. [12] Cic. Pro Rege 
Deiot. ix. 25: Pereant amici, &c. [16] ‘Pope Alexander... was 
desirous to trouble the waters in Italy, that he might fish the better.’ 
Hist. of Hen. VII. (Works, vi. 113). [17] Cic. Pro Mur. xxv. 51. 
[19] Plutarch, Lys. 8. [25] Bacon had entered this maxim in his 
Promus or Commonplace book, ‘In actions as in wayes the neerest 
y® fowlest’ (Works, vii. 209), [31] Eccl. ii. r1. 
P. 247. [5] Virg. En, ix. 252. [8] The Latin quotes Cic. Ep. ad 
Att. ix. 12, Atque eum ulciscentur mores sui. [11] Job xv. 35. [20] 
Hor. Sat. ii. 2. 79. [23] Aurelius Victor, Epit. i. 28. [24] Spartianus, 
Vit. Sept. Sev. c. 18; Bacon, Apoph. 98. [33] Charles V., after 
raising the siege of Metz, is reported to have said, ‘ Fortune, I now 
perceive, resembles other females, and chooses to confer her favours 
on young men, while she turns her back on those who are advanced 
in years. Robertson, Charles V. ch. ix. 
P. 248. [6] Matt. vi. 33. [10] sands: ‘same’ in ed. 1605, corrected 
in Errata and edd. 1629, 1633. Mr. Spedding reads ‘sand’ The 
reference of course is to Matt. vii. 24, 27. [11] The dying exclamation 
of Brutus, according to Dio Cassius, xlvii. 49. The Latin is a trans- 
lation of part of two Greek iambics: 
@ tAfjpov dper? Adyos dp od’, eyv BE ce 
ws Epyov faoKouv, ad 3 dp’ eovdAeves TUX. 
