GLOSSARY. 365 
xi. p. 39: ‘Nay, retire men cannot, when they would; neither will they, 
when it were reason: but are impatient of privatenesse, even in age, and 
sicknesse, which require the shadow.’ 
Probably, adv. With probability, in a probable manner: p. 156, 1. 29. 
Probation, sb. Trial; and hence, proof from experience: p. 141, l. 10° 
p. £58, lL. 31. 
Proceed, sy i. ‘It proceedeth’ =the result is: p. 79, |. 3. 
Proceeding, sb. Progress: p. 170, 1. 9; p. 173, ll. 9, 10; p. 193, |. 30. 
Proceeding upon. Resulting from: p. 1,1. 2, 
Profession, sb. Means of living, livelihood: p. 42, 1. 25; p. 43, l. 9. 
Professory, adj. Professional: p. 79,1, 1. See p. 43, l. 7, Sc. 
Proficience, sb. Progress, advancement: p. 43, 1. 30; p. 76, |. 27. 
Profiting, sb, Profit, advantage: p. 183, 1. 19. 
Progression, sb, Progress: p. 76,1. 27; p. 78, 1. 27. 
Promiscuous, adj. Mixed indiscriminately: p. 113, 1. 27. 
Proof, sb. Experiment: p. 119, 1, 27. ‘ Good or ill proof’ is the proving 
or turning out good or ill: p. 223, ll. 22, 23. 
Proper, adj. One’s own: p, 182, |. 3. 
Propriety, sb. Peculiarity: p. 1, 1, 10; p. 4,1.9; p.6,1.1. Property: 
p. 113, 1. 18; p. 212, 1. 28; p. 252, 1.12. ‘ Receipts of propriety’ = 
specific receipts, proper or peculiar to certain diseases: p. 140, l. 24. 
‘Not for propriety’=not appropriate to particular diseases, as Bacon 
explains afterwards; p. 141, 1, 2, 
Prosecution, sb, Investigation; p, 84, 1. 7. 
Provocation, sb. Incitement: p. 50, 1. 18. 
Punctual, adj. Minute: p. 25,1. 21. 
Puntos, sb. Minute observances, punctilios; p, 219, |. 2, 
Purchase, sb, Acquisition, that which is acquired; p. 16,1. 4, Value: 
p. 242, l. 14. 
Pureness, sb, Purity: p. 29, |. 3, 
Purgament, sb, An excretion: p. 139, 1. 6. 
Pursuance, sb. A prosecuting or following out, sequence; p, 142, |. 19. 
Pursued, ~.~. Followed out: p, 106, |, 14. 
Pursuit, sb, Consecutiveness, sequence: p. 142, 1. 13; p. 182, I. 29. 
Pusillanimity, sb. Littleness of mind: p. 49, l. 33; p. 205, 1, 13. 
Put forth, v.refl. To endeavour: p, 70, Ll. 2, 
Put to, v.¢4, To apply: p. 156, |. ro, 
Pyramides, sb. p.117,1.18, The old form of the word before it was 
naturalised, Compare Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, v. 2. 61; 
‘Rather make 
My country’s high pyramides my gibbet,’ 
In Minsheu’s Spanish Dictionary (1599), s.v. Piramide, the singular is 
given as ‘pyramis.’ But Cotgrave (Fr, Dict,) and Florio (Ital, Dict.) 
both use ‘ piramides’ as singular, 
Q. 
Question, v.¢, To call in question: p, 132, 1. 16. 
Quintuple, adj. Fivefold: p, 169, 1.14. | 
Quit, v.refl. To get quit of, relieve oneself; p. 221, 1. 16. 
