370 GLOSSARY. 2 3 4 
Spinosity, sb. Thorniness: p. 148, 1. 26. 
Spleen, sb. Ill humour, anger; of which the spleen was believed to be 
the seat: p. 245, |. 8. 
‘If she must teem, 
Create her child of spleen; that it may live, 
And be a thwart disnatured torment to her.’ 
Shakespeare, K. Lear, i. 4. 304. 
See also the quotation under Arrogancy. 
Stand, v.i. To stand firm, keep one’s position: p. 23, 1. 313 p. 36,1. 32. 
See Eph. vi. 13. To stop: p. 210, 1. 8. 
Stand with. To be consistent with: p. 112,111, ‘It is true, speedie 
profit is not to be neglected, as farre as may stand, with the good of 
the plantation, but no further.’ Essay xxxiii. p. 139. 
State, sb. Original condition: p. 27,1. 26; p. 195, 1.6. Estate: p 149, 
1. 26. ‘Certainly who hath a state to repaire, may not despise small 
things.’ Essay xxviii. p. 117. Stability: p. 193, 1. 23. ‘In the favours 
of others or the good windes of fortune we have no séate or certainty.’ 
Colours of Good and Evil, p. 262. 
Station, sb. A standing-place: p. 119, 1. 17. 
Statua, sb. Statue: p. 72, 1. 21; p. 85, 1. 29; p. 202, 1. 24; p. 241, L. 9. 
‘Even at the base of Pompey’s statua.’ 
Shakespeare, Jul. Cas. iii. 2, 192. 
Stay, sb. A standstill: p. 37, 1. 2. ‘He that standeth at a stay, when 
others rise, can hardly avoid motions of envy.’ Essay xiv. p. 52. 
Stay, v i. To stand still, rest; p. 119, 1. 5. To dwell: p. 233, 1. 26. 
Still, adv. Constantly: p. 39, 1. 16; p. 69,1. 11; p. 72, 1. 28, 
‘Thou call’dst me up at midnight to fetch dew 
From the sfill-vex'd Bermoothes,’ 
Shakespeare, Tempest, i. 2, 229. 
Stond, sb. An impediment, hindrance: p. 211, 1. 3. ‘ The removing of 
the stonds and impediments of the mind doth often clear the passage and 
current of a man’s fortune.’ Bacon, Disc. touching Helps for the Intell. 
Powers (Works, vii. 99). See also Essay xl. p. 165. 
Stood upon. Insisted upon: p. 8, 1. 30; p. 174, 1. 28. ‘But it is so 
plaine, that every man profiteth in that hee most intendeth, that it needeth 
not be stood upon.’ Essay xxix. p. 126. 
Story, sb. History: p. 86,1. 4; p. go, 1.32. See 2 Chr. xiii. 22, 
Strait, adj. Tight: p. 210, 1, 10; p. 219, |. 13. 
Straitly, adv, Strictly: p. 43, 1.3. See Gen. xliii. 7. 
Stroke. Struck; the preterite of ‘strike’: p. 150, Il. 32, 33. 
Stupid. ‘Reduced to stupid’=rendered stupid: p, 216, 1. 33. Compare 
‘leaveth it for suspect,’ p. 81, |. 12. 
Style, sb. Title or formula, designation: p. 44, 1. 333; p. 57, 1. 27. 
Style, sb. The pen of the ancient Greeks and Romans, one end of 
which was pointed for the purpose of writing on the wax tablets; 
the other broad.and flat to erase what had been written. Hence the 
Latin phrase vertere stylum, to turn the style,=to erase, and this is 
imitated by Bacon, p. 61, 1. 23. 
Styled. See note on p. 101,1. 19. Perhaps we should read ‘may be so 
styled,’ 
