376 GLOSSARY, a 
Whiffier, sb. An officer whose duty it was to clear the way for a proces- 
sion: p.'152, 1. 32. 
‘Which like a mighty whiffler ’fore the king.’ 
Shakespeare, Hen. V. v. Chor. 12. 
Wit, sb. Our modern word ‘intellect’ expresses as nearly as possible the 
meaning which ‘wit’ had in Bacon’s time: p. 33, 1. 26. See note on 
p. 64, 1. 4, and comp. Essay vi. p. 18; xliv. p. 179. ‘Games of wit’ are 
games of skill or science as opposed to games of chance: p. 256, 1. 7. 
With, prep. Occurs where we should now use ‘by.’ ‘ Waited on with’= 
attended by: p. 49,1. 17. ‘Attended with’ =attended by: p. 59, 1. 14. 
Withal, prep. With: p. 24,1.3. Placed after the case it governs, 
Within, prep. Among: p. 46, |. 21, 
Without, prep. Beyond: p. 185, 1. 25; p. 204, 1.11. Comp. 2 Cor. x. 
13, 15. 
Word, sb. Motto: p. 98, 1. 1. 
‘And the device he bears upon his shield 
Is a black Ethiope reaching at the sun; - 
The word, ‘Lux tua vita mihi,’ 
Shakespeare, Per, ii. 2. 2%. 
Work, ‘To set on work’=to set working: p, 198, 1. 7. So ‘to set in 
work’ =to put in motion: p. 240, 1. 23. 
Worthy, sb. A hero: p. 52,1. 4. Comp. ‘the nine worthies’ and Nah. 
ii. 5. 
Wrought, p.p~. Influenced, worked upon: p. 177, 1. 24. { 
Additional. Note. 
P, 228 [20]. Dr. Thompson, the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, 
has pointed out to me that the origin of Bacon’s ‘globe of matter’ and 
‘globe of crystal or form’ is probably the o@aipos aioOnrds and the 
opaipos vonrés of Empedocles as interpreted by Proclus, See Proclus in 
Timzum, p. 160 D, and Simplicius in Physica, p. 7 b. 
