NOTES. 



copies of ed. 1605 which I have seen. Mr. Markby quotes prejudicial as 

 the reading of others. [33] ragioni di stato : reasons of state, political 

 considerations. 



P. 14. [i] Catena, Vita di Pio V. p. 31 (ed. 1586), reports a saying of 

 the Pope, something to this effect, with reference to the maxim of Louis 

 XI. of France, Chi non sk simulare non sa regnare. See also 

 Gabutius, Vita Pii V. lib. vi. c. 7 (Acta Sanctorum, 5 Maii, ed. 1866), 

 and lib. ii. c. 3. [9] Lat. ad regendos eventus vitce etiam in uno homine. 

 Perhaps the reading of the English should be for the events even of 

 one man s life. [27] positive and regular: Lat. pertinaces et difficile*. 

 [30] latitude : Lat. constantiam. 



P. i-5- [5] Guicciardini, Hist. xvi. 5. [8] Cic. ad Att. xvi. 7. [9] 

 Phocion: see his life by Plutarch, [n] Pindar, Pyth. ii. 21 &c. 

 Bacon interprets the fable of Ixion in the present work, p. 123. [13] 

 Cicero, Ep. ad Att. ii. i. 



P. 1 6. [2] according to nature: natura consentaneis. [4] and not in 

 the purchase: i.e. not in that which is acquired by it. [10] Seneca, 

 Ep. i. 3. Qnidam adeo in latebras refugere, ut putent in turbido esse, 

 quicquid in luce /, from Pomponius. [24] Plutarch, Demosth. viii. 2, 

 where the story is told of Pytheas, not ^Eschines. Comp. Apoph. 114. 

 [32] of both : The Latin adds et negotiorum et liter arum. 



P. 1 7. [4] duty taught and understood : officium oculatum. [8] mani- 

 able: Some copies of ed. 1605 read amiable. [10, n] Lat. quod ex 

 historia clarissime patet. [14] Plutarch, Cato, ii. 6. Cic. Acad. Qusest 

 ii. 2. 5 ; De Senect. i. 3. 



P. 18. [2] The Thirty Tyrants: After the battle of ^Egospotami 

 (Sept. B.C. 405), which virtually terminated the Peloponnesian War, 

 a committee of thirty was appointed for the government of Athens, 

 with Critias and Theramenes among the chief. Their rule lasted 

 only eight months (B c. 404-403) and was put an end to by Thrasy- 

 bulus. [9] for sovereign medicines: i.e. to be sovereign medicines. 

 [20] Hor. Od. i. 3. 2. [21] influence: A word derived from the old 

 astrology. See Eng. vers. of Job xxxviii. 31. 



P. 19. [8] Lat. Fralribus mendicantibus (pace eorum dixerim). [8, 8] 

 to some friar ... to whom : Compare for the construction, Book ii. 

 10. p. 80, 11. 4, 5. [10] Machiavelli, Disc, sopra Liv. iii. i. Quoted 

 for a different purpose in the tract On the Controversies of the Church 

 (Bacon s Life and Letters, ed. Spedding, i. 80). [31] Epist. i. ad C. 

 Csesarem, De Republica Ordinanda, ascribed to Sallust. 



P. 20. [i] A saying attributed to Diogenes the Cynic. See Diog. 

 Laert. vi. 54. [6] Prov. xxviii. 22. [7] Prov. xxiii. 23. [13] For 

 the construction in comparison of see Judg. viii. 2, 3. [22] Tac. 

 Ann. iii. 76 : Sed prcefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus, eo ipso quod effigies 

 eorum non visebantur. [25] traduced to contempt : i. e. contemptuously 



