BOOK I. 



P. 44. [12] arch-type: Arch-tipe in eel. 1605; Arch-type edd. 1629, 

 1633. [Ib.] first platform: exemplari. Comp. Ess. xlix. p. 194: So I 

 have made a platforme of a princely garden, partly by precept, partly by 

 drawing, not a modell, but some generall lines of it. [18] Comp. Prov. 

 viii. 22-31. [33] Gen. i. i. 



P. 45. [4] Hooker, Eccl. Pol. i. 4. i, 2. [5] Dionysius, De Cselesti 

 Hierarchia, 6, 7, 8, 9. A work erroneously ascribed to Dionysius the 

 Aieopagite. The epithet supposed shows that Bacon believed it to be 

 spurious. The Latin has merely qua Dionysii Areopagita nomine evul- 

 gatur. Thomas Heywood, in his Hierarchic of the Blessed Angels 

 (1635), divides them into Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones. Dominations, 

 Vertues, Powers, and Principats. See also Milton, Par. Lost, v. 601, 

 772, 840. [15] Gen. i. 3. [22] Gen. ii. 3. [32] Gen. ii. 19. 



P. 46. [i] Comp. pp. 5, 6. [7] In a note on the corresponding pas 

 sage of the De Augmentis Mr. Ellis quotes from S. Thomas Aquinas, 

 Summ. Theol. Sec. Secund. q. 163. a. 2: Primus homo peccavit princip- 

 alifer appetendo similitudinem Dei quantum ad scientiam boni et niali, sicnl 

 serpens ei suggessit, ut scilicet per virtutem proprice naturae determinant sibi 

 quid esset bonum et quid malum ad agendum. [13] Gen. iv. 2. [23] Gen. 

 iv. 21, 22. [25] Gen. xi. [30] Acts vii. 22. Comp. Of the Interpreta 

 tion of Nature, p. 219. [32] Plato, Tim. iii. 22. Comp. Nov. Org. i. 

 71 ; Apoph. 223. 



P. 47. [n] Lev. xiii. 12, 13. [14-18] Among the Regales Aphoristni 

 or maxims of King James I. edited by W. Stratton, 1650, is the follow 

 ing, evidently borrowed from this passage: As it is a principle of nature, 

 that putrifaction is more contagious before maturity than after ; so it is 

 a position of Moral Philosophic, that men abandoned to vice, do not so 

 much corrupt manners, as those that are half good and half evill (p. 165). 

 In De Augm. iii. i, Bacon gives as a rule in physics, Putredo serpens 

 magis contagiosa est quam matura. [24] Job xxvi. 7. [28] Job xxvi. 13. 

 [30] Job xxxviii. 31. 



P. 48. [i] Job ix. 9. [5] Job x. 10. [7] Jobxxviii. 1,2. [12] i Kings 

 iii. 5, &c. [17] verdure: verdor edd. 1605, 1629, 1633, which Mr. 

 Spedding would retain as another form of the word. It probably only 

 represents the current pronunciation. The corresponding passage of the 

 treatise Of the Interpretation of Nature, p. 220, has all that is green. 

 [18] the moss upon the wall: The English version of i Kings iv. 33 

 has hyssop. Bacon followed the rendering of Junius and Tremellius. 

 [19] Nov. Org. ii. 30. [20-24] Nay, the same Salomon the king, 

 although he excelled. . . yet he maketh &c.: The same loose construction 

 as before, pp. 20. 1. 27; 39. 11. ii, 32, 33. [26] Prov. xxv. 2. Comp. 

 the corresponding passage Of the Interpretation of Nature, p. 220. 



P. 49. [4] Luke ii. 46. [8] Acts ii. i. [iH] who was only learned: 

 i. e. the only learned man among the Apostles. Lat. qui inter Apostolos 



