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same words. [3] lives: lynes in ed. 1605. [6] rare: grace in some 

 copies of 1605 ; others read great. In the Errata it is corrected to rare, 

 and this is the reading of edd. 1629 and 1633. [12] her: So in some 

 copies of ed. 1605; others read the. [30] to the purpose: that is, as 

 regards the purpose &c. 



P. 59. [12] Plutarch, Alex. 8. i. [19] Achilles: Plut. Alex. 15. 3. 

 [22] Pliny, H. N. vii. 30; Plutarch, Alex. 26. i. [25] Plutarch, Alex. 

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P. 60. [i-io] And herein ... praises : Omitted in the Latin. [14] 

 Plutarch, Alex. 14. 2. [i 7] Seneca, De Benef. v. 4. 4. [23] Plutarch, 

 De Adulatore et Amico, 25 ; Alex. 22. 2. [27] The Latin adds, cum 

 tarn indigentia quam redundantia natura, per ilia duo designata, mortis 

 sini tanquam arrhabones. [31] Seneca, Ep. Mor. vi. 7. 12. Plutarch, 

 Alex. 28. i. [32] Horn. II. v. 340 ; IX&P oUs irep TC peti fj.andpffffft 



P. 61. [2] Plutarch, Alex. 74. 2. [6, 7] that was the matter: We 

 should say, that was the point. Lat. hoc ipsum animos eis dedit. [15] 

 Plutarch, Alex. 53. 2. Quoted again by Bacon in his Letter to the 

 King on a Digest of the Laws of England (Cabala, p. 76). [24, 25] 

 Lat. Callisthenes negotium in se recepit, idque tarn acerbe tamque aculeate 

 prastitit &c. [29] translation : Bacon uses this word as the rendering of 

 metaphor, borrowing it from the Lat. translatio as employed by Cicero. 

 [30] Plutarch, Apoph. Reg. et Imp. Alex. 17. Mr. Ellis has pointed 

 out that Bacon, following Erasmus, misunderstood the story. Holland 

 translates it : When some there were who much praised unto him the 

 plainenesse and homelie simplicitie of Antipater, saying that he lived an 

 austere and hard life, without all superfluities and delicious pleasures 

 whatsoever: Well (quoth he) Antipater weares in outward shew his 

 apparell with a plaine white welt or guard, but he is within all purple 

 (I warrant you) and as red as scarlet ( Avrhrarpo* XevKOTrapvQos tan, ra 

 8 evSov 6\oir6p&amp;lt;j)vpo$}. 



P. 62. [3-9] Plutarch, Alex. 31. 5. Quoted again in Ess. xxix. 

 p. 120. [i 3] ^ Plutarch, Alex. 47. 3. [19] according to the model of 

 their own mind : Comp. Hor. Epist. i. 7. 98, Metiri se quemque suo 

 modulo ac pede verum est. [21] Plutarch, Alex. 29. 3. [25] Perdiccas, 

 according to Plutarch, was the only one of Alexander s friends who 

 asked the question. Plutarch, Alex. 15. 2. [30] Plutarch, Cses. 11. 

 i. Crassus became surety to Caesar s creditors for 880 talents, before 

 he was allowed to take the prsetorship in Spain. [32] This story of the 

 Duke of Guise had been heard by Bacon when he was in France in 1576. 

 In his Apology concerning the Earl of Essex, he says, in reference to 

 Essex s offer of a piece of land, My answer, I remember, was, that for 

 my fortune it was no great matter; but that his lordship s offer made 

 me to call to mind what was wont to be said, when I was in France, of 



