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bonnm simplex esse, non ex accidente, ut cumfraude. [27] Lucr. ii. i-io, 

 quoted again in Ess. i. p. 3. 



P. 72. [n] to this tend: tend is omitted in ed. 1605, but added in the 

 Errata. [19] infinite: used loosely for innumerable. The Lat. has 

 innumera. It occurs once in the same sense in Shakespeare, Tim. of 

 Ath. v. I. 37: a satire against the softness of prosperity, with a dis 

 covery of the infinite flatteries that follow youth and opulency. 1 [Ib.] 

 have been decayed: that is, have been brought to decay, fallen into 

 decay. [21] statuaes: so in ed. 1605. Statua was the old form of 

 the word while still unnaturalized which Bacon adopted. See Glossary 

 to his Essays. [23, 24] cannot but leese of the life and truth: that is, 

 cannot but lose some of the life and truth. 



P- 73- W Bacon here refers to Aristotle and his followers, [n] 

 affection: The true reading is probably affections, as in 1. 14. [25] 

 Phsedr. iii. 12. Quoted again in Ess. xiii. p. 48. It was a favourite 

 fable with Bacon. Comp. Of the True Greatness of Britain (Works, 

 vii. 57): In which people (i.e. the Swiss) it well appeared what an 

 authority iron hath over gold at the battle of Granson, at what time one 

 of the principal jewels of Burgundy was sold for twelve pence by a poor 

 Swiss, that knew no more a precious stone than did -ffisop s cock. 

 See Commines, B. v. c. 2. [26] Midas : Ovid, Metam. xi. 153, &c. 

 [29] Paris: Eurip. Troad. 924, &c. [30] Tac. Ann. xiv. 9, Occidat 

 dum imperet. [31] any : Omitted in ed. 1605, but added in the Errata. 

 [32] Horn. Od. v. 218 ; Plutarch, Gryll. I ; Cic. de Orat. i. 44. Quoted 

 again in Ess. viii. p. 27. 



P. 74. [2] must: Omitted in ed. 1605, but added in the Errata. [4] 

 Matt. xi. 19, quoted from the Vulgate. 



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P. 75. [1-7] Comp. Ess. viii. p. 26: Yet it were great reason, that 

 those that have children, should have greatest care of future times ; unto 

 which, they know, they must transmit their dearest pledges. [9-12] 

 and yet so ... survive her: Omitted in the Lat., apparently for the reason 

 mentioned in note on p. 21, 11. 16-21. [19] affection: Lat. studium 

 meum erga literas. 



P- 76- [3] Hercules columns : The two rocks Calpe (Gibraltar} and 

 Abyla (Ximiera, or Jebel el Mina) on either side of the Straits of Gibraltar 

 were so called by the ancients, as being supposed to mark the end of 

 the western wanderings of Hercules, and so the limits of early geogra 

 phical knowledge in that direction (comp. Pindar, Nem. iii. 35 ; Herod. 

 iv. 42, 181, 185). Pliny says of the Straits of Gibraltar (Hist. Nat. iii. 

 proem, trans. Holland, ed. 1601): Of both sides of this gullet, neere 

 unto it, are two mountaines set as frontiers and rampiers to keepe all in : 

 namely, Abila for Africke, Calpe for Europe, the utmost end of Hercules 



