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construction. Comp. p. 94, 1- 8, and yet her government so mascu 

 line, where the copula is omitted. 



p. 93 . [8] Cicero, De Off. i. 34. Comp. Tac. Hist. i. i. [lo] in 

 the main continuance thereof: Lat. quatenus ad corpus ejus integrum. 

 [12] George Buchanan, who wrote Rerum Scoticamm Historia. To 

 this James I. evidently refers in the second book of his Basilicon Doron, 

 where he reckons among unpardonable crimes the false and vnreverent 

 writing or speaking of malicious men against your parents and pre 

 decessors (Works, p. 158). [21] Bacon himself endeavoured to carry 

 out the plan which he here suggested; but the only part of the work 

 which was completed was the History of Henry VII., published in 1622, 

 during his retirement. Besides this he left a fragment of the history of 

 the reign of Henry VIII. In his letter to the Lord Chancellor touching 

 the history of Britain, to which reference has been made before (p. 58, 

 note), he speaks in nearly the same words of the defects of previous 

 histories. [24] hath been : Observe the construction, and see p. 52, 1. 9. 

 [27] By Henry VII. Compare Bacon, Henry VII. p. 3: There were 

 fallen to his lot, and concurrent in his Person, three seuerall Titles to 

 the Imperiall Crowne. The first, the Title of the Lady Elizabeth, 

 with whom, by precedent Pact with the Partie that brought him in, 

 he was to marry. The second, the ancient and long disputed Title 

 (both by Plea, and Armes) of the House of Lancaster, to which he was 

 Inheritour in his owne Person. The third, the Title of the Sword ^ or 

 Conquest, for that he came in by victorie of Battaile, and that the King 

 in possession was slaine in the Field. [33] Henry VIII. 



p. 94 . [5] Edward VI. and the attempt of the Duke of Northumber 

 land to place Lady Jane Grey on the throne. [6] Comp. Ess. xxix. 

 p. 127 : A civill warre, indeed, is like the heat of a leaver. [7] Mary, 

 married to Philip of Spain. [Ib.] Elizabeth. [8] and yet her govern 

 ment so masculine: The copula is omitted as in p. 92, 1. 33. [8-n] 

 and yet ... thence : Omitted in the Latin. [12] divided from all the 

 world: Comp. Virg. Eel. i. 67, Et penitus toto divisos orbe Britannos. 

 [14] Virg. JEn. iii. 96. [18] Comp. p. 134, L 25, and Ess. xi. p. 43, 

 And as in nature, things move violently to their place, and calmely 

 in their place. [23] it -/redundant. [32] Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, at 

 the end of the 34th book and the beginning of the 35th. Mr. Singer, 

 in Notes and Queries, v. 232, was the first to point out the source of 

 this reference. [33] the ancient fiction : The fable of the three fates, 

 Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. The allusion is more distinctly given 

 in the Latin translation. 



p. 95. [14] Virg. JEn. v. 751. [15] Plin. Ep. iii. 21 : Nam postquam 

 desiimus facere laudanda, laudari qiioque ineptum putamus. [i 7] Prov. 

 x- 7- [24] Cicero, Phil. ix. 5. 10: Vita enim mortnorum in memoria 

 vivorum est posita. The sentiment appears to have been borrowed from the 



