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them to the marrow in the back, and is the place where they say the 

 memory is seated. Vigo defines the brain as a substance full of 

 marrowe diuided into three ventricles, of which there is one in the 

 fore part which is greater then the other three. The second is in 

 the middest. The third hath his residence in the hinder part. And 

 therefore after Galens iudgement, it is the foundation of imagination, 

 and of deuising, and of remembrance (Works, fol. 66, Lond. 1586). 

 Compare Chaucer, Knight s Tale, 1378: 



Engendrud of humour malencolyk, 

 Byforne in his selle fantastyk. 



[7] Differently arranged in De Augm. ii. 13, where much new matter 

 is introduced. [13] Hor. De Art. Poet. 9. [19] may be styled: that 

 is, may have this title of feigned history, whether written in prose or 

 verse. 



P. 102. [i 6] After this paragraph there is added in the De Aug- 

 mentis one on Dramatic Poetry. [32] The seven wise men were Solon, 

 Thales, Pittacus, Bias, Chilon, Cleobulus, and Periander of Corinth. 

 Instead of the last, Plato (Protag. i. 343) enumerates Myso. Their 

 maxims have been collected in Orelli s Opuscula Grsecorum veterum 

 sententiosa et moralia. As other instances of parabolical wisdom the 

 Latin mentions tessera Pythagora, and anigmata sphingis. The former 

 of these are associated with ^Egyptian hieroglyphics by Plutarch (De 

 Isid. et Osir. 10) in a passage which Bacon probably had in his 

 mind. 



P. 103. [15] Both these fables are quoted by Bacon in his fifteenth 

 Essay, Of Seditions and Troubles, with substantially the same com 

 ments. In the De Augm. is substituted a lengthened discussion of the 

 fables of Pan, Perseus, and Dionysus. See also Wisdom ot the Ancients, 

 c . 9 . [ 2 i] Virg. JEn. iv. 178. [30] Thetis, not Pallas. See Horn. 

 II. i. 398, &c. 



P. 104. [2] Achilles: Horn. II. xi. 832 ; Plutarch (De Musica, xl. 4). 

 [4] Machiavel: The Prince, c. 18. Mr. Ellis, in his note on this 

 passage, suggested that As two of the animals are the same it is 

 possible that Macchiavelli was thinking of what was said of Boniface 

 VIII. by the predecessor whom he forced to abdicate, that he came 

 in like a fox, would reign like a lion, and die like a dog. [i i] Chry- 

 sippus: a Stoic philosopher, born B.C. 280. Bacon here refers to 

 what Cicero says of him, De Nat. Deor. i. 15, 58-41. [13] the 

 fictions: the is omitted in some copies of ed. 1605. [16-20] Surely 

 meaning : The construction of this sentence is imperfect, though the 

 sense is clear. [16] Homer : The same remark is made by Rabelais (Gar- 

 gantua, prol.) of the allegorical interpretations of Homer by Plutarch, 

 Eustathius, Heraclides Ponticus and Cornutus. [17] To the Greeks 



