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P. 123. [2] Lat. qua magis ingeniosa qutdem res est et sagax, quam 

 philosophica. [7] Hor. Od. ii. 10. 3. [16] in books : Among others the 

 Magia Naturalis of Baptista Porta, published in 1589. [22] Bacon uses 

 the same comparison in his treatise Of the Interpretation of Nature 

 (Works, iii. 234). The story of King Arthur of Britain was compiled 

 from the French legends by Sir Thomas Malory about the year 1470, 

 and was first printed by Caxton in 1485. Sir John Bourchier, Lord 

 Berners, the translator of Froissart, also translated from the French, at 

 the request of the Earl of Huntingdon, the romance of Sir Hugh of 

 Bourdeaux, a knight of the age of Charlemagne (Warton, Hist, of Eng. 

 Poetry, iii. 342, ed. 1824). This was printed by William Copland 

 about 1540. In Burton s time these romances were the favourite reading 

 of the country squires. If they read a book at any time . . tis an 

 English chronicle, S!&quot; Huon of Bordeaux, Amadis de Gaul, &c., a play- 

 book, or some pamphlet of news. (Anat. of Mel. i. p. 205, ed. 1813). 

 The romance of Hugh of Bourdeaux supplied the incidents of Wieland s 

 Oberon. For a summary of it see Dunlop s History of Fiction, i. 394- 

 419 (ed. 1816). Montaigne (i. 25, trans. Florio, p. 85, ed. 1603) says, 

 of King Arthur, of Lancelot du-Lake, of Amadis, of Huon of Burdeaux, 

 and such idle time-consuming, and wit-besotting trash of bookes wherein 

 youth doth commonly ammuse it-selfe, I was not so much as acquainted 

 with their names. [27] the fable of Ixion : Pindar, Pyth. ii. 21. 



P. 124. [19] medicines, motions: Lat. medicinas proprias, accommodata 

 etlam exercitia. [21] Lat. qnam quod hoc fieri possit per guttas paucnlas, 

 ant scrupulos alicnjns pretiosi liquoris ant quintessentice. [3 2] This inven 

 tory was intended to occupy the tenth chapter of the treatise Of the 

 Interpretation of Nature. 



P. 125. [9] deducing: diducing in ed. 1605. [15] In the De Aug- 

 mentis Bacon omits the example of the mariner s compass and sub 

 stitutes the experiments made by Drebbel on the artificial congelation 

 of water by means of ice and saltpetre. To this he again alludes in 

 the fifth book of the De Augmentis. See Mr. Ellis s note (Works, i. p. 

 628, note i). [24] Virg. Eel. x. 8. [26] See Nov. Org. i. 35. Alex 

 ander (properly Roderigo) Borgia was Pope Alexander VI., and the 

 expedition of the French was that under Charles VIII. in 1494. Bacon 

 quotes the story again in his Redargutio Philosophiarum (Works, iii. 

 558), and in his Hist, of Hen. VII. (Works, vi. 158). 



P. 126. [i] De Augm. iii. 4. [5] Non liquet was a Roman legal 

 formula, by which the judge declared his inability to decide upon 

 the guilt or innocence of the accused : like the Scotch not proven. [14, 

 15] the entry of doubts are: An instance of a loose construction of 

 frequent occurrence, Jn which the verb agrees in number with the 

 substantive interposed between it and its subject. Comp. Shakespeare, 

 Hamlet, i. 2. 36-38 : 



