BOOK II. 299 



Giving to you no further personal power 

 To business with the king, more than the scope 

 Of these delated articles allow. 



Compare also Sanderson, Serm. iv. Ad Magistratum (Works, vol. ii. p. 

 274, ed. Jacobson, 1854): The result of these particulars amount in 

 the whole to this. An example in which the intervening substantive is 

 in the singular is in Mid. Night s Dr. iii. 2. 97: 



1 With sighs of love that cos/5 the fresh blood dear. 

 And again, Com. of Err. v. i. 69, 70: 



The venom clamours of a jealous woman 

 Poisons more deadly than a mad dog s tooth. 

 [15] use, in the sense of interest or increase: Lat. incrementa. 



P. 127. [14] The Lat. omits Empedocles and adds Philolaus, Xeno- 

 phanes, Anaxagoras, and Leucippus. [16] In 1574 Amurath III. on 

 succeeding to the throne caused his five brothers to be strangled, and 

 in 1595 Mahomet III. removed all his brothers in the same way and 

 caused ten of his father s wives and concubines to be drowned (Knolles, 

 Hist, of the Turks, pp. 919, 1056, ed. 1603). See Nov. Org. i. 67. 

 [18] Lat. tamen Us, qni non regnum out magisterium sed verilatis inqui- 

 titionem atqne illustrationem sibi proponunt. [24] the received astronomy: 

 That is, the Ptolemaic system, in which the earth was the centre of the 

 universe. See p. 97, 1. 32, Ess. xxiii. p. 96, and Shakespeare, Troilus 

 and Cressida, i. 3. 85 : The heavens themselves, the planets, and this 

 centre. On the slowness with which the Copernican theory was diffused, 

 and especially Bacon s opposition to it, see Whewell s Hist, of the Ind. 

 Sciences, i. 404-412, ed. 1847. Copernicus died in 1543, and his 

 opinions were introduced into England mainly through Giordano Bruno, 

 who came over about 1583. [31] Arist. Phys. i. i. 



P. 128. [7-11] In the Latin the sources of information are indicated; 

 viz. the lives of the philosophers, Plutarch s collection of their opinions, 

 the quotations of Plato, the refutation of Aristotle, and the scattered 

 notices in Lactantius, Philo, Philostratus, and the rest, [i 2] severedly : 

 The editions of 1605, 1633 all read severely, but severedly is the 

 reading in ed. 1629 and in the Errata to ed. 1605. Mr. Markby reads 

 severally in the same sense. [23, 24] The Latin more clearly, Neque 

 absimilis est ratio philosophies, quando proponitur integra, et quando in 

 frusta concisa et dissecta. [26] Theophrastus of Hohenheim, called 

 Paracelsus, was born at Einsiedlen near Zurich in 1493 ; died at 

 Salzburg in the 47th year of his age, 24 Sept. 1541. His works on 

 chemistry and medicine were collected in ten volumes and printed at 

 Frankfort in 1603. [28] Severinus: Petrus Severinus, a Danish phy 

 sician, born at Ripen in 1542, died in 1602. The work in which he 

 reduced into harmony the philosophy of Paracelsus was Idea 



