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ing beans (Cic. de Div. i. xxx. 62) and the fish melanurus, to which 

 Plutarch gives a mystical signification (De Educ. Pueror. 17). [3] 

 Manichees : ed. 1605 has Mamcheas. For the rules of life which Manes 

 laid down for his followers see Mosheim, Eccl. Hist. cent. 3. part. ii. ch. 

 5. 10. [4] Mahomet : During the month of Ramadan, from the 

 rising to the setting of the sun, the Musulman abstains from eating, 

 and drinking, and women, and baths, and perfumes ; from all nourish 

 ment that can restore his strength, from all pleasure that can gratify 

 his senses. Gibbon, Decline and Fall, c. 50. [Ib.] do exceed: Lat. 

 omtiem modum superant. [5] See Lev. iii. 17; xi. [7] the faith : Lat. 

 Christiana fides. [12] the ceremony : the Lat. adds et excercitium obedi- 

 entiae. [16] question = call in question: Lat. in dubium revocare. [19] 

 Lat. qni simul cum malris ajfectibus compatitur, et tamen e cor pore matris 

 suo tempore excluditur. 



P- J 33- [3] Apoph. 236. Said by Socrates of a treatise of Heraclitus 

 which had been lent him by Euripides (Diog. Laert. ii. 22). The same 

 is told of Crates (Diog. Laert. ix. 12). [n] Plato, Timoeus, iii. 69, 70, 

 referred to by Montaigne, Ess. ii. 12. See Cic. Tusc. Disp. i. 10. 

 [13] Lat. cum tumori et superbice sit propior. [15] In the Latin is 

 added a reference to the classification of the intellectual faculties, 

 fancy, reason, and memory, according to the ventricles of the brain. 

 [19] De Augm. iv. 2. [25] Tac. Ann. xvi. 18. [26] Lat. Subjectum 

 istud medicines (corpus nhnirum humanum). The word other is super 

 fluous. Compare Ess. ix. p. 35 : We will adde this, in generall, 

 touching the Affection of Envy ; that of all other Affections, it is the 

 most importune, and continual!. 



P. 134. [i] See Plato, Timseus, iii. 43 &c. [2] Severinus (see above 

 p. 128) in his Idea Medicinse Philosophies, pp. 36, 37, after describing 

 the researches of the physician as ranging through the whole economy 

 of nature, proceeds : Hisce perceptis ad humanam rempublicam descendit, 

 et diuina quidem analogic, maioris mundl dispositionem tanquam parentis, 

 microcosmo accommodat, elementa constituit hnmante naturae consentanea : 

 in his semina foueri , et astro, calestia, area, aquatica, lerrestria demonstrat : 

 &c. See also Crollii Basilica Chymica, p. 80 (ed. 1643), and Bacon, 

 Wisd. of the Ancients, ch. 26. [22] Virg. JEn. vi. 747. [25] See Ess. 

 xi. p. 43: And as in nature, things move violently to their place, and 

 calmely in their place : so vertue in ambition is violent, in authoritie 

 setled and calme. In his Promus or Common-place Book, fol. 8 b, 

 Bacon entered, Augustus rapide ad locum leniter in loco. [29] Ovid, 

 Met. i. 518, 521. 



P. 135. [2] are: Added in Errata to ed. 1605. [3] by acts and 

 masterpieces: Lat. virtute sua et functione. [14] the: Omitted in 

 the early editions. [16] mountebank: Montabanke ed. 1605. [20] 

 Virg. JEn. vii. 772. [23] Virg. Jn. vii. n. [28] Eccl. ii. 15. 



