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the Cogitata et Visa (Works, iii. 614). Acosta, in his Natural Hist, of 

 the Indies, describes the^mode of obtaining fire by rubbing two sticks 

 together (Bk. iii. ch. 2). In the English translation of this book (p. 1 19, 

 ed. 1604) there is a misprint of stones for sticks, the manner to 

 strike fire in rubbing two stones one against another, where the Spanish 

 has palos. [5] to a wild goat for surgery : See the passage quoted on 

 the previous page from Virgil. [6] the ibis : The like device to this, 

 namely of clystres, we learned first of a foule in the same /Egypt, which 

 is called Ibis (or the blacke Storke). Holland s Pliny, viii. 27 (ed. 1601). 

 This and the previous illustration are both mentioned by Montaigne, 

 Ess. ii. 12. [7] the pot-lid that flew open for artillery : Of the discovery 

 of guns we read, in the English translation of Pancirolli Rerum Mira- 

 hilium Libri Duo (Lond. 1785, p. 384), All Histories do agree in this, 

 that a German was Author of this Invention, but whether his Name be 

 known, or whether he was a Monk of Friburg, Constantine Ancklitzen, 

 or Bertholdus Swartz (as some call him) a Monastick too, is not so very 

 certain. Tis said he was a Chymist, who sometimes for Medicines kept 

 Powder of Sulphur in a Mortar, which he covered with a Stone. But it 

 happened one Day as he was striking Fire, that a Spark accidentally 

 falling into it, brake out into a Flame, and heav d up the Stone. The 

 Man being instructed by this Contingency, and having made an Iron 

 Pipe or Tube together with Powder, is said to have invented this 

 Engine/ The story is found in Polydore Vergil (De Inventoribus 

 Rerum, ii. u). [8] Comp. Agatho, quoted by Arist. Eth. Nic. vi. 4: 



TtXVT) TVXTJV tffTp KO.I T\&amp;gt;Xq T X VT)V. [ii] Virg. GeOrg. 1. 133. [14] 



do put in ure: i.e. do use. [17] Cic. Pro Balbo, 20: Assiduus usus uni 

 rei deditus et ingenium et arlem scepe vincit. [20] Virg. Georg. i. 145 : 

 vicit in the original. [22] Persius, Prol. 8: Quis expedivit Psittaco wum 

 Xafpe. [23] See Holland s Pliny, x. 43. [24] pebbles: pibbles in 

 ed. 1605 ; as in Shakespeare, Coriolanus, v. 3. 56, the first folio has, 



Then let the Pibbles on the hungry beach 

 Fillop the Starres. 



[28] Looke what seeds or graines they do lay up for provision, sure 

 they will be to gnaw it first, for feare they should sprout and take loot 

 again and so grow out of the earth. Holland s Pliny, xi. 30. The 

 supposed grains of corn are no doubt the nymphce. Huber repeatedly 

 observed ants in the act of tearing the integument in which the young 

 ant was enclosed, in order to facilitate its exit. Ellis s note on De 

 Augm. v. 2, p. 619. This again is mentioned by Montaigne, Ess. ii. 12. 

 P. 152. [i] See p. 150, 1. 26. [5] Nothing is said of Plato in the 

 tmnslation. [14] Virg. Georg. iv. i. [21] for who can assure: Lat. 

 quis enim in se recipiet. [23] not other: any other in some copies of 

 ed. 1605. [24] i Sam. xvi. [25] Issay: So in the edd. of 1605, 



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