318 NOTES. 



see more then gamesters : and the vale best discovereth the hill. [27] 

 of active matter: i.e. concerning subjects of active life. [29] The story 

 is told by Cicero, De Orat. ii. 18. 75. 



P. 199. [4] The Basilicon Doron, written by King James for the in 

 struction of his eldest son, Prince Henry, and published in 1603. It is 

 in three books : the first, Of a kings Christian dutie towards God ; 

 the second, Of a kings dutie in his office; and the third, Of a kings 

 behaviour in indifferent things. [9] not sick of dizziness: Lat. non 

 vertigine aliquando corripitur. The edition of 1605 has Dusinesse/ 

 which is corrupted to Businesse in the editions of 1629 and 1633. 

 [i l] nor of convulsions . . impertinent : Lat. non digressionibus distrahitur, 

 ut ilia qucB nihil ad rhombum sunt expatiatione aliqua flexuosa complectatur. 

 [23] a great cause of judicature: Mr. Spedding says, Probably in the 

 case of Sir Francis Goodwin, in 1604, when the question was whether it 

 belonged to the House of Commons or the Court of Chancery to judge 

 of the validity of an election. [28] The title of this work of king James 

 is The True Lawe of Free Monarchies, or the reciprock and mutuall 

 dutie betwixt a free king, and his naturall subiects. It was first 

 published anonymously in 1603, and was afterwards included in the 

 collected edition of the king s works published in 1616. 



P. 200. [10] In the De Augm. Bacon quotes the example of Pliny the 

 younger in his panegyric on Trajan. [14] part: partie in ed. 1605, 

 corrected in Errata. [25] Prov. xiv. 6. [30] Comp, Shakespeare, Cym 

 beline, ii. 4. 107 : 



It is a basilisk unto mine eye, 

 Kills me to look on t. 



[32] which., they leese: Another example of the redundance of the 

 pronoun. See note on p. 21, 1. 26. 



P. 201. [2-17] Comp. Bacon, Meditationes Sacrse, 3. [16] Prov. 

 xviii. 2, quoted from the Vulgate. [18] for construction, see p. 52, 1. 9. 

 [30] Lucius Brutus: See Livy, bk. ii. 5. [33] Virg. JEn. vi. 823 ; jacta 

 for fata is the true reading, but the latter is also found in the De Aug- 

 mentis. 



P. 202. [2] This discussion is related by Plutarch, Brutus, xii. 2. [n] 

 Comp. Shakespeare, Mer. of Ven. iv. i. 216: 



* To do a great right, do a little wrong. 



[12] Plutarch, De Sanitate Prsecepta, 24; Prsecepta Gerund. Reip. 24; 

 Bacon, Apoph. 138. [20] De Augm. vii. 3. [26] Aristotle, Magn. 

 Mor. i. i. 



P. 203. [3] Cicero, Pro Mursena, 30. 62. [6] Seneca, Ep. 71. 2. 

 [9] Hippocrates, Aphorism, ii. 6. [13, 14] Lat. attamen philosophiam 

 moralem in famulitium tkeologta recipi instar ancilla prudentis et pedissequce 



