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fidelis, qua ad omnes ejus nutus prasto sit et ministref, quid prohibeatl [15] 

 Ps. cxxiii. 2. [20] as it may yield of herself: Observe that the neuter 

 reflexive pronoun itself had not come generally into use. [24] 204. 

 [2] the rather . . extant : Instead of this the Latin has only, Earn igitur, 

 ex more nostro, cum inter desiderata collocemus, aliqna ex parte adum- 

 brabimus. 



P. 204. [7] the husbandman cano/ command, neither, &c. : Observe 

 the double negative, as in Shakespeare, Mer. of Ven. iii. 4. 1 1 : 



I never did repent for doing good, 

 Nor shall not now. 



[n] without our command: i.e. beyond our control. [12-26] Fbr to 

 the basis .. apply : Altered in the Latin. [16] Virg. JEn. v. 710, 

 Superanda omnis fortuna ferendo est. [23] properly: property in 

 ed. 1605, corrected to properly in the Errata and in ed. 1629. 



P. 205. [2-31] wherein .. malignity: Omitted in the Latin. [6] Aris 

 totle, Eth. Nic. iv. 7. [10] to few: Mr. Spedding conjectures that we 

 should read to intend few. [18] Virg. JEn. i. 22. [20] See Ex. xxxiv. 

 5. [21] Aristotle, Eth. Nic. iv. 6. [30] properly: This is the reading 

 of edd. 1605, 1629, 1633, but Mr. Spedding alters it to property, as in 

 p. 204, 1. 23. 



P. 206. [2] Lat. cum utrique scientia clarissimum luminis jubar affundere 

 possit. [6] These different dispositions are arranged according to the 

 planets which are supposed to predominate over them : Saturn, Jupiter, 

 Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, and the Moon. Comp. p. 43: Saturn, 

 the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil 

 society and action/ [6] Compare Bacon s Letter to Lord Burghley 

 (Life and Letters, i. 108) : not as a man born under Sol, that loveth 

 honour ; nor under Jupiter, that loveth business (for the contemplative 

 planet carrieth me away wholly). [8-23] A man shall find ..use of 

 life : This is entirely omitted in the Latin, and another paragraph sub 

 stituted which is partly made up of a sentence previously omitted (p. 203, 

 11. 24-28), and of a passage of some length in which Bacon points to 

 the wiser historians as the source, from which to gather materials for 

 this treatise on the several characters of natures and dispositions. [9] 

 For some of these relations see Ranke s History of the Popes, App. 

 5 6 (trans. Foster). [16] is: as in edd. 1605, 1629, 1633. [21] 

 posies : poesies is the spelling of ed. 1605. [26] by the region : Lat. 

 patria. [32] Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, iii. i. 40. 



P. 207. [4] Tit. i. 12, 13, quoting from Epimenides. [6] Sallust, 

 Bell. Jug. 113. This is quoted again in Essay xix. p. 77, and there 

 attributed to Tacitus : For it is common with princes, (saith Tacitus) 

 to will contradictories. Sunt plerumque reguni voluntates vehementes, 

 & inter se contraries. For it is the solsecisme of power, to thinke to 



