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command the end, and yet not to endure the meane. [9] Tacitus, 

 Hist. i. 50; quoted again in Essay xi. p. 42. [n] Pindar, Olym. i. 55. 

 of Tantalus : /carairtyai plyav o\&ov OVK eSwdaOrj. [14] Ps. Ixii. IO. 

 [17] Arist. Rhet. ii. 12-17. C 2 ^] ^ * s * n order: i.e. the order is. 



P. 208. [i] politiques: in politiques, ed. 1605, corrected in Errata 

 and in edd. 1629, 1633. [2] Solon, Fr. i. 8 (ed. Gaisford), referring to 

 Pisistratus. See Bacon s Apoph. 232, and Cicero, Pro Cluentio, 49. 

 Solon s lines are : 



*E avfJL(av 5t OdXaaaa rapaoatTai, fy 54 ns avrr^v 



Mr; Kivrj TTO.VTOJV cffrl Si.KaioTa.Tr). 

 AvSpwv 5 l/f fj.cyd\(av TTO\IS 6 AA.VTCtt K. r. \. 



[i 2] affections, which is, &c. : for which are, &c. in modern usage. It 

 is not necessary to suppose that this is a mistake of Bacon s. The sub 

 stantive verb is frequently found to agree with the subject which follows 

 it, as in Chaucer (Cant. Tales, 1. 14625), Peter! it am I. See also 

 p. 226, 1. 22, and Shakespeare, Rich. II. v. 5. 55, 56: 



Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is 



Are clamorous groans. 



[13] Aristotle, Rhet. ii. i-n. Comp. Eth. Nic. ii. 4. i. [19] For the 

 repetition of the negative see note on p. 142, 1. 23. [29] Plutarch and 

 Seneca wrote on Anger, and Plutarch has treatises of comfort upon 

 adverse accidents (addressed to his wife and to Apollonius), and of 

 tenderness of countenance (irfpl Svaam ias) or bashfulness. Seneca too 

 has a dialogue de Consolatione. [30] of comfort upon adverse accidents : 

 Omitted in Lat. 



P. 209. [2] and how again contained from act and further degree: 

 i.e. how restrained from leading to actions and reaching a greater 

 height. [4] how they gather and fortify: Omitted in the Latin. [13] 

 prcemium and pcena : The doctrine of rewards and punishments is familiar 

 to the readers of Butler s Analogy. [25] these as they have determinate 

 use in moralities : Lat. h&c enim sunt ilia quce regnant in moraltbus. 

 From which Mr. Spedding conjectures we should read these are they 

 &c. [27] described: Perhaps we should read prescribed. [28] serve: 

 seeme in ed. 1605, corrected in Errata. [30] insist: visit in ed. 

 1605, corrected in Errata and in edd. 1629, 1633. 



P. 210. [i] Aristotle, Eth. Nic. ii. i. 2. [22] as there is: We should 

 now say, as there are, but Bacon uses there is like the Fr. il y a. 

 [26] diffident: different in ed. 1605, corrected in Errata and in edd. 

 1629, 1633. L 2 9] m tne en ^ : on tne en d * n et ^- 1 65&amp;gt; corrected in 

 Errata. 



P. 211. [3] the knots and stonds of the mind: Lat. nodos obicesqne 

 animi. [4] the more easy: the more easily in ed. 1605, corrected in 

 Errata and edd. of 1629, 1633. Mr. Spedding says, Possibly Bacon 



