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NOTES. 



except that on p. 224, 1. I, are from the Vulgate, which will be found 

 in many cases to differ materially from the English Version. [4] 

 Eccl. vii. 21. [6] commended: concluded in ed. 1605, corrected 

 in Errata. [8] Plutarch, Pomp. 20; Sert. 27. [10] Prov. xxix. 9. 

 [17] Prov. xxix. 21. [21] Prov. xxii. 29. [26] Eccl. iv. 15. [28] 

 Plutarch, Pomp. xiv. 2 ; Tacitus, Ann. vi. 46. Quoted again in Essay 

 xxvii. p. 108 : For when he had carried the consulship for a frend 

 of his, against the pursuit of Sylla, and that Sylla did a little resent 

 thereat, and began to speake great, Pompey turned upon him againe, 

 and in effect bad him be quiet ; For that more men adored the sunne 

 rising, then the sunne setting. [31] Eccl. x. 4. 



P. 222. [4] Eccl. ix. 14, 15. [Ib.] et panel: et is omitted in ed. 

 1605. [5] vallavit: the true reading, but vadavit is in the old editions 

 and in the De Augmentis. [9] corruption: So in edd. 1629, 1633: 

 corruptions in ed. 1605. [u] Prov. xv. I. [14] Prov. xv. 19. 

 [16] deferred: differred in ed. 1605. [19] Eccl. vii. 8. [20] about 

 prefaces and inducements: Lat. de sermonum stiorum aditu atque in- 

 gressu. [23] Prov. xxviii. 21. [25] Compare Essay xi. p. 42: As 

 for facilitie; it is worse then bribery. For bribes come but now 

 and then ; but if importunitie, or idle respects lead a man, he shall 

 never be without. As Salomon saith ; To respect persons, is not good ; 

 for such a man will transgresse for a peece of bread. [26] lightly : so 

 in ed. 1605; highly in edd. 1629, 1633. [28] Prov. xxviii. 3. [32] 

 Prov. xxv. 26. Comp. Essay Ivi. p. 222: One foule sentence doth 

 more hurt, then many foule examples. For these doe but corrupt 

 the streame ; the other corrupteth the fountaine. 



P. 223. [4] Prov. xxviii. 24. Omitted in the Latin. [10] Prov. 

 xxii. 24. [15] Prov. xi. 29. [20] Prov. x. I ; quoted again in Essay 

 vii. p. 24. [25] Prov. xvii. 9. [30] Prov. xiv. 23. [32] aboundeth: 

 So in ed. 1605. Compare Shakespeare, Rich. II. ii. i. 258: 



Reproach and dissolution hangeth over him. 



P. 224. [i] Prov. xviii. 17. [3] in sort: So in ed. 1605; in such 

 sort, edd. 1629, 1633. [6] Prov. xviii. 8. Omitted in the Latin. [7] 

 Here: there in edd. 1605, 1629, 1633. [n] Prov. ix. 7. [Ib.] 

 sibi: f tibi in some copies of ed. 1605. [12] general: gerit in ed. 

 1605, corrected in Errata. [16] Prov. ix. 9. [21] Prov. xxvii. 19. 

 [26] Ovid, De Art. Am. i. 760. [29] p. 225. [7] led with a desire . . . 

 examples : The Latin has only, dignitate et rei ipsius et authoris longius 

 provecti. 



P. 225. [3] more of the eagle: In Mr. Ellis s copy of Montagu s ed. 

 of Bacon I find the following MS. note : More of the eagle that is, 

 more of a mystical and recondite character. The allusion is to the 

 eagle as the symbol of S. John, and to the character of his gospel. 



