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As is known, the four beasts in Ezechiel are taken by S. Jerome to 

 typify the 4 evangelists. [6] deducements: diducements in ed. 1(05. 

 [13] for fables: Lat. quod ad Jabulas. [17] of negotiation and 

 occasions: Lat. de negotiis et occa^ionibus sparsis. [18] See p. 97. 

 [28] may: manye* in ed. 1605, corrected to may in the Errata. 

 Some copies of ed. 1605 have maye. [30] action: gaine in ed. 

 1605, corrected in Errata and edd. 1629, 1633. Mr. Spedding con 

 jectures aime. 



P. 226. [3] histories: So all the old editions. We should probably 

 read history. [5] because it is: The edd. of 1605, 1629, 1633 have 

 simply is. The reading of the text is from the Errata to ed. 1605. 

 Mr. Markby mends the passage thus : so history of lives is the most 

 proper for discourse of business, for discourse of business is more con 

 versant in private actions. Mr. Spedding prints, so histories of Lives 

 is the most proper for discourse of business, as more conversant in 

 private actions. In the text of ed. 1605 the passage stands thus: 

 4 so Histories of Liues is the moste proper for discourse of businesse 

 is more conversante in priuate actions. [9] great: Mr. Spedding 

 conjectures nearer. Perhaps greater may be the true reading, ed. 

 1605 having greate. The Latin is, epistola- magis in proximo et ad 

 vivum negotia solent repraesentare. [12] of this part of civil knowledge, 

 touching negotiation : Lat. portionis prima doctrine de negotiis, qua tractat 

 occasiones sparsas. [14, &c.] Read with this passage Essay xxiii., Of 

 Wisedome for a Mans Selfe. [22] like ants, which is &c. : For the 

 construction compare 1. 4 above, and p. 208, 1. 12. Perhaps we should 

 read like an ant, which is &c. Comp. Ess. xxiii. p. 96: An ant 

 is a wise creature for it selfe : but it is a shrewd thing, in arf orchard, 

 or garden. [24] Plautus, Trinummus, ii. 2. 82. [26] This proverb 

 is usually ascribed to Appius Claudius. See the treatise De Republ. 

 Odin. i. i, formerly attributed to Sallust. Both this and the following 

 quotation are repeated in Essay xl. Of Fortune. [27] Livy xxxix. 40. 

 [30] Read with this paragraph Essay xl. 



P. 227. [3] Plutarch, Sylla, vi. 5. [7] E/ek. xxix. 3. [8] I lab. i. 

 jg. [IQ] The Latin adds de contemptore Deum Mezentio. [ii] Virg. 

 JEn. x. 773. [Ib.] missile: inutile in ed. 1605, but corrected in 

 Errata. [12] The Latin adds another story of Julius Caesar from 

 his life by Suetonius, c. 77. [16] Plutarch, Sylla, vi. 5. [18] Plutarch. 

 Ccesar, c. 38. [19] positions: I^t sententice. [20] Sapiens dominabitur 

 astris: Mr. Ellis says, This sentence is ascribed to Ptolemy by 

 Cognatus. Compare Albumazar, i. 7 : 



Indeed, th* ^Egyptian Ptolomy the wise 



Pronounc d it as an oracle of truth, sapiens dominabitur astris. 

 [Ib.] Invia virtuti &c. : Ovid, Met. xiv. 113. [29] Suetonius, Octav. 

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