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referred to (Disc, sopra Liv. ii. 10). Nervos belli pecuniam infinitam; 

 Cicero, Phil. v. a. 5. In Diog. Laert. iv. 48, TOV -nkovrov v f vpa npaynd- 

 TWV is quoted as a saying of Bion s. See also Plutarch, Cleom. 27. 

 [6] Lucian, Charon, 10-12. [13] In the third place: the is omitted 

 in edd. 1605, 1629. [14, 15] Compare Shakespeare, Julius Czesar, 

 iv. 3. 218-221. [16] it being extreme hard to play an after game 

 of reputation : Lat. Ardua enim res, Jamam pr&amp;lt;Ecipiiantem retrovertere. 

 [26] Virgil, Eel. ix. 66. [29] Virgil, Georg. iii. 284. 



P. 244. [i] fortune: So in ed. 1605; fortunes in edd. 1629, 1633. 

 [5] Comp. pp. an, 213. [6, 7] and bend not . . . intendeth : Omitted 

 in the Latin. [17-19] So that he should exact ... and not to stand 

 Sec. : This mixed construction is of very common occurrence. It 

 should be, of course, either So that he should exact . . . and not stand 

 &c., or So that he ought to exact . . . and not to stand &c. See note 

 on p. 88, 11. 7-9. [18] an account: So in ed. 1605 ; an is omitted in 

 edd. 1629, 1633. [26] Matt, xxiii. 23; Luke xi. 42. [30] p. 245. 

 [2] Omitted in the Latin. The story is told again in the Colours 

 of Good and Evil, 4. 



p - 2 45- [5] Aristotle, Rhet. ii. 13. 4; Cicero, De Amic. 16. 

 Bacon, Apoph. 182. [8] troublesome spleens: Lat. molestis et turbidis 

 odiis. [26] The allusion is probably to Macchiavelli s Principe, and 

 to the Cortigiano of Castiglione.* (Ellis.) 



P. 246. [4] Machiavelli, II Principe, 17, 18. [12] Cic. Pro Rege 

 Deiot. ix. 25: Pereant amid, &c. [16] Pope Alexander ... was 

 desirous to trouble the waters in Italy, that he might fish the better. 

 Hist, of Hen. VII. (Works, vi. 113). [17] Cic. Pro Mur. xxv. 51. 

 [19] Plutarch, Lys. 8. [25] Bacon had entered this maxim in his 

 Promus or Commonplace book, In actions as in wayes the ncerest 

 V fowlest (Works, vii. 209). [31] Eccl. ii. n. 



P- 2 47- [5] Vir g- ^ n - . 252. [8] The Latin quotes Cic. Ep. ad 

 Att. ix. 12, Atque eum ulciscentur mores sni. [n] Job xv. 35. [20] 

 Hor. Sat. ii. 2. 79. [23] Aurelius Victor, Epit. i. 28. [24] Spartfanus, 

 Vit. Sept. Sev. c. 18; Bacon, Apoph. 98. [33] Charles V., after 

 raising the siege of Metz, is reported to have said, Fortune, I now 

 perceive, resembles other females, and chooses to confer her favours 

 on young men, while she turns her back on those who are advanced 

 in years. Robertson, Charles V. ch. ix. 



P. 248. [6] Matt. vi. 33. [10] sands: same* in cd. 1605, corrected 

 in Errata and edd. 1629, 1633. Mr. Speckling reads sand. The 

 reference of course is to Matt. vii. 24, 27. [n] The dying exclamation 

 of Brutus, according to Dio Cassius, xlvii. 49. The Latin is a trans 

 lation of part of two Greek iambics : 



u T\rjnov aptTfj \uyos ap IjffO , iyw 8e at 

 wt tpyov TJOKOVV, av 5 op i5ov\(v(t 



