GLOSSARY. 



Spinosity, sb. Thorniness: p. 148, 1. 26. 



Spleen, sb. Ill humour, anger ; of which the spleen was believed to be 



the seat : p. 245, 1. 8. 



If she must teem, 



Create her child of spleen ; that it may live, 

 And be a thwart disnatured torment to her. 



Shakespeare, K. Lear, i. 4. 304. 



See also the quotation under Arroganey. 

 Stand, v. i. To stand firm, keep one s position: p. 23, 1. 31 ; p. 36, 1. 32. 



See Eph. vi. 13. To stop : p. 210, 1. 8. 

 Stand with. To be consistent with : p. 112, 1. II. It is true, speedie 



profit is not to be neglected, as farre as may stand, with the good of 



the plantation, but no further. Essay xxxiii. p. 139. 

 State, sb. Original condition: p. 27, 1. 26 ; p. 195, 1. 6. Estate: p 149, 



1. 26. Certainly who hath a state to repaire, may not despise small 



things. Essay xxviii. p. 117. Stability : p. 193, 1. 23. In the favours 



of others or the good windes of fortune we have no state or certainty. 



Colours of Good and Evil, p. 262. 

 Station, sb. A standing-place: p. 119, 1. 17. 



Statua, sb. Statue: p. 72, 1. 21; p. 85, 1. 29; p. 202, 1. 24; p. 241, 1. 9. 

 Even at the base of Pompey s statua. 



Shakespeare, Jul. Caes. iii. i. 192. 

 Stay, sb. A standstill: p. 37, 1. 2. He that standeth^ at a stay, when 



others rise, can hardly avoid motions of envy. Essay xiv. p. 52. 

 Stay, v. i. To stand still, rest: p. 119, 1. 5. To dwell : p. 233, 1. 26. 

 Still, adv. Constantly : p. 39, 1. 16 ; p. 69, 1. II ; p. 72, 1. 28. 

 Thou call dst me up at midnight to fetch dew 

 From the s/z//-vex d Bermoothes. 



Shakespeare, Tempest, i. 2. 229. 

 Stond, s6. An impediment, hindrance: p. 211, 1. 3. The removing of 



the stands and impediments of the mind doth often clear the passage and 



current of a man s fortune. Bacon, Disc, touching Helps for the Intell. 



Powers (Works, vii. 99). See also Essay xl. p. 165. 

 Stood upon. Insisted upon: p. 8, 1. 30; p. 174, 1. 28. But it is so 



plaine, that every man profiteth in that hee most intendeth, that it needeth 



not be stood upon. Essay xxix. p. l?6. 



Story, sb. History : p. 86, 1. 4; p. 90, 1. 32. See 2 Chr. xiii. 22. 

 Strait, adj. Tight: p. 210, 1. 10; p. 219, 1. 13. ^ 

 Straitly, adv. Strictly : p. 43, 1. 3. See Gen. xliii. 7. 

 Stroke. Struck; the preterite of strike : p. 150, 11. 32, 33. 

 Stupid. Reduced to stupid = rendered stupid : p. 216, 1. 33. Compare 



leaveth it for suspect, p. 8 1, 1. 12. 



Style, sb. Title or formula, designation : p. 44, 1. 33 ; p. 57, 1. 27. 

 Style, sb. The pen of the ancient Greeks and Romans, one end of 



which was pointed for the purpose of writing on the wax tablets; 



the other broad and flat to erase what had been written. Hence the 



Latin phrase vertere stylum, to turn the style, = to erase, and this is 



imitated by Bacon, p. 61, 1. 23. 

 Styled. See note on p. 101, 1. 19. Perhaps we should read may be so 



styled. 



