NOTE 3 I. 



so that nothing is finished till all is finished.&quot;* As a specimen, the Essay 

 &quot; Of Study,&quot; in the first edition ends with the words &quot; able to contend.&quot; The 

 edition of 1612 is the same as the former edition, but it thus continues: 

 &quot; Abeunt studia in mores;&quot; &quot; nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, 

 but may be wrought out by fit studies : like as diseases of the body may have 

 appropriate exercises ; bowling is good for the stone and reins, shooting for the 

 lungs and breast, gentle walking for the stomach, riding for the head, and the 

 like ; so if a man s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in 

 demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again ; 

 if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the school 

 men, for they are Cymini sectores ; if he be not apt to beat over matters, and 

 to call upon one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyer s 

 cases ; so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.&quot; 



Fifth Edition, Jaggard, 1612. 



Essaies, Religioiis Meditations, Places ofperswasion and disswasion. Scene and 

 allowed. Printed at London fur John Jaggard, dwelling in Fleete-streete at the 

 Hand and Starve neere Temple barre. 1612. 



This edition may be divided into two parts : 



fl. Of the Essays which were contained in the 



The first part consisting J _ T , ed . ition of . J 6 . 06 . 



j 2. Religious Meditations. 



1^3. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. 



The second part consisting 5 Of S &quot; ch Ess , a &amp;gt;: s *? ^ edition of 1612 as are 

 & ( not inserted in the first part. 



n 



It seems that Jaggard supposed, that because the titles of certain essays 

 the different editions were the same, the essays were not altered ; but it was 

 Lord Bacon s custom, as stated in his letter to Mr. Matthews, with his book 

 &quot; De Sapientia Veterum/ &quot; always to alter when I add, so that nothing is 

 finished till all is finished.&quot; This was the custom of Lord Bacon, a custom 

 most probably ever attendant upon the fertility of genius. Mr. Jaggard, there 

 fore, seems to have imagined that, in substance, his edition was as complete as 

 the edition published in the same year by Lord Bacon. By comparing either of 

 the essays in the edition of 1606 (&quot; Of Studies,&quot; for instance), the error will 

 appear. This edition, therefore, although it consists of 39 Essays (viz. 10 and 

 29), does not contain the perfect essays upon the same subjects which are in 

 the edition published by Lord Bacon in 1612. 



The following table will exhibit the Essays contained in this edition. 



The first part consists of the Essays in the edition of 1606. 



The second part consists of 29 of the essays upon new subjects which are 

 contained in the edition published by Lord Bacon in 1612 ; so that this consists 

 of 39 Essays, but the edition published by Lord Bacon in 1612, although nomi 

 nally containing 40 Essays, really consisted only of 38, the two last in the title 

 page not being inserted in the body of the work. 



* &quot; To Mr. Matthews; along with the Book De Sapientia Veterum. I 

 heartily thank you for your letter of the 24th of August, from Salamanca ; and, 

 in recompence, send you a little work of mine, that has begun to pass the world. 

 They tell me my Latin is turned into silver, and become current. Had you 

 been here, you should have been my inquisitor before it came forth : but I think 

 the greatest inquisitor in Spain will allow it. One thing you must pardon me, 

 if I make no haste to believe, that the world should be grown to such an 

 ecstasy, as to reject truth in philosophy, because the author dissents in religion ; 

 no more than they do by Aristotle or Averroes. My great work goes forward ; 

 and after my manner, I always alter when I add : so that nothing is finished 

 till all is finished. This I have wrote in the midst of a term and parliament; 

 thinking no time so possessed, but that I should talk of these matters with so 

 good and dear a friend. Gray s Inn, Feb. 27, 1610.&quot; 



