74:24. Sibylla's offer. An old woman offered Tarquinius Priscus the books of the Sibyl, but he, not understanding their importance, refused to buy them. Thereupon she burned several and increased the price of the remaining books. This process was repeated until Tarquinius was advised by an augur to close the bargain. 74:26. still. Always. 75:21. Argus. Or, Arestorides, was set by Juno to watch Io, whom Jupiter had made an heifer. He had an hundred eyes, which were a closed in sleep by the lyre-playing of Hermes, or Mercury, who then slew him. 75:22. Briareus. See note on page 51, line 8. 75:23. Pluto. Son of Saturn and Ops, and king of the infernal regions. His helmet made the wearer invisible. Compare Homer's Iliad, V, 145. XXII. OF CUNNING (1612. Greatly enlarged, 1625) 76:5. pack the cards. Arrange them unfairly; that is, obtain the initial advantage by means of their cunning. 76:12. practice. Intrigue. Compare our 'sharp practice.' 76:16. "Mitte," etc. 'Send them both naked [without familiar aids] among strangers, and you will see.' 76:21. Jesuits. A celebrated religious order under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church, founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534. It has had large influence in determining both ecclesiastical and political affairs. 76:24. would. Should; ought to. 77:3. secretary. Cecil or Walsingham. Compare Apoph. thegm 84. 77:11. cross. Prevent; interfere with. doubts. Fears. 77:24. Nehemiah. See Neh. ii. 1. 78:1. Narcissus, etc. Narcissus was secretary to the Roman emperor Claudius, whose wife Messalina married Silius, a noble. Narcissus informed the emperor of this fact indirectly, through two women, whose story brought about the examination of Silius. 78:19. apposed. Questioned. Compare, as an excellent illustration of this, Edmund in Shakespeare's King Lear, Act I, Sc. 2. 78:25. two. Supposed to be Sir Robert Cecil and Sir Thomas Bodley. 78:26. kept good quarter. Maintained friendly relations. 79:9. cat. Cate, or cake. 79:17. Tigellinus. Nero's depraved favourite. 79:18. Burrhus. A thoughtful counsellor of Nero, executed by him A.D. 63. "Se non," etc. 'He had no conflicting desires, but looked singly to the safety of the emperor.' 79:23. in guard. As not responsible for direct assertions. 801. how far about they will fetch. How remotely and indirectly they will come to the point.' 6 805. lay him open. Expose his secret thought or attitude. 807. Paul's. St. Paul's Church, a common haunt or meeting-place of citizens. Chaucer tells us of the Wife of Bath in his Prologue to the Canterbury Tales that "Housbondes at chirche dore she hadde fyve," and he praises the Poor Parson because he did not, like many others in orders, run "... to Londoun, unto Seinte Poules, To seken hym a chaunterie for soules, Or with a bretherhed to been withholde." 80: 10. wares. Tricks; habits. Bacon is not sponsor for such habits, though familiar with them. He sees their relative weakness and unimportance. See page 76, line 18. 80: 25. แ "Prudens," etc. "The simple believeth every word : but the prudent man looketh well to his going." (Revised Version.) XXIII. OF WISDOM FOR A MAN'S SELF (1612. Enlarged, 1625) 812. shrewd. Mischievous; troublesome. 818. right earth. Precisely like the earth, around which, thought Bacon, the heavenly bodies revolve. 81 18. crooketh. Bends. 81:19. eccentric. Opposed. 82:4. bias. A charge of lead inserted in the bowl, which deflects it from a straight course. Hamlet, Act II, Sc. 1:— Compare Shakespeare's "And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, 82:11. to roast their eggs. Compare Lamb's essay, A Dis sertation on Roast Pig. 82:23. Cicero. See note on page 57, line 11. Pompey. Or, Cneius Pompeius, who became triumvir with Cæsar and CrasA breach followed, and Pompey was defeated by Cæsar at the battle of Pharsalia. He escaped to Egypt, where he was assassinated B.C. 48. sus. 82 24. "sui amantes," etc. 'Self-lovers without a rival.' Compare Browning's Pippa Passes, first interlude: "The airs of that fellow, that Giovacchino! He was in violent love with himself, and had a fair prospect of thriving in his suit, so unmolested was it, - when suddenly a woman falls in love with him, too; and out of pure jealousy he takes himself off to Trieste, immortal poem and all." XXIV. OF INNOVATIONS 83: 1. births. Offspring. (1625) 837. perverted. The old theology held that there is in man a radical twist' toward evil. 83:12. of course. Naturally; in due course. 83:17. fit. Appropriate to the conditions. 84: 6. pairs. Impairs. holpen. Archaic form of 'helped.' Compare Essay XXIX, page 105, line 19. 84: 13. pretendeth. Uses as its programme, without reference to ultimate motive. 84: 15. suspect. A thing under suspicion. Scripture. See Jer. vi. 16. XXV. OF DISPATCH (1612. Slightly enlarged, 1625) 84:19. Affected. Unduly desired. 84: 25. races. See Eccl. ix. 11. 85:4. for the time. Considering the (shortness of the) time. false periods, etc. Apparently completed transactions; in reality uncompleted. 855. because. In order that. 85 10. a wise man. : Sir Amyas Paulett, whom Bacon as a young man accompanied to France. 8515. hand. Price. 85:19. Spain. Long the characteristic reputation of that country, whose diplomacy has been and is noted for its habit of polite procrastination. 85:27. moderator. Master; examiner. 85:28. actor. The person speaking or examined. 86:8. material. Direct; scorning preparation of the hearers' minds. 86:11. unguent. Ointment 86: 26. pregnant of direction Suggestive of other methods or adjustments than the plan rejected XXV. OF SEEMING WISE (1612 Last sentence added, 1625) 87:8. 66 87:5. Apostle. St. Paul. See 2 Tim. iii. 5. 'magno," etc. Trifles with a great effort.' 87:11. formalists. Petty-minded persons, "seeming wise." prospectives. Glasses, similar to our stereoscope, which induced visional dimension when flat surfaces were examined through them. 87:21. Cicero. See note on page 57, line 11. Piso. A Roman consul. 66 87:24. Respondes," etc. 'You reply, with one eyebrow raised to your forehead and the other lowered to your chin, that you do not like cruelty.' 87:26. bear it Carry it through. 88:2. make good ern colloquialism. 88.7. blanch. ine 12 Gellius. Prove, or confirm. Compare our mod Gloss over; avoid. See note on page 73, Aulus Gellius was a Roman grammarian who |