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122:19. commiserable. Unfortunate; miserable.

XXXIV. OF RICHES

(1612. Much enlarged, 1625)

122:22. "impedimenta." 'Baggage.'

123: 1. conceit. Fancy; illusion.

1232. Solomon. See Eccl. v. 11.

123: 5. to feel great riches. After sufficient wealth has been secured to satisfy every personal desire, additional income will not be 'felt' as affecting one's individual good.

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123: 13. Solomon. See Prov. xviii. 11.

123: 18. proud riches. Wealth for wealth's sake. 123: 21. Cicero. See note on page 57, line 11.

123: 22. Rabirius Posthumas. Defended by Cicero when accused by the Tribune Labienus of complicity in the killing of Saturninus. "in studio,' 99 etc. 'In the endeavour to increase his estate it was manifest that he sought not the spoil of avarice, but a means of beneficence.'

123:25. Solomon. See Prov. xxviii. 20.

123:26. " 'Qui festinat,” etc.

rich shall not be unpunished.'

'He that maketh haste to be

123:27. Plutus. The god of riches, son of Jason and Ceres. 123:28. Jupiter. See note on page 51, line 7.

123: 29. Pluto.

See note on page 75, line 23.

124:7. upon speed. Compare Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, Act III, Sc. 2:

"... Pluto, the god of riches,

When he's sent by Jupiter to any man,

He goes limping, to signify that wealth

That comes on God's name comes slowly; but when he's sent
On the devil's errand, he rides post and comes in by scuttles."
In our day false syn-

124:17. greatest audits of any man.
tax. Why? Give the correct form.
124:24. stock, etc.
opportunities of gain.
Book I, Chapter XII:

As a man's resources increase, so do his Compare George Eliot's Middlemarch, "Ay, ay; money's a good egg; and if

you've got money to leave behind you, lay it in a warm nest." 124:26. overcome. Secure; command.

124:29. mainly. Greatly.

125: 5. broke. Deal; negotiate.

125:7. chapmen. Buyers.

125:8. naught. Naughty; bad.

125:11. upon the seller and upon the buyer. The original seller and the final buyer, the 'middleman' profiting by both. 125:13. Usury. See Essay XLI.

125:15. "in sudore,' etc. 'In the sweat of another's brow.'

125:17. scriveners and brokers. Financial agents.

125 18. value. Recommend as good risks.

125:19. invention. Discovery.

125:22. Canaries. The sugar trade in the Canaries took its rise in 1507.

125:23. the true logician. In Book II of The Advancement of Learning, Bacon asserts that "The arts intellectual are four in number; divided according to the ends whereunto they are referred: for man's labour is to invent that which is sought or propounded or to judge that which is invented: or to retain that which is judged or to deliver over that which is retained." 125:28. guard, etc. Protect one's self in speculative enterprises by investing enough in a conservative, legitimate way to offset any possible loss.

125:30. coemption. Buying up.

1268. Tacitus. See note on page 5, line 27. Seneca. See note on page 5, line 16.

126: 9. "Testamenta," etc. He landed wills and wardships as though taken with nets.' See the Annals, XII, 42. 126: 14. none worse. Than these affected scorners of wealth. 126:15. riches have wings. Compare Prov. xxiii. 5. Note the humorous turn that follows.

126: 22. the better, etc. Stronger in will and judgment on account of his wealth.

Ostentatious; vainglorious.

126: 23. glorious.

126: 26. advancements. Gifts.

126:27. frame them by measure.

Bestow them equitably.

126: 28. till death. Note Mr. Andrew Carnegie as an interesting contemporary example of the rich man who makes benefaction a business of life rather than of death. away (up to August, 1905) about $115,000,000.

XXXV. OF PROPHECIES

(1625)

He has given

127:2. natural predictions. Those made in accordance with a knowledge of the laws of nature. Compare the moon's phases, eclipses, etc.

127:4. Pythonissa. Apollo, giver of oracles, was called the Pythian. Pythonissa, accordingly, refers to a prophetess. See the narrative in 1 Sam. xxviii. 7-25.

127:6. Homer. Greatest of Greek poets, supposed to have been born in Smyrna and to have died on the island of Ios. Herodotus gives B.C. 850 as representing the time in which he lived, but later and earlier dates are given. The Iliad and Odyssey, attributed to him, may have become welded into a composite after passing through many transitional stages, in

which case the authorship would be multiform.

Whether

Homer actually existed or not, it seems probable that some one great poet is responsible for the core of the Iliad. The lines quoted are from Vergil's Eneid, III, 97, transcribed from the Iliad, XX, 307, 308.

127:7. At domus," etc.

'But now the house of Eneas shall reign over every shore, and his children's children, and whosoever shall succeed them.'

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127 10. Seneca. See note on page 5, line 16. The passage is quoted from the Medea, II, 374-378.

127: 11. "Venient annis," etc. เ In far-distant years shall come the ages when ocean shall loose the bands of the world, and the vast globe shall be discovered, and Tiphys shall show new worlds; nor shall Thule be the end of the earth.' Tiphys was a mythological pilot.

127 18. Polycrates. Tyrant of Samos, B.C. 536-522. He was a patron of the arts, and is said by Herodotus to have had the most persistent good fortune, exposing him to the envy of the gods. Jupiter. See note on page 51, line 7.

127:19. Apollo. See note on page 55, line 26.

127:24. Aristander. A famous soothsayer under Alexander the Great.

127:27. phantasm. See Shakespeare's Julius Cæsar, Act IV, Sc. 3. Brutus. See note on page 91, line 20.

128: 1. Philippi.'

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'Philippis," etc. Thou shalt see me again at Brutus and Cassius were defeated by Antony and Octavius at Philippi, and Brutus destroyed himself.

1282. Tiberius. See note on page 5, line 26. Galba. See note on page 5, line 30. "Tu quoque," 99 etc. 'Thou also,

Galba, shalt taste of empire.'

Tacitus' Annals, VI, 20.

128: 3. Vespasian's. See note on page 5, line 28.

1287. Tacitus. See note on page 5, line 27. Domitian

See note on page 63, line 13.

128:11. Henry VI. See Shakespeare's Henry VI., Part III, Act IV, Sc. 6.

128:21. slain. Henry II. of France lost his life through an accident at a tournament in 1559.

128: 22. beaver. The lower portion of the armoured headgear worn in medieval times. Compare Shakespeare's Henry IV., Part II, Act IV, Sc. 1:

"Their armed staves in charge, their beavers down,

Their eyes of fire sparkling through sights of steel."

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129:8. the Baugh and the May. Mr. Wright says:

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Daniel has suggested to me that the 'Baugh' is probably the Bass rock; and the May' the Isle of May, in the Frith of Forth."

129:16. Regiomontanus.

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Johannes Müller. The name means Royal mount,' and corresponds, therefore, to Königsberg (King's hill), where Müller was born. The prediction was made in 1475.

129: 17. 66

Octogesimus," etc. The eighty-eighth year shall

be marvellous.'

129:21. Cleon's. Cleon was an Athenian popular leader of the fifth century B.C. He fought the Spartans successfully at Pylos, 425, but was defeated and slain by Brasidas at Amphipolis. He is ridiculed by Aristophanes in The Knights and elsewhere.

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130:7. when they hit. Compare The Advancement of Learning, Book II: "For this purpose, let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by the general nature of the mind, beholding them in an example of two;

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