1612. Bartholomew-tide. August 24, the anniversary of the massacre of the Huguenots in Paris, 1572.

161:3. musk-rose. Let the student examine the beautiful flower passages in Spenser's Faerie Queene (Book III, Canto VI, Stanza 45) and Milton's Lycidas, noting how many flowers praised by these poets are also mentioned by Bacon.

1615. bent. A coarse pliable grass.

161:17. alleys. Paths; walks. From the French aller. 161 19. For. As for.

1627. covert.

1629. knots.

16212. toys.

suggestion.

Sheltered.

Flower-beds.

Trifles. Note the humour in the following

162: 15. hedge. A bounding fence of shrubs or bushes.

162: 19. entire.

162:26. slope.

163: 4. letting.

let, Act I, Sc. 4:

Continuous.

Sloping.

Hindering. Compare Shakespeare's Ham

"Unhand me, gentlemen!

By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me."

163:11. busy. Involved; intricate. See the next phrase.

163:14. welts. Borders.

163: 22. perfect circles. The at the top of each flight of steps.

alleys' are to be three, one Each alley is to wind around

the hill, and to be wide enough to accommodate four persons walking abreast.

163:24. chimneys. Fireplaces.

163:30. receipt. Receptacle.

164: 22. equality of bores. Pipes corresponding in capacity to the feeding-pipes.

1657. wild thyme. Note, among many flower passages in

Shakespeare, a similar though shorter catalogue, in A Mid.
summer Night's Dream, Act II, Sc. 1:-
:-

"I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows,
Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows;
Quite over-canopied with lush woodbine,

With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine."

165 15. pricked. Planted.

165 20. out of course. Shapelessly; carelessly.

165:28. going wet. Walking in the wet. This is to be avoided by the gravelling of the alleys.

166: 1. would. Ought to.

1664. deceive. Defraud; deprive of their due nourishment. 166:15. rest. Rely; depend.

166:27. platform. Plan.

166:29. some general lines. The outlines.

XLVII. OF NEGOTIATING

(1597. Enlarged, 1612 and 1625)

167:7. mediation. Compare Essay XXVII, page 97, line 25 to page 98, line 11.

167 11. danger. A probability.

:

167:13. a man's face. Compare Essay VI, page 18, lines 3-6.

167 14. tender. Delicate.

167: 18. disavow. Negatively, to clear up misapprehensions. expound. Positively, to push home his argument.

167: 20. plainer sort. Compare Essay XLIV, page 152, lines 21-27.

167:22. success. Result.

167: 24. will help. Will gloss over any unpleasant news, in order to ingratiate themselves with their employer.

167: 25. affect. Like.

168:4. absurd. Dull. See note on page 18, line 15. bear out. Justify.

1688. prescription. First claim.

168:12. men in appetite. Men who seek to acquire or to be advanced.

168:14. start. That is, which of two men entering into an agreement is to perform his part first? The words "A man and "he" refer to the one party to the agreement as opposed

to the other.

Compare Shake

168:21. practice. Diplomatic dealing with men; negotiation, used in a somewhat sinister sense. speare's Hamlet, Act IV, Sc. 7:

"You may choose

A sword unbated, and in a pass of practice
Requite him for your father."

168:22. discover. Uncover; reveal.

168:25. work any man. Compare our colloquial expression. A man worked' is controlled or directed unconsciously to himself.

169: 1. to interpret. In interpreting.

XLVIII. OF FOLLOWERS AND FRIENDS

(1597. Enlarged, 1612 and 1625)

This essay is not without autobiographical value.

Bacon

was never a hard master, and there is documentary evidence in records and letters for the statement that his servants often

took advantage of his liberality.

1697. his train. The metaphor refers to the peacock.

169 10. importune. Importunate.

169 11. challenge. Look for; expect.

169: 17. ill intelligence. Misunderstandings.

169:18. glorious. Vainglorious; boastful.

169:22. export honour, etc. Detract from his reputation

and expose him to envy.

169:24. espials. Spies. See note on page 152, line 25.

170: 1. officious, etc. Faithful in their regular tasks, and as free in reporting to their master as of him.

170:2. estates. Ranks; degrees.

170: 6. civil. Befitting; desirable.

170:7. too much pomp. Compare Essay XIX, page 67, lines 12-15.

170:9. apprehendeth to. Understands how to.

17012. passable. Tolerable; commonplace; as being the more worldly in the inoffensive sense.

170: 14. virtuous. Able.

170 18. in favour. In matters of personal grace and pref

erence.

170:23. hold out, etc. Maintain the exalted standard placed upon him.

170: 24. one. Compare Essay XXVII, page 91, lines 11,

170: 29. them, their. The antecedent is a man.' Note the lack of agreement.

171: 5. little friendship. Compare Essay XXVIL

171: 8. comprehend. Include.

XLIX. OF SUITORS

(1597. Enlarged, 1612 and 1625)

171:13. embrace suits. Undertake to support the suitor

and to advance his interests.

171:16. some other mean. Some person or influence more sincere.

171:23. entertainment. Introduction.

172:5. countenance. Favour.

172:8. depraving. Accusing falsely. Disabling. Decrying. 172 13. referendaries. Referees.

172:14. distasted. Disgusted is the same word. delays. Compare Bacon's suits' for office, and his pathetic words to Fulke Greville: "For to be, as I told you, like a child following a bird, which when he is nearest flieth away and lighteth a little before, and then the child after it again, and so in infinitum, I am weary of it."

172:15. denying. Declining. Note the excessive alliteration in this sentence, showing the influence of euphuism upon even Bacon's somewhat haughty and dignified style.

172:16. success. Result. challenging. Requiring; expecting.

172: 18. gracious. Praiseworthy; deserving of thanks. 172:19. the first coming, etc. A suitor's precedence in point of time ought not to predetermine one in his favour. 172: 20. his trust. That is, the early suitor's.

172:23. note. Information.

172: 24. discovery. Disclosure. The meaning is, that a just man who feels compelled to refuse another's petition will not take advantage of any information given him by the petitioner, to the latter's hurt, but will so act as to be worthy of trust, either by retaining a discreet silence or by encouraging the petitioner to use other means.

172:25. of a suit. Here, the object of a suit. 172:29. voicing.

stage.

Announcing. forwardness. An advanced

173: 1. timing. Pressing at the opportune moment. Intermediary; representative.

173:4. mean.