{11} “So live with yourself that you do not know how ill yow mind is
furnished.”
{12} Αυτοδίδακτος
{14} “A Puritan is a Heretical Hypocrite, in whom the conceit of his own
perspicacity, by which he seems to himself to have observed certain
errors in a few Church dogmas, has disturbed the balance of his mind, so
that, excited vehemently by a sacred fury, he fights frenzied against
civil authority, in the belief that he so pays obedience to God.”
{17a} Night gives counsel.
{17b} Plutarch in Life of Alexander. “Let it not be, O King, that you
know these things better than I.”
{19a} “They were not our lords, but our leaders.”
{19b} “Much of it is left also for those who shall be hereafter.”
{19c} “No art is discovered at once and absolutely.”
{22} With a great belly. Comes de Schortenhien.
{23} “In all things I have a better wit and courage than good fortune.”
{24a} “The rich soil exhausts; but labour itself is an aid.”
{24b} “And the gesticulation is vile.”
{25a} “An end is to be looked for in every man, an animal most prompt to
change.”
{25b} Arts are not shared among heirs.
{31a} “More loquacious than eloquent; words enough, but little
wisdom.”—_Sallust_.
{31b} Repeated in the following Latin. “The best treasure is in that
man’s tongue, and he has mighty thanks, who metes out each thing in a few
words.”—_Hesiod_.
{31c} _Vid._ Zeuxidis pict. Serm. ad Megabizum.—_Plutarch_.
{32a} “While the unlearned is silent he may be accounted wise, for he
has covered by his silence the diseases of his mind.”
{32b} Taciturnity.
{33a} “Hold your tongue above all things, after the example of the
gods.”—_See_ Apuleius.
{33b} “Press down the lip with the finger.”—Juvenal.
{33c} Plautus.
{33d} Trinummus, Act 2, Scen. 4.
{34a} “It was the lodging of calamity.”—Mart. lib. 1, ep. 85.
{41} [“Ficta omnia celeriter tanquam flosculi decidunt, nec simulatum
potest quidquam esse diuturnum.”—Cicero.]
{44a} Let a Punic sponge go with the book.—Mart. 1. iv. epig. 10.
{47a} He had to be repressed.
{49a} A wit-stand.
{49b} Martial. lib. xi. epig. 91. That fall over the rough ways and
high rocks.
{59a} Sir Thomas More. Sir Thomas Wiat. Henry Earl of Surrey. Sir
Thomas Chaloner. Sir Thomas Smith. Sir Thomas Eliot. Bishop Gardiner.
Sir Nicolas Bacon, L.K. Sir Philip Sidney. Master Richard Hooker.
Robert Earl of Essex. Sir Walter Raleigh. Sir Henry Savile. Sir Edwin
Sandys. Sir Thomas Egerton, L.C. Sir Francis Bacon, L.C.
{62a} “Which will secure a long age for the known writer.”—Horat. _de
Art. Poetica_.
{66a} They have poison for their food, even for their dainty.
{74a} Haud infima ars in principe, ubi lenitas, ubi severitas—plus
polleat in commune bonum callere.
{74b} _i.e._, Machiavell.
{81a} “Censure pardons the crows and vexes the doves.”—Juvenal.
{81b} “Does not spread his net for the hawk or the kite.”—Plautus.
{93} Parrhasius. Eupompus. Socrates. Parrhasius. Clito. Polygnotus.
Aglaophon. Zeuxis. Parrhasius. Raphael de Urbino. Mich. Angelo
Buonarotti. Titian. Antony de Correg. Sebast. de Venet. Julio Romano.
Andrea Sartorio.
{94} Plin. lib. 35. c. 2, 5, 6, and 7. Vitruv. lib. 8 and 7.
{95} Horat. in “Arte Poet.”
{106a} Livy, Sallust, Sidney, Donne, Gower, Chaucer, Spenser, Virgil,
Ennius, Homer, Quintilian, Plautus, Terence.
{110a} The interpreter of gods and men.
{111a} Julius Cæsar. Of words, _see_ Hor. “De Art. Poet.;” Quintil. 1.
8, “Ludov. Vives,” pp. 6 and 7.
{111b} A prudent man conveys nothing rashly.
{114a} That jolt as they fall over the rough places and the rocks.
{116a} Directness enlightens, obliquity and circumlocution darken.
{117a} Ocean trembles as if indignant that you quit the land.
{117b} You might believe that the uprooted Cyclades were floating in.
{118a} Those armies of the people of Rome that might break through the
heavens.—Cæsar. Comment. circa fin.
{124a} No one can speak rightly unless he apprehends wisely.
{133a} “Where the discussion of faults is general, no one is injured.”
{133b} “Gnaw tender little ears with biting truth.”—_Per Sat._ 1.
{133c} “The wish for remedy is always truer than the hope.”—_Livius_.
{136a} “Æneas dedicates these arms concerning the conquering
Greeks.”—_Virg. Æn._ lib. 3.
{136b} “You buy everything, Castor; the time will come when you will
sell everything.”—_Martial_, lib. 8, epig. 19.
{136c} “Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor.”
{136d} “Which is evident in every first song.”
{139a} “There is a god within us, and when he is stirred we grow warm;
that spirit comes from heavenly realms.”
{146a} “If it were allowable for immortals to weep for mortals, the
Muses would weep for the poet Nævius; since he is handed to the chamber
of Orcus, they have forgotten how to speak Latin at Rome.”
{148a} “No one has judged poets less happily than he who wrote about
them.”—_Senec. de Brev. Vit_, cap. 13, et epist. 88.
{149a} Heins, de Sat. 265.
{149b} Pag. 267.
{149c} Pag. 270. 271.
{149d} Pag. 273, _et seq._
{149e} Pag. in comm. 153, _et seq._
{160a} “And which jolt as they fall over the rough uneven road and high
rocks.”—_Martial_, lib. xi. epig. 91.