CHAPTER XV.

Appendix.

The facsimile shewn in Plate 41, Page 176, is from "The Attourney's

Academy," 1630. The reader will perceive that the ornamental heading is

printed upside down. In the ordinary copies it is not so printed, but

only in special copies such as that possessed by the writer; the object

of the upside-down printing being, as we have already pointed out in

previous pages, to reveal, to those deemed worthy of receiving it, some

secret concerning Bacon.

In the present work, while we have used our utmost endeavour to place

in the vacant frame, the true portrait of him who was the wonder and

mystery of his own age and indeed of all ages, we have never failed to

remember the instructions given to us in "King Lear":--

"Have more than thou showest,

Speak less than thou knowest."

Our object has been to supply exact and positive information and to

confirm it by proofs so accurate and so certain as to compel belief and

render any effective criticism an impossibility.

It may however not be without advantage to those who are becoming

convinced against their will, if we place before them a few of the

utterances of men of the greatest distinction who, without being

furnished with the information which we have been able to afford to our

readers, were possessed of sufficient intelligence and common sense to

perceive the truth respecting the real authorship of the Plays.

LORD PALMERSTON, b. 1784, d. 1865.

Viscount Palmerston, the great British statesman, used to say that he

rejoiced to have lived to see three things--the re-integration of Italy,

the unveiling of the mystery of China and Japan, and the explosion of

the Shakespearian illusions.--_From the Diary of the Right Hon.

Mount-Stewart E. Grant_.

LORD HOUGHTON, b. 1809, d. 1885.

Lord Houghton (better known as a statesman under the name of Richard

Monckton Milnes) reported the words of Lord Palmerston, and he also told

Dr. Appleton Morgan that he himself no longer considered Shakespeare,

the actor, as the author of the Plays.

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, b. 1772, d. 1834.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the eminent British critic and poet, although

he assumed that Shakespeare was the author of the Plays, rejected the

facts of his life and character, and says: "Ask your own hearts, ask

your own common sense, to conceive the possibility of the author of the

Plays being the anomalous, the wild, the irregular genius of our daily

criticism. What! are we to have miracles in sport? Does God choose

idiots by whom to convey divine truths to man?"

JOHN BRIGHT, b. 1811, d. 1889.

John Bright, the eminent British statesman, declared: "Any man that

believes that William Shakespeare of Stratford wrote Hamlet or Lear is a

fool." In its issue of March 27th 1889, the _Rochdale Observer_ reported

John Bright as scornfully angry with deluded people who believe that

Shakespeare wrote Othello.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON, b. 1803, d. 1882.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great American philosopher and poet, says: "As

long as the question is of talent and mental power, the world of men

has not his equal to show.... The Egyptian verdict of the Shakespeare

Societies comes to mind that he was a jovial actor and manager. I

cannot marry this fact to his verse."--_Emerson's Works. London, 1883.

Vol. 4, p. 420_.

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, b. 1807, d. 1892.

John Greenleaf Whittier, the American poet, declared: "Whether Bacon

wrote the wonderful plays or not, I am quite sure the man Shakspere

neither did nor could."

DR. W. H. FURNESS, b. 1802, d. 1891.

Dr. W. H. Furness, the eminent American scholar, who was the father of

the Editor of the Variorum Edition of Shakespeare's Works, wrote to

Nathaniel Holmes in a letter dated Oct. 29th 1866: "I am one of the many

who have never been able to bring the life of William Shakespeare and

the plays of Shakespeare within planetary space of each other. Are there

any two things in the world more incongruous? Had the plays come down to

us anonymously, had the labor of discovering the author been imposed

upon after generations, I think we could have found no one of that day

but F. Bacon to whom to assign the crown. In this case it would have

been resting now on his head by almost common consent."

MARK TWAIN, b. 1835, d. 1910.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who wrote under the pseudonym of Mark Twain,

was,--it is universally admitted,--one of the wisest of men. Last year

(1909) he published a little book with the title, "Is Shakespeare dead?"

In this he treats with scathing scorn those who can persuade themselves

that the immortal plays were written by the Stratford clown. He writes,

pp. 142-3: "You can trace the life histories of the whole of them [the

world's celebrities] save one far and away the most colossal prodigy of

the entire accumulation--Shakespeare. About him you can find out

_nothing_. Nothing of even the slightest importance. Nothing worth the

trouble of stowing away in your memory. Nothing that even remotely

indicates that he was ever anything more than a distinctly common-place

person--a manager,[15] an actor of inferior grade, a small trader in a

small village that did not regard him as a person of any consequence,

and had forgotten him before he was fairly cold in his grave. We can go

to the records and find out the life-history of every renowned

_race-horse_ of modern times--but not Shakespeare's! There are many

reasons why, and they have been furnished in cartloads (of guess and

conjecture) by those troglodytes; but there is one that is worth all the

rest of the reasons put together, and is abundantly sufficient all by

itself--_he hadn't any history to record_. There is no way of getting

around that deadly fact. And no sane way has yet been discovered of

getting round its formidable significance. Its quite plain significance

--to any but those thugs (I do not use the term unkindly) is, that

Shakespeare had no prominence while he lived, and none until he had been

dead two or three generations. The Plays enjoyed high fame from the

beginning."

PRINCE BISMARCK, b. 1815, d. 1898.

We are told in Sydney Whitman's "Personal Reminiscences of Prince

Bismarck," pp. 135-6, that in 1892, Prince Bismarck said, "He could not

understand how it were possible that a man, however gifted with the

intuitions of genius, could have written what was attributed to

Shakespeare unless he had been in touch with the great affairs of state,

behind the scenes of political life, and also intimate with all the

social courtesies and refinements of thought which in Shakspeare's time

were only to be met with in the highest circles."

"It also seemed to Prince Bismarck incredible that the man who had

written the greatest dramas in the world's literature could of his own

free will, whilst still in the prime of life, have retired to such a

place as Stratford-on-Avon and lived there for years, cut off from

intellectual society, and out of touch with the world."

The foregoing list of men of the very greatest ability and intelligence

who were able clearly to perceive the absurdity of continuing to accept

the commonly received belief that the Mighty Author of the immortal

Plays was none other than the mean rustic of Stratford, might be

extended indefinitely, but the names that we have mentioned are amply

sufficient to prove to the reader that he will be in excellent company

when he himself realises the truth that

BACON IS SHAKESPEARE.

A NEUER WRITER, TO AN EUER READER. NEWES.

Eternall reader, you haue heere a new play, neuer stal'd with the Stage,

neuer clapper-clawd with the palmes of the vulger, and yet passing full

of the palme comicall; for it is a birth of your braine, that neuer

under-tooke any thing commicall, vainely: And were but the vaine names

of commedies changde for the titles of Commodities, or of Playes for

Pleas; you should see all those grand censors, that now stile them such

vanities, flock to them for the maine grace of their grauities:

especially this authors Commedies, that are so fram'd to the life, that

they serve for the most common Commentaries, of all the actions of our

Hues shewing such a dexteritie, and power of witte, that the most

displeased with Playes are pleasd with his Commedies.....

And beleeue this, that when hee is gone, and his Commedies out of sale,

you will scramble for them, and set up a new English Inquisition. Take

this for a warning, and at the perrill of your pleasures losse, and

Judgements, refuse not, nor like this the lesse, for not being sullied,

with the smoaky breath of the multitude.[16]

ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA.

Footnote to page 45. There was a forest of Arden in Warwickshire.

Footnote to page 51. This Richard Quyney's son Thomas married 10th

February 1616, Judith, William Shakespeare's younger daughter, who, like

her father, the supposed poet, was totally illiterate, and signed the

Register with a mark.

Footnote to page 62. In 1615, although nothing of poetical importance

bearing Bacon's name had been published, we find in Stowe's "Annales,"

p. 811, that Bacon's name appears seventh in the list there given of

Elizabethan poets.

ERRATA.

P. 5. For "knew little Latin" read "had small Latin."

P. 29. For "line 511" read "line 512."

P. 81. For "Montegut" read "Montegut."

For "Greek for crowned" read "Greek for

crown."

P. 93 & 94. For "Quintillian" read "Quintilian."

P. 133. For "Greek name" read "Greek word."

PROMUS

OF

FOURMES AND ELEGANCYES

BY

FRANCIS BACON.

PREFACE TO PROMUS

To these Essays I have attached a carefully collated reprint of Francis

Bacon's "Promus of Formularies and Elegancies," a work which is to be

found in Manuscript at the British Museum in the Harleian Collection

(No. 7,017.)

The folios at present known are numbered from 83 to 132, and are

supposed to have been written about A.D. 1594-6, because folio 85 is

dated December 5th 1594, and folio 114, January 27 1595.

The pagination of the MS. is modern, and was inserted for reference

purposes when the Promus was bound up in one volume together with

certain other miscellaneous manuscripts which are numbered from 1 to 82,

and from 133 onwards.

A facsimile of a portion of a leaf of the Promus MS., folio 85, is given

on pages 190-91, in order to illustrate Bacon's handwriting, and also to

shew his method of marking the entries. It will be perceived that some

entries have lines //// drawn across the writing, while upon others

marks similar to the capital letters T, F, and A are placed at the end

of the lines. But as the Promus is here printed page for page as in the

manuscript, I am not raising the question of the signification of these

marks, excepting only to say they indicate that Bacon made considerable

use of these memoranda.

"Promus" means larder or storehouse, and these "Fourmes, Formularies and

Elegancyes" appear to have been intended as a storehouse of words and

phrases to be employed in the production of subsequent literary works.

Mrs. Pott was the first to print the "Promus," which, with translations

and references, she published in 1883. In her great work, which really

may be described as monumental, Mrs. Pott points out, by means of some

thousands of quotations, how great a use appears to have been made of

the "Promus" notes, both in the acknowledged works of Bacon and in the

plays which are known as Shakespeare's.

Mrs. Pott's reading of the manuscript was extremely good, considering

the great difficulty experienced in deciphering the writing. But I

thought it advisable when preparing a reprint to secure the services of

the late Mr. F. B. Bickley, of the British Museum, to carefully revise

the whole of Bacon's "Promus." This task he completed and I received

twenty-four proofs, which I caused to be bound with a title page in

1898. There were no other copies, the whole of the type having

unfortunately been broken up. The proof has again been carefully

collated with the original manuscript and corrected by Mr. F. A.

Herbert, of the British Museum, and I have now reprinted it here, as I

am satisfied that the more Bacon's Promus--the Storehouse--is examined,

the more it will be recognised how large a portion of the material

collected therein has been made use of in the Immortal Plays, and I

therefore now issue the Promus with the present essay as an additional

proof of the identity of Bacon and Shakespeare.

EDWIN DURNING-LAWRENCE.

[Illustration: Plate XLII. Facsimile of portion of Folio 85 of the

Original MS of Bacon's "Promus." see page 199]

[Illustration: Plate XLIII. Portrait of Francis Bacon, from a Painting

by Van Somers. Formerly in the Collection of the Duke of Fife]

Promus of Formularies.

_Folio 83, front_.

Ingenuous honesty and yet with opposition and

strength.

Corni contra croci good means against badd, homes

to crosses.

In circuitu ambulant impij; honest by antiperistasis.

Siluj a bonis et dolor meus renouatus est.

Credidj propter quod locutus sum.

Memoria justi cum laudibus at impiorum nomen

putrescet

Justitiamque omnes cupida de mente fugarunt.

Non recipit stultus verba prudential nisi ea dixeris

quaee uersantur in corde ejus

Veritatem erne et noli vendere

Qui festinat ditari non erat insons

Nolite dare sanctum canibus.

Qui potest capere capiat

Quoniam Moses ad duritiam cordis uestri permisit

uobis

Obedire oportet deo magis quam hominibus.

Et vniuscujusque opus quale sit probabit ignis

Non enim possumus aliquid aduersus ueritatem sed

pro ueritate.

_Folio 83, front--continued_.

For which of y'e good woorkes doe yow stone me

Quorundam hominum peccata praecedunt ad judicium

quorundam sequuntur

Bonum certamen certauj

Sat patriae priamoque datum.

Ilicet obruimur numero.

Atque animis illabere nostris

Hoc praetexit nomine culpam.

Procul o procul este prophani

Magnanimj heroes nati melioribus annis

_Folio 83, back_.

Ille mihi ante alios fortunatusque laborum

Egregiusque animi qui ne quid tale videret

Procubuit moriens et humum semel ore momordit

Fors et uirtus miscentur in vnum.

Non ego natura nec sum tam callidus vsu.

aeuo rarissima nostro simplicitas

Viderit vtilitas ego cepta fideliter edam.

Prosperum et foelix scelus, virtus vocatur

Tibi res antiquas laudis et artis

Inuidiam placare paras uirtute relicta.

Iliacos intra muros peccatur et extra

Homo sum humanj a me nil alienum puto.

The grace of God is woorth a fayre

Black will take no other hue

Vnum augurium optimum tueri patria.

Exigua res est ipsa justitia

Dat veniam coruis uexat censura columbas.

Homo hominj deus

Semper virgines furiae; Cowrting a furye

Di danarj di senno et di fede

Ce ne manco che tu credj

Chi semina spine non vada discalzo

Mas vale a quien Dios ayuda que a quien mucho

madruga.

Quien nesciamente pecca nesciamente ua al infierno

Quien ruyn es en su uilla

Ruyn es en Seuilla

De los leales se hinchen los huespitales

_Folio 84, front_.

We may doe much yll or we doe much woorse

Vultu laeditur saepe pietas.

Difficilia quae pulchra

Conscientia mille testes.

Summum Jus summa injuria

Nequiequam patrias tentasti lubricus artes.

Et monitj meliora sequamur

Nusquam tuta fides

Discite Justitiam moniti et non temnere diuos

Quisque suos patimur manes.

Extinctus amabitur idem.

Optimus ille animi vindex laedentium pectus

Vincula qui rupit dedoluitque semel.

Virtue like a rych geme best plaine sett

Quibus bonitas a genere penitus insita est

ij iam non mali esse nolunt sed nesciunt

Oeconomicae rationes publicas peruertunt.

Divitiae Impedimenta virtutis; The bagage of

vertue

Habet et mors aram.

Nemo virtuti invidiam reconciliauerit praeter

mort ...

Turpe proco ancillam sollicitare Est autem

virtutis ancilia laus.

Si suum cuique tribuendum est certe et venia

humanitati

Qui dissimulat liber non est

Leue efficit jugum fortunae jugum amicitiae

Omnis medecina Innouatio

_Folio 84, front--continued_.

Auribus mederi difficillimum.

Suspitio fragilem fidem soluit fortem incendit

Pauca tamen suberunt priscae vestigia fraudis

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

Mors et fugacem persequitur virum.

Danda est hellebori multo pars maxima avar [is]

_Folio 84, back_.

Minerall wytts strong poyson and they be not

corrected

aquexar.

Ametallado fayned inameled.

Totum est majus sua parte against factions and

priuate profite

Galens compositions not paracelsus separations

Full musike of easy ayres withowt strange concordes

and discordes

In medio non sistit uirtus

Totem est quod superest

A stone withowt foyle

A whery man that lookes one way and pulls another

Ostracisme

Mors in Olla poysonings

Fumos uendere.

[Sidenote up the left margin oriented at ninety degrees to the text:

FOURMES COMERSATE]

_Folio 85, front_.

Dec. 5, 1594.

Promus

// Suauissima vita indies meliorem fierj

The grace of God is woorth a faire

Mors in olla F

// No wise speech thowgh easy and voluble.

Notwithstanding his dialogues (of one that giueth

life to his speach by way of quaestion). T

He can tell a tale well (of those cowrtly giftes of

speach w'ch. are better in describing then in

consydering) F

A goode Comediante T (of one that hath good

grace in his speach)

To commend Judgments.

// To comend sense of law

// Cunyng in the humors of persons but not in the

condicons of actions

Stay a littell that we make an end the sooner. A

// A fooles bolt is soone shott

His lippes hang in his light. A. T

// Best we lay a straw hear

A myll post thwitten to a pudding pricke T

// One swallo maketh no sumer

L'Astrologia e vera ma l'astrologuo non sj truoua

// Hercules pillers non vltra. T

// He had rather haue his will then his wyshe. T

Well to forgett

Make much of yourselfe

_Folio 85, front--continued_.

Wyshing yow all &c and myself occasion to doe

yow servyce

// I shalbe gladd to vnderstand your newes but none

// rather then some ouerture whearin I may doe

// yow service

// Ceremonyes and green rushes are for strangers T

How doe yow? They haue a better question in cheap side w'lak ye

// Poore and trew. Not poore therefore not trew T

_Folio 85, back_.

Tuque Inuidiosa vestustas. T

Licentia sumus omnes deteriores. T

Qui dat nivem sicut lanam T

Lilia agri non laborant neque nent T

Mors omnia solvit T

// A quavering tong.

like a cuntry man that curseth the almanach. T

Ecce duo gladij his. T

Arnajore ad minorem. T

In circuitu ambulant impij T

Exijt sermo inter fratres quod discipulus iste non

moritur T

Omne majus continet in se mjnus T

Sine vlla controuersia quod minus est majore

benedic ... T

She is light she may be taken in play T

He may goe by water for he is sure to be well

landed T

// Small matters need sollicitacion great are remem-

bred of themselues

The matter goeth so slowly forward that I haue

almost forgott it my self so as I maruaile not

if my frendes forgett

Not like a crabb though like a snaile

Honest men hardly chaung their name. T

The matter thowgh it be new (if that be new wch)

hath been practized in like case thowgh not in

this particular

I leaue the reasons to the parties relacions and the

consyderacion of them to your wysdome

_Folio 86, front_.

I shall be content my howrs intended for service

leaue me in liberty

// It is in vayne to forbear to renew that greef by

// speach w'ch the want of so great a comfort must

// needes renew.

// As I did not seeke to wynne your thankes so your

// courteous acceptacion deserueth myne

// The vale best discouuereth the hill T.

// Sometymes a stander by seeth more than a plaier T.

The shortest foly is the best. T.

// I desire no secrett newes but the truth of comen

newes. T.

// Yf the bone be not trew[17] sett it will neuer be well

till it be broken. T.

// Cheries and newes fall price soonest. T.

You vse the lawyers fourme of pleading T.

// The difference is not between yow and me but

between your proffite and my trust

// All is not in years some what is in howres well

spent. T.

// Offer him a booke T

// Why hath not God sent yow my mynd or me your

// means.

// I thinke it my dowble good happ both for the

obteynyng and for the mean.

// Shutt the doore for I mean to speak treason T.

I wysh one as fytt as I am vnfitt

I doe not onely dwell farre from neighbors but near

yll neighbors. T

_Folio 86, front--continued_.

// As please the paynter T.

Receperunt mercedem suam. T.

Secundum tidem vestram fiet vobis

Ministerium meum honorificabo

_Folio 86, back_.

Beati mortuj qui moriuntur in domino

Detractor portat Diabolum in lingua T

frangimur heu fatis inquit ferimurque procella

Nunc ipsa vocat res

Dij meliora pijs erroremque hostibus illum

Aliquisque malo fuit vsus in illo

Vsque acleo latet vtilitas

Et tamen arbitrium que, rit res ista duorum.

Vt esse phebi dulcius lumen solet

Jam jam cadentis

Velle suum cuique est nee voto viuitur vno

Who so knew what would be dear

Nead be a marchant but a year.

Blacke will take no other hew

He can yll pipe that wantes his vpper lip

Nota res mala optima

Balbus balbum rectius intelligit

L' agua va al mar

A tyme to gett and a tyme to loose

Nee dijs nee viribus equis

Vnum pro multis dabitur caput

Mitte hanc de pectore curam

Neptunus ventis impleuit vela secundis

A brayne cutt with facettes T

T Yow drawe for colors but it prooueth contrarie

T Qui in paruis non distinguit in magnis labitur.

Every thing is subtile till it be conceyued

_Folio 87, front_.

That y't. is forced is not forcible

More ingenious then naturall

Quod longe jactum est leviter ferit

Doe yow know it? Hoc solum scio quod nihil scio

I know it? so say many

Now yow say somewhat.s. euen when yow will; now

yow begynne to conceyue I begynne to say.

What doe yow conclude vpon that? etiam tentas

All is one.s. Contrariorum eadam est ratio.

Repeat your reason.s. Bis ac ter pulchra.

Hear me owt.s. you were neuer in.

Yow iudg before yow vnderstand.s. I iudg as I vnderstand.

You goe from the matter.s. But it was to folow yow.

Come to the poynt.s. why I shall not find yow thear

Yow doe not vnderstand y'e poynt.s. for if I did.

Let me make an end of my tale.s. That which I

will say will make an end of it

Yow take more then is graunted.s.

you graunt lesse then is prooued

Yow speak colorably.s. yow may not say truly.

That is not so by your fauour.s. But by my reason

it is so

_Folio 87, back_.

It is so I will warrant yow.s. yow may warrant me

but I thinke I shall not vowche yow

Awnswere directly.s. yow mean as you may direct

me

Awnswere me shortly.s. yea that yow may coment

vpon it.

The cases will come together.s. It wilbe to fight

then.

Audistis quia dictum est antiquis

Secundum hominem dico

Et quin[18] non novit talia?

Hoc praetexit nomine culpa

Et fuit in toto notissima fabula celo

Quod quidam facit

Nee nihil neque omnia sunt quae dicit

Facete nunc demum nata ista est oratio

Qui mal intend pis respond

Tum decujt cum sceptra dabas

En haec promissa fides est?

Proteges eos in tabernaculo tuo a contradictione

linuarum.

[Greek: prin to thronein katathronein epistasai]

Sicut audiuimus sic vidimus

Credidj propter quod locutus sum.

Quj erudit derisorem sibj injuriam facit

Super mjrarj ceperunt philosopharj

_Folio 88, front_.

Prudens celat scientiam stultus proclamat stultitiam

Querit derisor sapientiam nee invenit eam.

Non recipit stultus verba prudentie nisi ea dixeris

quae sunt in corde ejus

Lucerna Dej spiraculum hominis

Veritatem eme et noli vendere

Melior claudus in via quam cursor extra viam.

The glory of God is to conceale a thing and the

glory of man is to fynd owt a thing.

Melior est finis orationis quam principium.

Injtium verborum ejus stultitia et novissimum oris

illius pura insania

Verba sapientium sicut aculej et vebut clavj in

altum defixj.

Quj potest capere capiat

Vos adoratis quod nescitis

Vos nihil scitis

Quod est veritas.

Quod scripsj scripsj

Nolj dicere rex Judeorum sed dicens se regem

Judeorum

Virj fratres liceat audacter dicere apud vos

Quod uult seminator his verborum dicere

_Folio 88, back_.

Multe te litere ad Insaniam redigunt.

Sapientiam loquiraur inter perfectos

Et Justificata est sapientia a filijs suis.

Scientia inflat charitas edificat

Eadem vobis scribere mihi non pigrum vobis autem

necessarium

Hoc autem dico vt nemo vos decipiat in sublimi-

tate sermonum.

Omnia probate quod bonum este tenete

Fidelis sermo

Semper discentes et nunquam ad scientiam veritatis

pervenientes

Proprius ipsorum propheta

Testimonium hoc verum est

Tantam nubem testium.

Sit omnis homo velox ad audiendum tardus ad

loquendum.

Error novissimus pejor priore.

Quecunque ignorant blasphemant

Non credimus quia non legimus

Facile est vt quis Augustinum vincat viderit vtrum

veritate an clamore.

Bellum omnium pater

De nouueau tout est beau

De saison tout est bon

Dj danarj di senno et di fede

Ce ne manca che tu credj

Di mentira y saqueras verdad

_Folio 89, front_.

Magna Civitas magna solitude

light gaines make heuy purses

He may be in my paternoster indeed

But sure he shall neuer be in my Creed

Tanti causas sciat ilia furosis

What will yow?

For the rest

It is possible

Not the lesse for that

Allwaies provyded

Yf yow stay thear

for a tyme

will yow see

what shalbe the end.

Incident

Yow take it right

All this while

Whear stay we? prima facie.

That agayne. more or less.

I find that straunge It is bycause

Not vnlike quasi vero

Yf that be so Best of all

What els

Nothing lesse

Yt cometh to that

Hear yow faile

To meet with that

Bear with that

And how now

_Folio 89, front--continued_.

Of grace

as if

let it not displease yow

Yow putt me in mynd

I object, I demaund I distinguish etc.

A matter not in question

few woordes need

much may be said,

yow haue

well offred.

The mean the tyme

All will not serue

Yow haue forgott nothing.

Causa patet

Tamen quaere.

Well remembred

I arreste yow thear

I cannot thinke that

Discourse better

I was thinking of that

I come to that

That is iust nothing

Peraduenture Interrogatory.

Se then how (for much lesse)

NOTE.--This folio is written in three columns. The first two are printed

on page 209, and this page forms the third column. The first line, "Of

grace," is written opposite the sixth line on page 209, "What will yow?"

_Folio 89, back_.

Non est apud aram Consultandem.

Eumenes litter

Sorti pater equus vtrique

Est quoddam [_sic_] prodire tenus si non datur vltra.

Quem si non tenuit magnis tamen excidit ausis

Conamur tenues grandia

Tentantem majora fere praesentibus equum.

Da facilem cursum atque audacibus annue ceptis

Neptunus ventis implevit vela secundis

Crescent illae crescetis Amores

Et quae nunc ratio est impetus ante fuit

Aspice venturo laetentur vt omnia seclo

In Academijs discunt credere

_Vos adoratis quod nescitis_

To gyue Awthors thear due as yow gyue Tyme his

dew w'ch is to discouuer troth.

Vos graeci semper pueri

Non canimus surdis respondent omnia syluae

populus volt decipi

_Scientiam loquimur inter perfectos

Et Justificata est sapientia a filijs suis_

Pretiosa in oculis domini mors sanctorum ejus

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.

Magistratus virum iudicat.

Da sapienti occasionem et addetur ej sapienta

Vite me redde priorj

I had rather know then be knowne

_Folio 90, front_.

Orpheus in syluis inter Delphinas Arion

Inopem me copia fecit.

An instrument in tunyng

A yowth sett will neuer be higher.

like as children doe w'th their babies when they haue

plaied enowgh wth them they take sport to

undoe them.

Faber quisque fortune suae

Hinc errores multiplices quod de partibus vitae

singuli deliberant de summa nemo.

Vtilitas magnos hominesque deosque efficit auxilijs

quoque fauente suis.

Qui in agone contendit a multis abstinet

Quidque cupit sperat suaque illum oracula fallunt

Serpens nisi serpentem comederit non fit Draco

The Athenians holyday.

Optimi consiliarij mortuj

Cum tot populis stipatus eat

In tot populis vix vna fides

Odere Reges dicta quae dici iubent

Nolite confidere in principibus

Et multis vtile bellum.

Pulchrorum Autumnus pulcher

Vsque adeone times quern tu facis ipse timendum.

Dux femina facti

Res est ingeniosa dare

A long wynter maketh a full ear.

Declinat cursus aurumque uolubile tollit

Romaniscult.

Vnum augurium optimum tueri patriam

Bene omnia fecit

_Folio 90, back_.

Et quo quenque modo fugiatque feratque laborem edocet.

Non vlla laborum o virgo nova mi facies inopinave surgit;

Omnia praecepi atque animo mecum ante peregi.

Cultus major censu

Tale of y'e frogg that swelled.

Viderit vtilitas

Qui eget verseter in turba

While the legg warmeth the boote harmeth

Augustus rapide ad locum leniter in loco

My father was chudd for not being a baron.

Prowd when I may doe any man good.

I contemn few men but most thinges.

A vn matto vno & mezo

Tantene animis celestibus ire

Tela honoris tenerior

Alter rixatur de lana sepe caprina

Propugnat nugis armatus scilicet vt non

Sit mihi prima fides.

Nam cur ego amicum offendam in nugis

A skulter

We haue not drunke all of one water.

Ilicet obruimur numer[o].

Numbring not weighing

let them haue long mornynges that haue not good

afternoones

Cowrt howres

Constancy to remayne in the same state

_Folio 90, back--continued_.

The art of forgetting.

Rather men then maskers.

Variam dans otium mentem

Spire lynes.

_Folio 91, front_.

Veruntamen vane conturbatur omnis homo

Be the day never so long at last it ringeth to

even-song.

Vita salillum.

Non possumus aliquid contra veritatem sed pro veritate.

Sapie[n]tia quoque perseueravit mecum

Magnorum fluuiorum navigabiles fontes.

Dos est vxoria lites

Haud numine nostro

Atque animis illabere nostris

Animos nil magne laudi egentes

Magnanimj heroes nati mehioribus annis

AEuo rarissima nostro Simplicitas

Qui silet est firmus

Si nunquam fallit imago

And I would haue thowght

Sed fugit interea fugit irreparabile temp[us]

Totum est quod superest

In a good beleef

Possunt quia posse videntur

Justitiamque omnes cupida de mente fugaru[nt]

Lucrificulus

Qui bene nugatur ad mensam sepe vocatur

faciunt et tedi[urn finitum?][19]

Malum bene conditum ne moveas

Be it better be it woorse

Goe yow after him that beareth the purse

Tranquillo quilibet gubernator

Nullus emptor difficilis bonum emit opsonium

Chi semina spine non vada discalzo

_Folio 91, back_.

Quoniam Moses ad duritiem cordis permi [sit] vobis

Non nossem peccatum nisi per legem.

Discite Justitiam monit;

Vbj testamentum ibi necesse est mors intercedat

testatoris

Scimus quia lex bona est si quis ea vtatur legitime

Ve vobis Jurisperitj

Nee me verbosas leges ediscere nee me Ingrato

voces prostituisse foro.

fixit leges pretio atque refixit

Nec ferrea Jura Insanumque forum et populi

tabularia vidit

Miscueruntque novercae non innoxia verba

Jurisconsultj domus oraculum Civitatis

now as ambiguows as oracles.

Hic clamosi rabiosa forj

Jurgia vendens improbus

Iras et verba locat

In veste varietas sit scissura non sit

Plenitude potestatis est plenitudo tempestatis

Iliacos intra muros peccatur et extra

Prosperum et felix scelus virtus vocatur

Da mihi fallere da iustum sanctumque viderj.

Nil nisi turpe iuuat cure est sua cuique voluptas

Hec quoque ab alterius grata dolore venit

Casus ne deusne

fabuleque manes

_Folio 92, front_.

Ille Bioneis sermonibus et sale nigro

Existimamus diuitem omnia scire recte

Querunt cum qua gente cadant

Totus mu[n]dus in malingo positus

O major tandem parcas insane minori

Reall

forma dat esse

Nee fandj fictor Vlisses

Non tu plus cernis sed plus temerarius audes

Nec tibj plus cordis sed minus oris inest.

Invidiam placare paras virtute relicta

[Greek: ho polla klepsas oliga douk ekpheuxetai]

Botrus oppositus Botro citius maturescit.

Old treacle new losanges.

Soft fire makes sweet malt.

Good to be mery and wise.

Seeldome cometh the better.

He must needes swymme that is held vp by the chynne.

He that will sell lawne before he can fold it.

Shall repent him before he haue sold it.

No man loueth his fetters thowgh they be of gold.

The nearer the church the furder from God.

All is not gold that glisters.

Beggers should be no chuzers.

A beck is as good as a dieu vous gard.

The rowling stone neuer gathereth mosse.

Better children weep then old men.

_Folio 92, back_.

When bale is heckst boote is next.

Ill plaieng w'th short dag (taunting replie).

He that neuer clymb neuer fell.

The loth stake standeth long.

Itch and ease can no man please.

To much of one thing is good for nothing.

Ever spare and euer bare.

A catt may looke on a Kyng.

He had need be a wyly mowse should breed in the

cattes ear.

Many a man speaketh of Rob. hood that neuer shott

in his bowe.

Batchelers wyues and maides children are well

taught.

God sendeth fortune to fooles.

Better are meales many then one to mery.

Many kisse the child for the nurses sake.

When the head akes all the body is the woorse.

When theeues fall owt trew men come to their good.

An yll wynd that bloweth no man to good.

All this wynd shakes no Corn.

Thear be more waies to the wood then one.

Tymely crookes the Tree that will a good Camocke be.

Better is the last smile then thefirst laughter.

No peny no pater noster.

Every one for himself and God for vs all.

_Folio 93, front_.

Long standing and small offring.

The catt knowes whose lippes she lickes.

As good neuer a whitt as neuer the better.

fluvius quae procul sunt irrigat.

As far goeth the pilgrymme as the post.

Cura esse quod audis.

[Greek: Erga neon Bomlai de meson enchai de geronton.]

Taurum tollet qui vitulum sustulerit.

Lunae radijs non maturescit Botrus.

Nil profuerit Bulbus; y'e potado will doe no good.

Dormientis rete trahit The sleeping mans nett draweth.

ijsdem e literis efficitur Tragedia et Comedia.

Tragedies and Comedies are made of one Alphabett.

Good wyne needes no bush.

Heroum filij noxae.

The sonnes of demy goddes demy men.

Alia res sceptrum alia plectrum

fere danides.[20]

Abore dejecta quivis ligna colligit.

The hasty bytch whelpes a blind lytter.

Priscis credendum.

We must beleeue the wytnesses are dead.

Thear is no trusting a woman nor a tapp.

_Folio 93, back_.

Not onely y'e Spring but the Michelmas Spring.

Virj iurejurandi pueri talis fallendj.

Ipsa dies quandoque parens quandoque noverca est.

Vbj non sis qui fueris non esse cur velis viuere.

Compendiaria res improbitas.

It is in action as it is in wayes; comonly the nearest

is the fowlest.

Lachrima nil citius arescit.

woorke when God woorkes.

A shrewd turn comes vnbidden.

Hirundines sub eodem tecto ne habeas.

A thorn is gentle when it is yong.

Aut regem aut fatuum nasci oportet (of a free jester).

Exigua res est ipsa Justitia.

Quae non posuistj ne tollas.

Dat veniam coruis vexat Censura columbas.

Lapsa lingua verum dicit.

The toung trippes vpon troth.

The evill is best that is lest [best?] knowen.

A mercury cannot be made of every wood (bvt

priapus may).

Princes haue a Cypher.

Anger of all passions beareth the age lest [best?].

One hand washeth another.

Iron sharpeth against Iron.

_Folio 94, front_.

Eyther bate conceyte or putt to strength.

faciunt et sphaceli Immunitatem.

He may be a fidler that cannot be a violine.

Milke the staunding Cowe. Why folowe yow the

flyeng.

He is the best prophete that telleth the best fortune.

Garlike and beans

like lettize like lips.

Mons cum monte non miscetur.

Hilles meet not.

A northen man may speake broad.

Haesitantia Cantoris Tussis.

No hucking Cator buyeth good achates.

Spes alit exules.

Romanus sedendo vincit.

Yow must sowe w'th the hand not w'th the baskett.

Mentiuntur multa cantores (few pleasing speches

true).

It is noth if it be in verse.

Leonis Catulum ne alas.

He cowrtes a fury.

Dij laneos habent pedes (They leaue no prynt).

The weary ox setteth stronger.

A mans customes are the mowldes whear his fortune

is cast.

_Folio 94, back_.

Beware of the vinegar of sweet wyne.

Adoraturj sedeant.[21]

To a foolish people a preest possest.

The packes may be sett right by the way.

It is the Cattes nature and the wenches fault.

Coene fercula nostre.

Mallem conviuis quam placuisse cocis.

Al Confessor medico e aduocato.

Non si de tener [tena?] il ver celato.

Assaj ben balla a chi fortuna suona.

A yong Barber and an old phisicion.

Buon vin Cattina testa dice il griego.

Buon vin fauola lunga.

good watch chazeth yll aduenture.

Campo rotto paga nuoua.

Better be martyr then Confessor.

L'Imbassador no porta pena.

Bella botta non ammazza vecello.

A tender finger maketh a festred sore.

A catt will neuer drowne if she see the shore.

Qui a teme [temor?] a lie.

He that telleth tend [tond?] lyeth is eyther a foole

himself or he to whome he telles them.

Che posce a [ci?] Cana pierde piu che guadagna.

_Folio 95, front_.

Ramo curto vindimi lunga

Tien l'amico tuo con viso suo.

Gloria in the end of the salme

An asses trott and a fyre of strawe dureth not

Por mucho madrugar no amanece mas ayna

Erly rising hasteneth not y'e morning.

Do yra el Buey que no are?

Mas vale buena quexa que mala paga

Better good pleint then yll pay

He that pardons his enemy the amner shall haue

his goodes

Chi offendi maj perdona

He that resolues in hast repentes at leasure

A dineros pagados brazos quebrados.

Mas uale bien de lexos que mal de cerca.

El lobo & la vulpeja son todos d'vna conseja

No haze poco quien tu mal echa a otro (oster before)

El buen suena, el mal buela.

At the trest of the yll the lest

Di mentira y sagueras verdad

Tell a lye to knowe a treuth

La oveja mansa mamma su madre y agena

En fin la soga quiebra por el mas delgado.

Quien ruyn es en su villa ruyn es en Sevilla

Quien no da nudo pierde punto

Quien al Ciel escupe a la cara se le buelve

Covetousenesse breakes the sacke

Dos pardales a tua espiga haze mala ligua

_Folio 95, back_.

Quien ha las hechas ha las sospechas.

La muger que no vera no haze larga tela

Quien a las hechas ha las sospechas.

Todos los duelos con pan son buenos.

El mozo por no saber, y el viejo por no poder dexan

las cosas pierder.

La hormiga quandose a de perder nasiente alas

De los leales se hinchen los huespitales.

Dos que se conoscan de lexos se saludan.

Bien ayrna quien mal come.

Por mejoria mi casa dexaria

Hombre apercebido medio combatido

He caries fier in one hand and water in the other

To beat the bush while another catches the byrd

To cast beyond the moone

His hand is on his halfpeny

As he brues so he must drinke

Both badd me God speed but neyther bad me wellcome

To bear two faces in a whood

To play cold prophett

To sett vp a candell before the devill

He thinketh his farthing good syluer

_Folio 96, front_.

Let them that be a cold blowe at the cold.

I haue seen as farre come as nigh

The catt would eat fish but she will not wett her foote

Jack would be a gentleman if he could speake french

Tell your cardes and tell me what yow haue wonne

Men know how the markett goeth by the markett men.

The keyes hang not all by one mans gyrdell.

While the grasse growes the horse starueth

I will hang the bell about the cattes neck.

He is one of them to whome God bedd heu

I will take myne altar in myne armes

for the mooneshyne in the water

It may ryme but it accords not

To make a long haruest for a lyttell corn

_Folio 96, back_.

Neyther to heavy nor to hott

Soft for dashing

Thowght is free

The deuill hath cast a bone to sett strife

To putt ones hand between the barke and the Tree

Who meddles in all thinges may shoe the gosling

Let the catt wynke and lett the mowse runne

He hath one pointe of a good haulke he is handy

The first poynt of a faulkener to hold fast

Ech finger is a thumb

Owt of Gods blessing into the warme sune.

At eve[r]y dogges barke to awake

A lone day

My self can tell best where my shoe wringes me

A cloke for the Rayne

To leap owt of the frieng pan into the fyre

Now toe on her distaff then she can spynne

To byte and whyne

The world runs on wheeles

He would haue better bread than can be made of whea[t]

To take hart of grace

_Folio 97, front_.

Thear was no more water then the shipp drewe

A man must tell yow tales and find yow ears

Haruest ears (of a busy man).

When thrift is in the feeld he is in the Towne

That he wynnes in y'e hundreth he louseth in the Shyre

To stumble at a strawe and leap over a bloc

To stoppe two gappes with one bush

To doe more than the preest spake of on Sunday

To throwe the hatchet after the helve

Yow would be ouer the stile before yow come at it.

Asinus avis (a foolish conjecture).

Herculis Cothurnos aptare infantj

To putt a childes leg into Hercules buskin

Jupiter orbus

Tales of Jupiter dead withowt yssue

Juxta fluuium puteum fodere

To dig a well by the Ryuer side

A ring of Gold on a swynes snowte

To help the sunne with lantornes

In ostio formosus (gratiows to shew)

Myosobae flyflappers (offyciows fellowes)

[Greek: Adelphizein]. To brother it (fayre speech)

Jactare iugum To shake the yoke

When It was to salt to wash it with fresh water

(when speach groweth in bi ... to fynd taulke

more gratfull)

_Folio 97, back_.

Mira de lente

Quid ad farinas.

Quarta luna Natj (Hercules nativity).

Olle amicitia.

Venus font.

Utraque nutans sententia

Hasta caduceum

The two that went to a feast both at dyner and

supper neyther knowne, the one a tall the other

a short man and said they would be one

anothers shadowe. It was replied it fell owt fitt,

for at noone the short man mowght be the long

mans shadowe and at night the contrary.

A sweet dampe (a dislike of moist perfume).

Wyld tyme on the grownd hath a sent like a Cypresse chest.

Panis lapidosus grytty bread

Plutoes Helmett; secrecy Invisibility

Laconismus

Omnem vocem mittere (from inchantmentes)

Tertium caput; (of one ouercharged that hath a burden

upon eyther showder and the 3rd. vpon his head).

Triceps mercurius (great cunyng).

Creta notare (chaulking and colouring).

_Folio 98, front_.

Vt phidie signum (presently allowed).

Jovis sandalium; (Jupiters slipper, a man onely

esteemed for nearnesse).

Pennas nido majore extendere.

Hic Rhodus Hic Saltus (exacting demonstracion).

Atticus in portum

Divinum excipio sermonem

Agamemnonis hostia

With sailes and owres

To way ancre.

To keep strooke (fitt conjunctes).

To myngle heauen and earth together.

To stirr his curteynes (to raise his wyttes and sprites).

Comovere sacra

To iudg the Corne by the strawe.

Domj Conjecturam facere [Greek: oikothen eikax[ein]]

To divine with a sive (?)

Mortuus per somnum vacabis curis (of one that

interpretes all thinges to the best).

Nil sacrj es (Hercules to adonis).

Plumbeo iugulare gladio (A tame argument).

Locrensis bos (a mean present).

Ollaris Deus. (a man respected for his profession

withowt woorth in himself).

In foribus Vrceus; an earthen pott in the threshold

Numerus

_Folio 98, back_.

To drawe of the dregges

Lightenyng owt of a payle

Durt tramped w'th bloude.

Ni pater esses

Vates secum auferat omen.

In eo ipso stas lapide vbj praeco praedicat, of one that

is abowt to be bowght and sold.

Lydus ostium claudit (of one that is gone away w'th

his purpose).

Vtranque paginam facit An auditors booke (of one

to whome both good and yll is imputed).

Non navigas noctu (of one that govern[s] himself

acaso [bycause] the starres which were wont to

be the shipmans direction appear but in the

night).

It smelleth of the lampe

You are in the same shippe

Between the hamer and the Andville

Res est in cardine

Vndarum in vinis

Lepus pro carnibus (of a man persecuted for profite

and not for malice).

Corpore effugere

Nunquid es saul inter prophetas

A dog in the manger

[Greek: Oaekonous] (a howsedowe a dedman).

_Folio 99, front_.

Officere luminibus

I may be in their light but not in their way.

Felicibus sunt et timestres liberj.

To stumble at the threshold

Aquilae senectus

Of the age now they make popes of

Nil ad Parmenonis suem

Aquila in nubibus (a thing excellent but remote).

Mox Sciemus melius vate

In omni fabula et Daedali execratio (of one made a

party to all complaintes).

Semper tibj pendeat hamus.

Res redit ad triarios.

Tentantes ad trojam pervenere greci

Cignea cantio

To mowe mosse (vnseasonable taking of vse or

profite).

Ex tripode

Ominabitur aliquis te conspecto.

He came of an egge

Leporem comedit

_Folio 99, back_.

H [Greek: Ae tan ae epi tun]

Dormientis rete trahit

Vita doliaris

He castes another mans chaunces.

I neuer liked proceeding vpon Articles before bookes

nor betrothinges before mariages.

Lupus circa puteum chorum agit

The woolue danceth about the welle.

Spem pretio emere

Agricola semper in nouum annam diues.

To lean to a staffe of reed

fuimus Troes.

Ad vinum disertj.

To knytt a rope of sand.

Pedum visa est via

Panicus casus

Penelopes webb

[Greek: skiamachein]

To striue for an asses shade

Laborem serere.

Hylam inclamat.

[Greek: theomachein]

To plowe the wyndes

Actum agere

Versuram soluere To euade by a greater mischeef.

Bulbos querit (of those that looke downe

Between the mowth and the morsell).

A Buskin (that will serve both legges

not an indifferent man but a dowble spye).

_Folio 100, front_.

Chameleon Proteus, Euripus.

Mu[l]ta novit uulpes sed Echinus unum magnum

Semper Africa aliquid monstrj parit

Ex eodem ore calidum et frigidum.

Ex se finxit velut araneus

Laqueus laqueum cepit.

Hinc ille lachrime; Hydrus in dolio

Dicas tria ex Curia (liberty vpon dispaire)

Argi Collis (a place of robbing).

Older then Chaos.

Samiorum flores

A bride groomes life

Samius comatus (of one of no expectacion and great

proof).

Adonis gardens (thinges of great pleasure but soone

fading).

Que sub axillis fiunt.

In crastinum seria.

To remooue an old tree

[Greek: Kymakophon] (of one that fretteth and vaunteth

boldnesse to vtter choler).

To bite the br[i]dle

Lesbia regula.

Vnguis in vlcere

To feed vpon musterd

In antro trophonij (of one that neuer laugheth).

Arctum annulum ne gestato.

_Folio 100, back_.

Areopagita; Scytala.

Cor ne edito.

Cream of Nectar

Promus magis quam Condus.

He maketh to deep a furrowe

Charons fares

Amazonum cantile[n]a; The Amazons song

(Delicate persons).

To sow curses.

To quench fyre with oyle

Ex ipso boue lora sumere.

Mala attrahens ad se vt Cesias nubes

Pryauste gaudes gaudium.

Bellerophontis literae (producing lettres or evidence

against a mans self).

Puer glaciem.

To hold a woolf by the ears

fontibus apros, floribus austrum

Softer then the lippe of the ear

More tractable then wax

Aurem vellere.

[Greek: Aeeritrimma]; frippon

To picke owt the Ravens eyes.

Centones

Improbitas musce (an importune that wilbe soone

awnswered but straght in hand agayne).

Argentangina, sylver mumpes

Lupi illum videre priores

Dorica musa.

To looke a gyven horse in the mowth.

_Folio 101, front_.

Vlysses pannos exuit.

fatis imputandum

Lychnobij

Terrae filius

Hoc jam et vates sciunt

Whear hartes cast their hornes

few dead byrdes fownd.

Prouolvitur ad milvios (a sickly man gladd of the

spring).

Amnestia

Odi memorem compotorem.

Delius natator.

Numeris platonis obscurius

Dauus sum non Oedipus

Infixo aculeo fugere

Genuino mordere.

Ansam quaerere.

Que sunt apud inferos sermones.

Et Scellij filium abominor (of him that cannot

endure the sound of a matter; from Aristocrates

Scellius sonne, whome a man deuoted to a

democracy said he could not abide for the

nearnesse of his name to an Aristocracy).

Water from the handes (such doctrynes as are

polluted by custome).

_Folio 101, back_.

famis campus an yll horse kept

The thredd is sponne now nedes the neadle

quadratus homo. a Cube.

fenum habet in Cornu.

Armed intreaty.

Omnia secunda saltat senex.

[Greek: theon cheires]

Mopso Nisa datur

Dedecus publicum.

Riper then a mulbery.

Tanquam de Narthecio

Satis quercus; Enowgh of Acornes.

Haile of perle.

Intus canere.

Symonidis Cantilena.

Viam qui nescit ad mare

Alter Janus.

To swyme withowt a barke

An owles egg.

Shake another tree

E terra spectare naufragia

In diem vivere

Vno die consenescere.

[Greek: Porro dios te K[a]i keraunou]

Servire scenae.

Omnium horarum homo

Spartae servi maxime servi

Non sum ex istis heriobus (_sic_) (potentes ad

nocendum)

_Folio 101, back--continued_.

Scopae dissolute

Clavum clauo pellere

Extra querere sese

_Folio 102, front_.

Cumjnj sector

Laconice lunae.

Coruus aquat.

Ne incalceatus in montes.

Domj Milesia

Sacra hec non aliter constant.

Gallus insistit

Leonis vestigia quaeris (ostentation with couardize)

fumos vendere

Epiphillides.

Calidum mendacium optimum

Solus Currens vincit.

Vulcaneum vinclum.

Salt to water (whence it came).

Canis seviens in lapidem

Aratro iacularj.

Semel rubidus decies pallidus.

Tanto buon che ual niente

So good, as he is good for nothing.

The crowe of the bellfry.

The vinegar of sweet wyne.

En vne nuit naist vn champignon.

He hath more to doe then the ovens in Christmas.

piu doppio ch' una zevola

Il cuopre vn altare & discuopre l' altro

He will hide himself in a mowne medowe

Il se crede segnar & se da de dettj ne gli occhi

He thinkes to blesse himself and thrustes his fingers into his eyes

_Folio 102, back_.

He is gone like a fay withowt his head

La sopra scritta e buona

La pazzia li fa andare |

La vergogna li fa restare |

Mangia santj & caga Diauolj.

Testa digiuna, barba pasciuta.

L'asne qui porte le vin et boit l'eau

lyke an ancher that is euer in the water and will

neuer learn to swyme

He doth like the ape that the higher he clymbes the

more he shews his ars.

Se no va el otero a Mahoma vaya Mahoma al otero.

Nadar y nadar y ahogar a la orilla

llorar duelos agenos

Si vos sabes mucho tambien se yo mi salm [o?]

Por hazer mi miel comieron mj muxcas

Come suol d'Invierno quien sale tarde y pone presto.

Lo que con el ojo veo con el dedo lo adeuino

Hijo no tenemos y nombre lo ponemos.

Por el buena mesa y mal testamento.

Era mejor lamiendo que no mordiendo

Perro del hortelano

Despues d'yo muerto ni vinna ni huerto

Perdj mj honor hablando mal y oyendo peor

Tomar asino que me lleue y no cauallo que me derruque.

_Folio 103, front_.

So many heades so many wittes

Happy man happy dole

In space cometh grace

Nothing is impossible to a willing hand

Of two ylles chuze the lest.

Better to bow then to breake

Of suffrance cometh ease

Two eyes are better then one.

Leaue is light

Better vnborn then vntaught.

All is well that endes well

Of a good begynyng comes a good ending

Thinges doone cannot be vndoone

Pride will haue a fall

Some what is better then nothing

Better be envyed then pytied

Every man after his fashon

He may doe much yll ere he doe much woorse

We be but where we were

Vse maketh mastery

Loue me lyttell love me long.

They that are bownd must obey

Foly it is to spurn against the pricke

Better sitt still then rise and fall.

Might overcomes right

No smoke w'th owt some fire

Tyme tryeth troth

Make not to sorowes of one

_Folio 103, back_.

Thear is no good accord

whear euery one would be a lord

Saieng and doing are two thinges

Better be happy then wise

Who can hold that will away

Allwaies let leasers haue their woordes

Warned and half armed

He that hath an yll name is half hanged

Frenzy Heresy and jalousy are three

That seeldome or neuer cured be

That the ey seeth not the hart rueth not

Better comyng to the ending of a feast then to the

begynyng of a fray

Yll putting a swoord in a mad mans hand

He goes farre that neuer turneth

Principium dimidium totius

Quot homines tot sententiae

Suum cujque pulchrum.

Que supra nos nihil ad nos

Ama tanquam osurus oderis tanquam amaturus.

Amicorum omnia communia

Vultu sepe leditur pietas

Fortes fortuna adjuuat.

Omne tulit punctum.

In magnis et uoluisse sat est

Difficilia quoee pulchra.

Turn tua res agitur paries cum proximus ardet

Et post malam segetem serendum est

Omnium rerum vicissitudo

_Folio 103 back--continued_.

In nil sapiendo vita jucundissima

Parturiunt montes nascetur ridiculus mus

Dulce bellum inexpertis

Naturam expellas furca licet vsque recurret.

_Folio 104, front_.

Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem

Bis dat qui cito dat

Consciencia mille testes

In vino veritas

Bonae leges ex malis moribus

Nequicquam sapit qui sibj non sapit

Summum jus summa injuria

Sera in fundo parsimonia

Optimum non nasci

Musa mihi causas memora

Longe

Ambages sed summa sequar fastigia rerum

Causasque innecte morandj

Incipit effari mediaque in voce resistit

Sensit enim simulata voce locutam

quae prima exordia sumat

Haec alternantj potior sententia visa est.

Et inextricabilis error

Obscuris vera inuolvens.

Hae tibi erunt artes

Sic genus amborum scindit se sanguine ab vno.

Varioque viam sermone leuabat

Quid causas petis ex alto fiducia cessit

Quo tibj Diua mej

Causas nequicquam nectis inanes

quid me alta silentia cogis

Rumpere et obductum verbis vulgare dolorem

Nequicquam patrias tentasti lubricus artes

Do quod uis et me victusque uolensque remitto

_Folio 104, front--continued_.

Sed scelus hoc meritj pondus et instar habet

Quaeque prior nobis intulit ipse ferat

Officium fecere pium sed invtile nobis

Exiguum sed plus quam nihil illud erit

Sed lateant vires nec sis in fronte disertus

Sit tibj credibilis sermo consuetaque verba

praesens vt videare loqui

_Folio 104, back_.

Ille referre aliter sepe solebat idem

Nec uultu destrue verba tuo

Nec sua vesanus scripta poeta legat

Ars casum simulet

Quid cum legitima fraudatur litera uoce

Blaesaque fit iusso lingua coacta sono

Sed quae non prosunt singula multa iuuant.

Sic parvis componere magna solebam

Alternis dicetis

paulo majora canamus

Non omnes arbusta iuuant

Et argutos inter strepere anser olores.

Causando nostros in longum ducis amores

Nec tibj tam sapiens quisquam persuadeat autor

Nec sum animj dubius verbis ea vincere magnum

quam sit et angustis hunc addere rebus honorem

Sic placet an melius quis habet suadere

Quamquam ridentem dicere verum

quis vetat

Sed tamen amoto quaeramus seria ludo

Posthabuj tamen illorum mea seria ludo

O imitatores seruum pecus

Quam temere in nobis legem sancimus iniquam.

mores sensusque repugnant

Atque ipsa vtilitas justj prope mater et equi

dummodo visum

Excutiat sibj non hic cuiquam parcit amico

Nescio quod meritum nugarum totus in illis

Num[22] quid vis occupo

_Folio 104, back--continued_.

Noris nos inquit doctj sumus

O te bollane cerebrj

Felicem aiebam tacitus.

_Folio 105, front_.

ridiculum acrj

Fortius et melius magnas plerunque secat res.

At magnum fecit quod verbis graeca latinis }

Miscuit o serj studiorum }

Nil ligat exemplum litem quod lite resoluit

Nimirum insanus paucis videatur eo quod }

Maxima pars hominum morbo laborat eodem }

Neu si vafer vnus et alter

Insidiatorem praeroso fugerit hamo

Aut spem deponas aut artem illusus omittas

gaudent praenomine molles }

auriculae }

Renuis tu quod jubet alter

Qui variare cupit rem prodigaliter unam.

Et adhuc sub judice lis est.

Proijcit ampullas et sesquipedalia verba

Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu

Atque ita mentitur sic veris falsa remittet

tantum series juncturaque pollet

Tantum de medio sumptis accedit honoris

Ergo fungar vice cotis acutum }

Reddere que possit ferrum exors ipsa secandj }

Haec placuit semel haec decies repetita placebit

Fas est et ab hoste docerj

Vsque adeo quod tangit idem est tamen vltima

Quis furor auditos inquit praeponere visis [distans].

Pro munere poscimus vsum

Inde retro redeunt idemque retexitur ordo

Nil tam bonum est quin male narrando possit

deprauarier

_Folio 105, back_.

Furor arma ministrat

Pulchrumque morj succurrit in armis

Aspirat primo fortuna laborj

Facilis jactura sepulchrj

Cedamus phoebo et monitj meliora sequamu[r]

Fata uiam invenient

Degeneres animos timor arguit

Viresque acquirit eundo

Et caput inter nubila condit

Et magnas territat vrbes

Tam ficti prauique tenax quam nuntia verj

Gaudens et pariter facta atque infecta canebat

Nusquam tuta fides

Et oblitos famae meliori amantes

Varium et mutabile semper

Femina

Furens quid femina possit

Quo fata trahunt retrahuntque sequamur

Quicquid id est superanda est omnis fortun[a] ferendo

Tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior i[to]

Hoc opus hic labor est

Nullj fas casto sceleratum insistere li[men]

Discite justitiam monitj.

Quisque suos patimur manes

Neu patrie validat[23] in viscera vertite vires

Verique effeta senectus.

At patiens operum paruoque assueta iuuen[tus]

Juno vires animumque ministrat

Nescia mens hominum fatj sortisque futur[ae]

Et servare modum rebus sublata secund[is]

_Folio 106, front_.

Spes sibi quisque

Nee te vllius violentia vincat

Respice res hello varias

Credidimus lachrimis an et hae simulare docentur

He quoque habent artes quaque iubentur eunt

Quaecunque ex merito spes venit equa venit

Simplicitas digna fauore fuit

Exitus acta probat careat successibus opto

Quisquis ab euentu facta notanda putet.

Ars fit vbj a teneris crimen condiscitur annis

Jupiter esse pium statuit quodcunque iunaret

Non honor est sed onus

Si qua voles apte nubere nube parj

Perdere posse sat est si quern iuuat ista potestas.

Terror in his ipso major solet esse periclo

Quaeque timere libet pertimuisse pudet

An nescis longas regibus esse manus

Vtilis interdum est ipsis injuria passis

Fallitur augurio spes bona sepe suo

Quae fecisse iuuat facta referre pudet

Consilium prudensque animj sententia jurat

Et nisi judicij vincula nulla valent

Sin abeunt studia in mores

Illa verecundis lux est praebenda puellis

Qua timidus latebras speret habere pudor

Casta est quam nemo rogauit

Quj non vult fierj desidiosus amet

Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemptis

Quern metuit quisque perisse cupit

_Folio 106, back_.

A late promus of formularies

and elegancies

Synanthr

Synanthropy

_Folio 107, front_.

He that owt leaps his strength standeth not

He keeps his grownd; Of one that speaketh certenly

& pertinently

He lighteth well; of one that concludeth his speach

well

Of speaches digressive; This goeth not to the ende

of the matter; from the lawyers,

for learnyng sake.

Mot. of the mynd explicat in woords implicat in

thowghts

I iudg best implicat in thowg. or of trial or mark

bycause of swiftnes collocat. & differe & to

make woords sequac.

_Folio 107, back_.

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_Folio 108, front_.

Vpon Impatience of Audience

Verbera sed audi. The fable of the syrenes

Auribus mederj difficillimum. Placidasque viri deus obstruit

Noluit Intelligerevt bene aures

ageret

The ey is the gate of the

affection, but the ear

of the vnderstanding

Vpon question to reward evill w'th evill

Noli aemularj in malig- Cum perverso perverteris;

nantibus lex talionis

Crowne him wth tols (?) Yow are not for this world

Nil malo quam illos simil- Tanto buon cheval niente

les esse suj et me mej

Vpon question whether a man should speak or

forbear speach

Quia tacuj inveterauerunt Obmutuj et non aperuj os

ossa mea (speach may meum quoniam tu fecistj

now & then breed It is goddes doing.

smart in y'e flesh; but Posuj custodiam Orj

keeping it in goeth to meo cum consisteret

y'e bone). peccator aduersum me.

Credidi propter quod Ego autem tanquam

locutus sum. surdus nonaudiebam et

Obmutuj et humiliatus tanquam mutus non

sum siluj etaim a bonis aperiens os suum

et dolor meus re-

nouatus est.

_Folio 108, back_.

Benedictions and maledictions

Et folium eius non defluet

Mella fluant illj ferat

et rubus asper amonium

Abominacion

Dij meliora pijs

Horresco referens

_Folio 109, front_.

Per otium To any thing impertinent.

Speech yt hangeth not together nor is concludent.

Raw sylk; sand.

Speech of good & various wayght but not neerely

applied; A great vessell yt cannot come neer

land.

Of one yt. rippeth things vp deepely. He shooteth

to high a compass to shoote neere.

Y'e law at Twicknam for mery tales

Synanthropie

_Folio 109, back_.

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_Folio 109c, front_.

[Blank]

_Folio 109d, back_.

Synanthropie

_Folio 110, front_.

Play.

The syn against y'e holy ghost termd in zeal by one

of y'e fathers

Cause of Oths; Quarells; expence & vnthriftynes;

ydlenes & indisposition of y'e mynd to labors.

Art of forgetting; cause of society acquaintance

familiarity in frends; neere & ready attendance

in servants; recreation & putting of melancholy;

Putting of malas curas & cupiditates.

Games of Actiuity & passetyme; _sleight_ of Act. of

strength quicknes; quick of y'e hand; legg, the

whole mocion; strength of arme; legge; _Of

Activity of sleight_.

Of passetyme onely; of hazard, of play mixt

Of hazard; meere hazard Cunnyng in making yor.

game; Of playe: exercise of attention;

of memory; of Dissimulacion; of discrecion;

Of many hands or of receyt; of few; of quick

returne tedious; of praesent iudgment; of

vncerten yssue.

Seuerall playes or Ideas of play.

Frank play; wary play, venturous not venturous

quick slowe;

Oversight Dotage Betts Lookers on Judgment

groome porter; Christmas; Invention for hunger

Oddes; stake; sett;

He that folowes his losses & giueth soone over at

wynnings will never gayne by play

Ludimus incauti studioque aperimur ab ipso

_Folio 110, front--continued_.

He that playeth not the begynnyng of a game well at

tick tack & y'e later end at yrish shall never

wynne

Frier Gilbert

Y'e lott; earnest in old tyme sport now as musik

owt of church to chamber

_Folio 110, back_.

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_Folio 111_.

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_Folio 112, front_.

good morow_

Good swear[24]

Good trauaile

good hast

good matens

good betymes; bonum mane

bon iouyr. Bon iour; (bridgrome).

good day to me & good morow to yow.

I haue not sayd all my prayers till I haue bid yow

good morow.

Late rysing fynding a bedde,

early risinge, summons to ryse

Diluculo surgere saluberrimum est.

Surge puer mane sed noli surgere vane.

Yow will not rise afore yor betters

(y'e sonne).

Por mucho madrugar no amanece mas ayna.

Qui a bon voisin a bon matin

(lodged next);

Stulte quid est somnus gelidae nisi mortis imago

Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt.

Albada; golden sleepe.

early vp & neuer y'e neere.

The wings of y'e mornyng.

The yowth & spring of y'e day

The Cock; The Larke.

Cowrt howres.

_Folio 112, front--continued_.

Constant; abedd when yow are bedd; & vp when

yow are vp.

Trew mens howres.

Is this your first flight x I doe not as byrds doe for

I fly owt of my feathersz Is it not a fayre one

Sweet, fresh of y'e mornyng.

I pray god your early rysing doe yow no hurt;

Amen when I vse it.

I cannot be ydle vp as yow canne.

Yow could not sleep for your yll lodging; I cannot

gett owt of my good lodginge.

Yow have an alarum in your head

Block heads & clock heads.

There is Law against lyers a bedde.

Yow haue no warrant to ly a bedde

Synce yow are not gott vp turn vp.

Hott cocckles withowt sands

god night

Well to forgett;

I wish yow may so well sleepe as yow may not fynd

yor yll lodging.

NOTE.--This folio is written in two columns. The second

column begins with the line, "I pray god your early rysing."

* * * * *

_Folio 112, back_.

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_Folio 113, front_.

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_Folio 113, back_.

fourmes & elegancyes.

_Folio 114, front_.

_Formularies Promus 27 Jan. 1595_.

Against con-} Es. conceyt of //

ceyt of diffi-}Tentantes ad Trojam peruenere Impossibili- //

culty or im-} ties & Ima- //

possibility ginations //

vt s[upra] ad id

Ess. indear- //

Abstinence}Qui in agone contendit a multis ing generali-//

negatiues } abstinet. ties & prae- //

cepts //

vt s[upra] All the commaundments nega ad id

tiue saue two ad id //

Parerga; mouente sed nil pro- ad id. and

Curious; Busy extenuating //

without jug mouentes operosities, nil ad deuises & //

ment good summam. particulars.

direction Claudus I via ad id.

vt s[upra]

[25]Direction}to give the grownd in bowling. //

generall. }

vt sup[ra] Like tempring with phisike a ad id. //

good diett much better.

Zeal affection}Omni possum in eo qui me Idea. zeal

alacrity } confortat & good affec-//

tion ye e. //

vt s[upra] Possunt quia posse videntur ad id.

vt s[upra] Exposition of Not Overweenning

but ouerwilling. ad id. //

vt s[upra] Goddes presse; Voluntaries ad id. //

detraction Chesters wytt to depraue &

otherwise not wyse [26]s. P. s. J.//

Hast In actions as in wayes the nearest Ind my stay//

ikpatience y'e fowlest

* * * * *

_Folio 114, back_.

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_Folio 115, front_.

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_Folio 115, back_.

ffrancys Dalle

fragments of Elegancyes

_Folio 116, front_.

//Quod adulationis nomine dicitur bonum quod

// obtrectationis malum.

Cujus contrarium majus; majus aut priuatio cujus

minus animis.#

//Cujus opus et uirtus majus majus cujus minus minus

//quorum cupiditates majores aut meliores,

//quorum scientiae aut artes honestiores.

//quod uir melior eligeret vt injuriam potius pati

// quam facere.

//quod manet melius quam quod transit.

//quorum quis autor cupit esse bonum, cujus horret

// malum.

//quod quis amico cupit facere bonum quod inimico

// malum.

//Diuturniora minus diuturnis

Conjugata

//quod plures eligunt potius quam quod pauciores.

//quod controuertentes dicunt bonum perinde ac omnes

quod scientes et potentes, quod judicantes.

//Quorum praemia majora, majora bona, quorum

mulctae majores, majora mala.

Quas confessis et tertijs majoribus majora.

//quod ex multis constat magis bonum cum multi

// articulj bonj dissectj magnitudinem prae se ferunt

Natiua ascitis.

//Qua supra aetatem praeter occasionem aut oportuni-

// tate praeter naturam toe; praeter conditionem

// temporis praeter naturam personae vel instru-

// mentivel iuuamentimajora quam quae secundum.

_Folio, 116 back_.

//quae in grauiore tempore vtilia vt in morbo senectute

// aut aduersis.

//Ex duobus medijs quod propinquius est fruj

//Quae tempore futuro et vltimo quia sequens tempus

// evacuat praeterita

Antiqua novis noua antiquis

Consueta nouis noua consuetis

//quod ad veritatem magis quam ad opinionem Ejus

// [27]ante, quae ad opinionem pertinet, ratio est ac

// modus, quod quis sj clam fore putaret non

// eligeret

//Polychreston vt diuitiae, robur, potentia, facultates

// animj

# Ex duobus quod tertio aequali adjunctum majus ipsa[2]

reddit

# Quae non latent cum adsunt, quam quae latere

possunt majora.

//quod magis ex necessitate vt oculus vnus lusco

//quod expertus facile reliquit

//quod quis cogitur facere malum

//quod sponte fit bonum

//quod bono confesso redimitur

* * * * *

_Folio 117, front_

In deliberatives and electives

_Folio 117, back_.

Cujus excusatio paratior est vel venia indulta inagis

minus malum.

_Folio 118, front_.

Melior est oculorum visio quam animj progressio

//Spes in dolio remansit sed non vt antedotum sed vt

// major morbus

Spes omnis in futuram vitam consumendus sufficit

praesentibus bonis purus sensus.

Spes vigilantis somnium; vitae summa breuis spem

nos uetat inchoare longam.

//Spes facit animos leues timidos inaequales

peregrinantes

//Vidi ambulantes sub sole cum adolescente secundo

// qui consurget post eum.

//Imaginationes omnia turbant, timores multiplicant

// voluptates corrumpunt.

//Anticipatio timores[28]salubris ob inventionem remedij

// spei institit[29]

Imminent futuro, ingrati in praeteritum semper

adolescentes

//Vitam sua sponte fluxam magis fluxam reddimus

per continuationes spe

Praesentia erunt futura non contra

* * * * *

_Folio 118, back_.

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_Folio 119, front_.

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_Folio 119, back_.

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_Folio 120, front_.

The fallaxes of y'e 3 and y'e assurance of Erophil.

to fall well euery waye

Watry impressions, fier elementall fier aethereall.

Y'e memory of that is past cannot be taken from him.

All 3 in purchaze nothing in injoyeng.

_Folio 120, back_.

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_Folio 121, front_.

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_Folio 121, back_.

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_Folio 122, front_.

// Quod inimicis nostris gratum est ac optabile vt

// _nobis_ eveniat malum, quod molestiae et terrorj

// est bonum.

Metuo danaos et dona ferentes

Hoc Ithacus velit et magno mercentur Atridae.

Both parties haue wyshed battaile

The Launching of y'e. Imposture by him that

intended murder.

Conciliam homines mala. a forein warre to appeas

parties at home

// Quod quis sibj tribuit et sumit bonum, quod in

// alium transfert malum

non tarn inuidiae impertiendae quam laudis com-

municandae gratia loquor.

// Quod quis facile impertit minus bonum quod quis

// paucis et grauatim impertit majus bonum

Te nunc habet ista secundum.

// Quod per ostentationem fertur bonum, quod per

// excusationem purgatur malum.

// Nescio quid peccati portet haec purgatio.

// Cuj sectae diuersae quae sibj quaeque praestantiam

// vendicat secundas tribuit melior singulis

// Secta Academicae quam Epicureus et stoicus sibi

// tantum postponit

// Neutrality.

_Folio 122, back_.

//Cujus exuperantia vel excellentia melior ejus et

// genus melius.

Bougeon de mars, enfant de paris.

Whear they take

Some thinges of lyttell valew but excellencye

Some more indifferent and after one sort.

//In quo periculosius erratur melius eo in quo erratur

// minore cum periculo.

//Quod rem integram seruat, melius eo a quo receptus

// non est potestatem enim donat potestas autem

// bonum

The tale of the frogges that were wyshed by one in

a drowth to repayre to the bottome of a well,

ay (?) but if water faile thear how shall we gett

vp agayne

//Quod polychrestum est melius quam quod ad vnum

// refertur ob incertos casus humanos.

//Cujus contrarium priuatio malum bonum cujus

// bonum malum.

//In quo non est satietas neque nimium melius eo in

// quo satietas est

//In quo vix erratur melius eo in quo error procliuis

//Finis melior ijs quae ad finem;

//Cujus causa sumptus facti et labores toleratj

// bonum; si vt euitetur malum,

//Quod habet riuales et de quo homines contendunt

// bonum; de quo non est contentio malum.

Differ, inter fruj et acquirere.

_Folio 123, front_.

// Quod laudatur et praedicatur bonum quod occultatur

// et uituperatur malum.

// Quod etiam inimicj et maleuoli laudant valde bonum,

// quod etiam amicj reprehendunt magnum malum.

Quod consulto et per meliora judicia proponitur

majus bonum.

// Quod sine mixtura malj melius quam quod refractum

// et non syncerum.

Possibile et facile bonum quod sine labore et paruo

tempore cont[ra] malum

Bona confessa jucundum sensu; comparatione.

Honor; voluptas;

Vita

bona ualetudo

suauia objecta sensuum;

Inducunt tranquillum sensum virtutes ob securitatem

et contemptum rerum humanarum; facultates

animk et rerum gerendarum ob spem et metum

subigendum; et diuiti ...

Ex aliena opinione; laus.

Quae propria sunt et minus communicata; ob honor,

quae continent, vt animalia vt plantae et amplius;

sed id amplius potest esse malj.

Congruentia, ob raritatem et genium et proprietatem

vt in familijs et professionibus

Quae sibj deesse quis putat licet sint exigua

_Folio 123, back_.

ad quae natura procliues sunt

quae nemo abjectus capax est vt faciat

Majus et continens minore et contento

Ipsum quod suj causa eligitur

quod omnia appetunt.

quod prudentiam adepti eligunt

quod efficiendi et custodiendj vim habet.

Cuj res bonae sunt consequentes.

maximum maximo ipsum ipsis; vnde exuperant ...

quae majoris bonj conficientia sunt ea majora sunt

bona.

quod propter se expetendum eo quod propter alios

Fall. in diuersis generibus et proportionibus

Finis non finis

Minus indigens eo quod magis indiget quod

paucioribus et facilioribus indiget

quoties ho (_sic_) sine illo fierj no (_sic_) potest, illud

sine hoc fierj potest illud melius

principium non principio; finis autem et principium

antitheta; non majus videtur principium quia

primum est in opere; contra finis quia primum

in mente; de perpetratore et consiliario.

Rarurn copiosis honores; mutton venison

Copiosum varit vsu: optimum aqua

difficiliora, facilioribus |

faciliora, difficilioribus |

_Folio 124, front_.

Quod magis a necessitate vt oculus vnus lusco.

Major videtur gradus priuationis quam diminutionis

Quae non latent cum adsunt majora quam que

latere possunt.

Quod expertus facile reliquit malum, quod mordicus

tenet bonum.

In aliquibus manetur quia non datur regressus

Quae in grauiore tempore vtilia vt in morbo

senectute aduersis.

The soldier like a coreselett; bellaria, et appetitiua,

redd hearing. Loue

Quod controuertentes dicunt bonum perinde ac

omnes.

Sermon frequented by papists and puritans;

Matter of circumstance not of substance

boriae penetrabile frigus adurit

Cacus oxen forwards and backwards

Not examyning.

_Folio 124, back_.

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_Folio 125, front_.

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_Folio 125, back_.

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_Folio 126, front_.

_Analogia Caesaris_

Verb. et clausalae ad

exercitationem accentus

et ad gratiam sparsam

et ad suitatem

Sat that; (for admitt that) It is like Sr. etc. putting

Peradventure can yow: sp. a man agayne into his

(what can yow) tale interruted

So much there is. fr.(neuer- Your reason

thelesse) I haue been allwaies at

See then bow. Sp. (Much his request;

lesse) His knowledg lieth about

Yf yow be at leasure fur- him

nyshed etc. as perhappes Such thoughts I would

yow are (in stead of are exile into into my

not) dreames

For the rest (a transition A good crosse poynt but

concluding) the woorst cinq a pase

The rather bycause con-

tynuing anothers speach He will never doe his tricks

To the end, sauing that,

whereas yet (contynu- A proper young man and

ance) and so of all kynds so will he be while he liues

In contemplation (in con- 2 of these fowre take them

sideracon) where yow will

Not praejudicing. I have knowne the tyme

With this (cum hoc quod and it was not half an

verificare vult) howre agoe

Without that (adsque hoc Pyonner in the myne of

quod) truth

_Folio 126, front--continued_.

for this tyme (when a man As please the painter

extends his hope or imag- A nosce teipsum (a chiding

inacion or beleefe to farre) or disgrace)

A mery world when such Valew me not y'e lesse by-

fellowes must correct cause I am yours.

(A mery world when the

simplest may correct).

Is it a small thing yt & (can

not yow not be content)

an hebraisme

What els? Nothing lesse.

It is not the first vntruth I

have heard reported nor

it is not y'e first truth I

haue heard denied.

I will prooue X

why goe and prooue it

Minerallwyttsstrongpoyson

yf they be not corrected.

O the'

O my I. St.

Beleeue it

Beleeue it not;

for a time

Mought it pleas god that

fr (I would to god) Neuer

may it please yow

As good as the best:

I would not but yow had

doone it (But shall I doe

it againe)

* * * * *

NOTE.--This folio is written in three columns. The third column begins,

"It is a small thing."

_Folio 126, back_.

The sonne of some what y'e ayre of his behauior;

factious;

To frime (to Sp)[30]

Sp

To cherish or endear;

To vndeceyue. Sp to dis-

abuse

deliuer and vnwrapped

To discount (To Cleere)

Brazed (impudent

Brawned Seared) vn-

payned.

Vuelight (Twylight) band-

ing (factions).

Remoouing (remuant)

A third person (a broker)

A nose Cutt of; tucked vp.

His disease hath certen

traces

To plaine him on

Ameled (fayned counterfett)

in y'e best kynd.

Having (?) the vpper

grownd (Awthority)

His resorts (his Conceyts)

It may be well last for it

hath lasted well

Those are great with yow

y't are great by yow

* * * * *

_Folio 126, back--continued_.

The Avenues; A back

thought.

Baragan; perpetuo Juuenis

A Bonance (a Caulme)

To drench to potion (to

insert)

Haggard insauvaged

Infistuled (made hollow

with malign deales).

_Folio 127, front_.

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_Folio 127, back_.

Cursitours lament and cry

[31]Verba interjectiua siue ad

gratiam sparsam

_Folio 128, front_.

Semblances or popularities of good and evill w'th

their redargutions for Deliberacions

Cujus contrarium malum bonum, cujus bonum

malum.

Non tenet in ijs rebus quarum vis in temperamento

et mensura sita est.

Dum vitant stulti vitia in contraria currunt

X Media via nulla est quae nee amicos parit nee inimi-

cos tollit

Solons law that in states every man should declare

him self of one faction. Neutralitye:

Vtinam esses calidus aut frigidus sed quoniam tepidus

es eveniet vt te expuam ex ore meo.

Dixerunt fatui medium tenuere beatj

Cujus origo occasio bona, bonum; cujus mala malum.

Non tenet in ijs malis quae vel mentem informant,

vel affectum corrigunt, siue resipiscentiam in-

ducendo siue necessitatem, nec etiam in fortuitis.

No man gathereth grapes of thornes nor figges of

thistelles

The nature of every thing is best consydered in the

seed

Primum mobile turnes about all y'e rest of y'e Orbes.

A good or yll foundacion.

X Ex malis moribus bonae leges.

[Greek: pathaemata maaemata]

When thinges are at the periode of yll they turn

agayne

_Folio 128, front--continued_.

Many effectes like the serpent that deuoureth her

moother so they destroy their first cause as

inopia luxuria etc.

The fashon of D. Hert. to the dames of Lond. Your

way is to be sicker

Usque adeo latet vtilitas

Aliquisque malo fuit vsus in illo

_Folio 128, back_.

Quod ad bonum finem dirigitur bonum, quod ad

mulum malum

_Folio 129 front_.

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_Folio 129 back_.

Philologia

colors of good and euill

_Folio 130 front_.

Some choice Frensh Proverbes.

II a chie en son chapeau et puis s'en va couvert

Par trop debatre la verite se perd.

Apres besogne fait le fou barguine.

L'hoste et le poisson passes trois jours puent.

Le mort n'ha point d'amis, Le malade et l'absent

qu'vn demye.

II est tost trompe qui mal ne pense.

La farine du diable s'en va moitie en son.

Qui prest a l'ami, perd an double.

C'est vn valett du diable, qui fait plus qu'on luy

command.

Il n'est horologe plus iust que le ventre.

Mere pitieuse, fille rigueuse

II commence bien a mourrir qui abandonne son desir.

Chien qui abaye de loin ne mord pas.

Achete maison faite, femme a faire

Le riche disne quand il veut, le poure quand il peut.

Bien part de sa place qui son amy y lesse.

Il n'y a melieur mirroir que le vieil amy.

Amour fait beaucoup, mais l'argent fait tout.

L'amour la tousse et la galle ne se peuvent celer.

Amour fait rage, mais l'argent fait marriage.

Ma chemise blanche, baise mon cul tous les

dimanches.

Mieux vaut vn tenes, que deux fois l'aurez.

Craindre ce qu'on peut vaincre, est vn bas courage.

A folle demande il ne faut point de responce.

_Folio 130, front--continued_.

Qui manie ses propres affaires, ne souille point se

mains.

Argent receu les bras rompus.

Vn amoreux fait touiours quelque chose folastre.

Le povre qui donne au riche demande

Six heures dort l'escholier, sept y'e voyager, huict y'e

vigneron, et neuf en demand le poltron.

La guerre fait les larrons et la paix les meine au

gibbett

Au prester couzin germaine, au rendre fils de putaine

Qui n'ha point du miel en sa cruche, qu'il en aye en

sa bouche.

Langage de Hauts bonnetts.

Les paroles du soir ne sembles a celles du matin.

Qui a bon voisin a bon matin.

Estre en la paille jusque an ventre.

Il faut prendre le temps comme il est, et les gens

comme ils sont.

Il n'est Tresor que de vivre a son aise.

La langue n'a point d'os, et casse poitrine et dos.

Quand la fille pese vn auque, ou luy peut mettre

la coque.

Il en tuera dix de la chandelle, et vingt du chandelier.

_Folio 130, back_.

Qui seme de Chardons recuielle des espines

Il n'est chasse que de vieux levriers.

Qui trop se haste en beau chemin se fourvoye.

Il ne choisit pas qui emprunt.

Ostez vn vilain an gibett, il vous y mettra.

Son habit feroit peur an voleur.

J'employerai verd et sec.

Tost attrappe est le souris, qui n'a pour tout qu'vn

pertuis.

Le froid est si apre, qu'il me fait battre le tambour

avec les dents.

Homme de deux visages, n'aggree en ville ny en

villages.

Perdre la volee pour le bound.

Homme roux et femme barbue de cinquante pas

les salue.

Quand beau vient sur beau il perd sa beaute.

Les biens de la fortune passe comme la lune.

Ville qui parle, femme qui escoute, I'vne se prend,

lautre se foute.

Coudre le peau du renard, a celle du lyon.

Il a la conscience large comme la manche d'vn

cordelier.

Brusler la chandelle par les deux bouts.

Bon bastard c'est d'avanture, meschant c'est la

nature.

Argent content portent medecine.

Bonne renommee vaut plus que cincture doree.

_Folio 130, back--continued_.

Fille qui prend, se vend; fille qui donne s'abban-

donne.

Fais ce que tu dois, avien que pourra.

Il est tost deceu qui mal ne pense.

Vos finesses sont cousues de fil blanc, elles sont trop

apparentes.

Assez demand qui se plaint.

Assez demand qui bien sert.

Il ne demeure pas trop qui vient a la fin.

Secrett de dieux, secrett de dieux

Ton fils repeu et mal vestu, ta fille vestue et mal

repue.

Du dire an fait il y a vn grand trait.

Courtesye tardive est discourtesye.

Femme se plaint, femme se deult, femme est

malade quand elle veut--

Et par Madame Ste. Marie, quand elle veut, elle est

guerrye.

Quie est loin du plat, est prez de son dommage.

Le Diable estoit alors en son grammaire.

Il a vn quartier de la lune en sa teste.

Homme de paille vaut vne femme d'or.

Amour de femme, feu d'estoupe.

Fille brunette gaye et nette

Renard qui dort la mattinee, n'a pas la langue

emplumee.

_Folio 131, front_.

Tout est perdu qu'on donne au fol.

Bonnes paroles n'escorche pas la langue.

Pour durer il faut endurer

Qui veut prendre vn oiseau, qu'il ne l'effarouche.

Soleil qui luise au matin, femme qui parle latin,

enfant nourri du vin ne vient point a bonne fin.

Il peut hardiment heurter a la porte, qui bonnes

novelles apporte.

A bon entendeur ne faut que demy mot.

Qui fol envoye fol attend.

La faim chaisse le loup hors du bois.

Qui pen se prize, Dieu l'advise.

En pont, en planche, en riviere, valett devant,

maistre arriere.

L'oeil du maistre engraisse le chevall.

Qui mal entend, mal respond.

Mal pense qui ne repense.

Mal fait qui ne pairfait.

Si tous les fols portoient marrottes, on ne scauroit

pas de quell bois se chaufer

Mieux vaut en paix vn oeuf, qu'en guerre vn boeuf.

Couper l'herbe sous les pieds.

Toutes les heures ne sont pas meures.

Qui vit a compte, vit a honte.

Meschante parole jettee, va par toute alia volee.

Amour se nourrit de ieune chaire

Innocence porte avec soy sa deffence.

Il ne regard plus loin que le bout de son nez.

A paroles lourdes, aureilles sourdes.

_Folio 131, front--continued_

Ce n'est pas Evangile, qu'on dit parmi la ville.

Qui n'a patience n'a rien.

De mauvais payeur, foin ou paille

En fin les renards se troue chez le pelletier.

Qui prest a l'ami perd an double

Chantez a l'asne il vous fera de petz

Mieux vault glisser du pied, que de la langue.

Tout vient a point a chi peut attendre.

Il n'est pas si fol qu'il en porte l'habit.

Il est plus fol, qui a fol sens demand.

Nul n'a trop de sens, n'y d'argent.

En seurte dort qui n'a que perdre.

Le trou trop overt sous le nez fait porter soulier

dechirez.

A laver la teste d'vn Asne, on ne perd que le temps

et la lexive.

Chi choppe et ne tombe pas adiouste a ces pas.

_Folio 131, back_.

Amour, toux et fumee, en secrett ne sont demeuree.

Il a pour chaque trou vne cheville,

Il n'est vie que d'estre content.

Si tu veux cognoistre villain, baille luy la baggette

en main.

Le boeuf sale, fait trover le vin sans chandelle.

Le sage va toujours la sonde a la main.

Qui se couche avec les chiens, se leve avec de puces.

A tous oiseaux leur nids sont beaux

Ovrage de commune, ovrage de nul.

Oy, voi, et te tais, si tu veux vivre en paix.

Rouge visage et grosse panche, ne sont signes de

penitence.

A celuy qui a son paste an four, on peut donner de

son tourteau.

Au serviteur le morceau d'honneur.

Pierre qui se remue n'accuille point de mousse

Necessite fait trotter la vieille.

Nourriture passe nature.

La mort n'espargne ny Roy ny Roc.

En mangeant l' appetit vient.

Table sans sel, bouche sans salive

Les maladyes vient a cheval, et s'en returne a pieds.

Tenez chauds le pied et la teste, an demeurant

vivez en beste.

Faillir est vne chose humaine, se repentir divine,

perseverer diabolique.

Fourmage est sain qui vient de ciche main.

_Folio 131, back--continued_.

Si tu veux engraisser promptement, mangez avec

faim, bois a loisir et lentement.

A l'an soixante et douse, temps est qu'on se house.

Vin sur laict c'est souhait, lait sur vin c'est venin

Faim fait disner passetemps souper.

Le maux terminans en ique, font an medecine la

nique.

Au morceau restiffe esperon de vin.

Vn oeuf n'est rien, deux font grand bien, trois c'est

assez, quattre c'est fort, cinque c'est la mort.

Apres les poire le vin ou le prestre

Qui a la sante est riche et ne le scait pas.

A la trogne on cognoist l'yvrogne.

Le fouriere de la lune a marque le logis.

Vne pillule fromentine, vne dragme sermentine, et la

balbe[32] d'vne galline est vne bonne medecine.

Il faut plus tost prendre garde avec qui tu bois et

mange, qu'a ce que tu bois et mange.

Qui tout mange le soir, le lendemain rogne son pain

noir

Vin vieux, amy vieux, et or vieux sont amez en

tous lieux.

* * * * *

_Folio 132, front_.

Qui veut vivre sain, disne pen et soupe moins.

Lever a six, manger a dix, souper a six, coucher a

dix, font l'homme vivre dix fois dix.

De tous poissons fors que la tenche, prenez les dos,

lessez le ventre.

Qui couche avec la soif, se leve avec la sante.

Amour de garze et saut de chien, ne dure si l'on ne

dit tien.

Il en est plus assotte qu'vn fol de sa marotte.

Qui fol envoye fol attende.

Pennache de boeuf.

Vn Espagnol sans Jesuite est comme perdis sans

orange.

C'est la maison de Robin de la vallee, ou il y a ny

pott an feu, ny escuelle lavee.

Celuy gouverne bien mal le miel qui n'en taste.

Auiourdhuy facteur, demaine fracteur.

II est crotte en Archidiacre.

Apres trois jours on s'ennuy, de femme, d'hoste, et

de pluye.

Il n'est pas eschappe qui son lien traine.

En la terre des aveugles, le borgne est Roy.

Il faut que la faim soit bien grande, quand les

loups mange l'vn l'autre.

Il n'est[33] faut qu'vne mouche luy passe, par devant le

nez, pour le facher.

La femme est bien malade, quand elle ne se peut

tenir sur le dos.

* * * * *

_Folio 132, front--continued_.

Il n'a pas bien assise ses lunettes.

Cette flesche n'est pas sorti de son carquois.

L'affaire vas a quattre roues

Merchand d'allumettes

C'est vn marchand qui prend l'argent sans center

ou peser.

Je vous payeray en monnoye de cordelier.

Vous avez mis le doit dessus.

S'embarquer sans bisquit.

Coucher a l'enseigne de l'estoile

On n'y trove ny trie ny troc.

Cecy n'est pas de mon gibier.

Joyeux comme sourris en graine

Il a beaucoup de grillons en la teste.

Elle a son Cardinall

Il est fourni du fil et d'esguille.

Chevalier de Corneuaille.

Angleterre le Paradis de femmes, le pourgatoire de

valetts, l'enfer de chevaux.

Le mal An entre en nageant.

Qui a la fievre an Mois de May, le rest de l'an vit

sain et gay.

Fol a vint cinque carrattes

Celuy a bon gage du Chatte qui en tient la peau.

Il entend autant comme truye en espices

Nul soulas humaine sans helas

In (_sic_) n'est pas en seurete qui ne mescheut onques.

_Folio 133, front_.

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_Folio 133, back_.

Some choice Frensh Prover[bs.]

[Illustration: Tail Piece from Spencer's "Faerie Queen." 1617]

FOOTNOTES.

[1] Digges really means "When Time dissolves thy Stratford Mask".

[2] Through the whole play the fact that Puntarvolo represents Bacon is

continually apparent to the instructed reader. Note especially Act II.,

Scene 3, where Puntarvolo addresses his wife, who appears at a window,

in a parody of the address of Romeo to Juliet. Again in Act II., Scene 3,

Carlo Buffone calls Puntarvolo "A yeoman pheuterer." Pheuter or feuter

means a rest or supportfor a spear--which is informing.

[3] This fact so puzzling to Halliwell-Phillipps is fully explained when

it is realised that William Shackspere of Stratford could neither read

or write.

[4] The words attriuted to Apollo, are of course spoken by his Chancellor

Bacon. See note on the number 33 on page 112.

[5] While I am perfectly satisfied that the above explanation of the

meaning of the expression "All numbers" is the correct one; I am not

unaware that at the date at which the Discoveries appeared "All numbers"

would be generally understood in its classical sense; Jonson of course

not being permitted to speak too plainly. He was foreman of Bacon's good

pens and one of his "left-hands"; as any visitor to Westminster Abbey may

learn, the attendants there being careful to point out that the sculptor

has "accidentally" clothed Jonson's Bust in a left-handed coat. (With

respect to the meaning of this the reader is referred to Plate 33, page

131.) Thus far was written and in print when the writer's attention was

called to the Rev. George O Neill's little brochure, "Could Bacon have

written the plays?" in which in a note to page 14 we find "Numeri" in

Latin, "numbers" in English, applied to literature mean nothing else

than verse, and even seem to exclude prose. Thus Tibullus writes,

"_Numeris ille hic pede libero scribit_" (one writes in verse another in

prose), and Shakespeare has the same antithesis in "Love's Labour Lost"

(iv., 3), "These numbers I will tear and write in prose." Yet all this

does not settle the matter, for "Numeri" is also used in the sense

merely of "parts". Pliny speaks of a prose work as perfect in all its

parts, "_Omnibus numeris absolutus_," and Cicero says of a plan of life,

"_Omnes numeros virtutis continet_" (it contains every element of

virtue). So that Jonson may have merely meant to say in slightly

pedantic phrase that Bacon had passed away all parts fulfilled.

[6] Under what is now known as "Rask's law" the Roman F becomes B in the

Teutonic languages: fero, bear; frater, brother; feru, brew; flo, blow,

etc., etc., shewing that the Roman F was by no means really a mute.

[7] See Page 104.

[8] The number 33 too obviously represented Bacon, and therefore 53

which spells sow (S 18, O 14, W 21 = 53) was substituted for 33. Scores

of examples can be found where on page 53 some reference is made to

Bacon in books published under various names, especially in the Emblem

Books. In many cases page 55 is _misprinted_ as 53. In the Shakespeare

Folio 1623 on the first page 53 we read "Hang Hog is latten for Bacon,"

and on the second page 53 we find "Gammon of Bacon." When the seven

extra plays were added in thethird folio 1664 in each of the two new

pages 53 appears "St. Albans." In the fifth edition, published by Kowe

in 1709, on page 53 we read "deeper than did ever Plummet sound I'll

drown my Book"; and on page 55 _misprinted_ 53 (the only mispagination

in the whole book of 3324 pages) we find "I do ... require My Dukedom of

thee, which perforce I know Thou must restore." In Bacon's "Advancement

of Learning," first English edition, 1640, on page 55 _misprinted_ 53 in

the margin in capital letters (the only name in capital letters in the

whole book) we read "BACON." In Florio's "Second Frutes," 1591, on page

53, is "slice of bacon" and also "gammon of bakon," to shew that Bacon

may be misspelled as it is in Drayton's "Polyolbion," 1622, where on

page 53 we find _Becanus_. A whole book could be filled with similar

instances.

[9] About A.D. 1300 benefit of clergy was extended to all males who

could read. In 1487 it was enacted that mere laymen should have the

benefit only once and should be branded on the thumb to shew they had

once had it. _Whimsies_, 1623, p. 69, tells us: "If a prisoner, by help

of a compassionate prompter, hack out his neck verse (Psalm li. _v_. i

in Latin) and be admitted to his clergy, the jailors have a cold iron

in store if his purse be hot, but if not, a hot iron that his fist may

_Fiz_." Benefit of clergy was not totally abolished till 1827.

[10] In 1599 Sir John Hayward, LL.D., brought out "The Life and raigne of

King Henrie IIII extending to the end of the first yeare of his raigne."

This little book contains an account of the trial of Richard II., and was

dedicated to the Earl of Essex in very encomiastic terms. It irritated

Queen Elizabeth in the highest degree, and she clapped Hayward into

prison and employed Sir Francis Bacon to search his book for treason.

(Lowndes, Bohn, p. 1018). The story carefully read reveals the fact that

it was really the play rather than the book which enraged Queen Elizabeth.

[11] The appearance of Shakespeare's name in the list of Actors in Ben

Jonson's plays and in the plays known as Shakespeare's was, of course,

part of the plot to place Shakespeare's name in a prominent position

while the pseudonym had to be preserved.

[12] Facsimiles of law clerks' writing of the name "John Shakespeare,"

are given in Plate 40, Page 169. They are taken from Halliwell-Phillipps'

"Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare," 1889, vol. 2, pp. 233 and 236. In

the first two examples the name is written "Shakes," followed by an

exactly similar scroll and dash to complete the name. In Saunders'

"Ancient Handwriting," 1909, page 24, we are shown that such a "scroll

and dash" represents "per" "par," and "por"; and in Wright's "Court

Handwriting restored" we find that in the most perfectly formed script

a "p" with a dash through the lower part similarly represented "per,"

"par," and "por," this is repeated in Thoyts' "How to decipher and study

old documents," and the same information is given in numerous other

works. There is therefore no possible excuse for Dr. Wallace's blundering.

[13] A facsimile example of the way in which the law clerk wrote "Shaxper"

is shewn in the third line of Plate 40, Page 169, where it will be seen

that the writer uses a similar "X".

[14] Holinshed's Chronicles (1557) state that "Montioy, king-at-arms,

was sent to the King of England to defie him as the enemie of France,

and to tell him that he should shortlie have battell." Moreover,

"Montioy" is not the personal name, but the official title of a Herald

of France, just as "Norroy" is not a personal name, but the official

title of one of the three chief Heralds of the College of Arms of

England.

[15] He never was a manager.

[16] From the Introduction of "The Famous Historie of Troylus and

Cresseid, by William Shakespeare," 1609. This play as the above

Introduction says was never acted.

[17] 'well' has been struck out.

[18] 'Quin,' this may be 'quis.'

[19] This is difficult to read. It may be "faciunt et tedia funera."

[20] This is difficult to read. It may be "fero danid es."

[21] "Sedeant." This word is doubtful. It may be "tedeant," "te deum" is

not an impossible reading.

[22] "Num" may by read as "Nunc."

[23] "Validat" may be read "Validas".

[24] "Swear," this may be read "Sweat."

[25] The side note "Direction generall" has been struck out in the MS.

[26] s. P. s. J. may be read s R s. f.

[27] "ante," this may be read "aute" = "autem." 2 "ipsa" this may be

read "ipsu"--"ipsum".

[28] "Timores" may be read "timoris".

[29] "Institit" = insistit.

[30] "To frime (to Sp." this line may read, "To trime) to Suse Sp."

[31] [This is an endorsement across the page.]

[32] "balbe" may be read "balle."

[33] For "Il n'est faut" may be read "Il n'en faut."