"As Machiavel noteth well, when princes, that ought to be common parents,
make themselves as a party," &c.] Perhaps Lord Bacon alludes to _Disc._
iii. 27.
"As Tacitus expresseth it well, 'Liberius quam ut imperantium
meminissent.'"] Mr. Markby is at a loss to trace this quotation. I am
unable to assist him.
The verses of Lucan are quoted from memory. The original has, "Avidumque
in tempora," and "Et concussa fides."
"Dolendi modus, timendi non item."] Query, Whence are these words taken?
"Solvam cingula regum."] Mr. Markby refers to Job xii. 18.; but the
passage alluded to seems to be Isaiah xlv. 1.
The story of Epimetheus is differently applied in _Sap. Vet._, vol. x. p.
342.
The saying of Cæsar on Sylla is inserted in the _Apophthegms_, No. 135.
p. 379. That of Galba is likewise to be found in Suet. _Galb._ 16.
Essay XVI. Of Atheism.--See _Antitheta_, No. 13. vol. viii. p. 360.
"Who to him is instead of a god, or melior natura."] From Ovid, _Met._ 1.
21. "Hanc deus et melior litem natura diremit."
Essay XVII. Of Superstition.--See _Antitheta_, No. 13. vol. viii. p. 360.
Essay XIX. Of Empire.--See _Antitheta_, No. 8. vol. viii. p. 358.
"And the like was done by that league, which Guicciardini saith was the
security of Italy," &c.] The league alluded to, is that of 1485. See
Guicciardini, lib. i. c. 1.
"Neither is the opinion of some of the school-men to be received, that a
war cannot justly be made but upon a precedent injury or provocation."]
Grotius lays down the same doctrine as Bacon, _De J. B. et P._, ii. 1. §§
2, 3. Query, What school-men are here referred to?
Essay XX. Of Counsel.--See _Antitheta_, No. 44. vol. viii. p. 377.
Jupiter and Metis.] See _Sap. Vet._, vol. xi. p. 354.
"For which inconveniences, the doctrine of Italy, and practice of France,
in some kings' times, hath introduced cabinet councils: a remedy worse
than the disease." By "cabinet councils" are here meant private meetings
of selected advisers in the king's own apartment.
"Principis est virtus maxima nosse suos."] From Martial, viii. 15.
"It was truly said, '_Optimi consiliarii mortui._'"] Compare
_Apophthegms_, No. 105.: "Alonzo of Arragon was wont to say of himself,
that he was a great necromancer; for that he used to ask counsel of the
dead, meaning books."
Essay XXI. Of Delays.--See _Antitheta_, No. 41. vol. viii. p. 376.
"Occasion (as it is in the common verse) turneth a bald noddle," &c.] See
"N. & Q.," Vol. iii., pp. 8. 43., where this saying is illustrated.