[22] With a great belly. Comes de Schortenhien.
[23] “In all things I have a better wit and courage than good fortune.”
[24a] “The rich soil exhausts; but labour itself is an aid.”
[24b] “And the gesticulation is vile.”
[25a] “An end is to be looked for in every man, an animal most prompt to change.”
[25b] Arts are not shared among heirs.
[31a] “More loquacious than eloquent; words enough, but little wisdom.”—Sallust.
[31b] Repeated in the following Latin. “The best treasure is in that man’s tongue, and he has mighty thanks, who metes out each thing in a few words.”—Hesiod.
[31c] Vid. Zeuxidis pict. Serm. ad Megabizum.—Plutarch.
[32a] “While the unlearned is silent he may be accounted wise, for he has covered by his silence the diseases of his mind.”