[333] “Decline and Fall,” &c., vii. 11 n (Bury’s ed.).
[334] “Roger Bacon,” in Ency. Brit., by Professor Adamson.
[335] “Quand le sens littéral est absurde, incohérent ou obscur ... on doit présumer un sens détourné.”—Langlois et Seignobos, Introd. aux Études Historiques, p. 127.
[336] “Vulgus (arcana sapientiæ) capere non potest, sed deridet et (abutitur) in sui et sapientum dispendium et gravamen. Quia non sunt margaritæ sapientiæ spargendæ inter porcos.”—Compendium Studii, p. 416.
[337] “Vulgus deridet sapientes, et negligit secreta sapientiæ, et nescit uti rebus dignissimis; atque si aliquid magnificum in ejus notitiam cadat a fortuna, illud pervertit et eo abutitur in damnum multiplex personarum et communitatis.”—De Secretis, cap. viii.
[338] “Insanus est qui aliquid secretum scribit nisi ut a vulgo celetur, et ut vix a studiosissimis et sapientibus possit intilligi.”—Ib.
[339] “Multa mala sequuntur eum qui revelat secreta.”—De Secretis, cap. viii.
[340] Jonson’s “Alchemist,” Act II.
[341] “Cipher” in Rees’ “Cyclopædia” and Klüber’s Kryptographik Lehrbuch, Tübingen, 1809. In a note to these chapters in the Theatricum Chemicum, Zetzner says: “Hic tamen jacta esse Steganographiæ fundamenta certissimum est.”
[342] “Tonitruum et coriscationem.”