Cuff replied,'My lord, you leave out the former part of the verse[666], which you should have repeated,
Acteon ego sum'—
reflecting on his being a cuckold.
[667]The world expected from him a commentary on Littleton's Tenures; and he left them his Common-place book, which is now so much made use of.
Sir Edward Coke did envie[668] Sir Francis Bacon, and was wont to undervalue his lawe: vide de hoc in the lord Bacon's lettres, where he expostulates this thing with Sir Edward Coke, and tells him that he may grow when that others doe stand at a stay.
Memorandum:—he was of Clifford's Inne before he was of the Inner Temple, as the fashion then was first to be of an Inne of Chancery.
Memorandum:—when the play called Ignoramus (made by one Ruggle of Clare-hall) was acted with great applause before King James, they dressed Sir Ignoramus like Chief Justice Coke and cutt his beard like him and feigned his voyce. Mr. Peyton, our vicar of Chalke, was then a scholar at Kings College and sawe it. This drollery did ducere in seria mala: it sett all the lawyers against the clergie, and shortly upon this Mr. Selden wrote of Tythes not jure divino.
Notes.
[CK] Aubrey gives in trick the coat:—--'..., 3 eagles displayed ...'