Bacon's Essays (Vol. viii., p. 143.).—Bacon's Essay VII.: "Optimum elige," &c. Pythagoras, in Plutarch de Exilio.—Essay XV.: "Dolendi modus," &c. Plin., lib. viii. ep. 17. fin.
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"Exiguum est." &c. (Vol. viii., p. 197.).—"Exiguum est ad legem bonum esse." Vide Senec. de Ira, ii. 27.
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Muffs worn by Military Men on a March (Vol. viii., p. 281.).—In the year 1592 the Duke of Nevers was despatched by Henry IV. with all speed to a place called Bully, in order to cut off the retreat of the Duke of Guise, lately defeated near Bures. Sully speaks of him thus:
"The Duke of Nevers, the slowest of men, began by sending to make choice of the most favourable roads, and marched with a slow pace towards Bully, with his hands and his nose in his muff, and his whole person well packed up in his coach."—Memoirs of Sully, vol. i. p. 235., English edit., Edinburgh, 1773.
Francis John Scott.
Tewkesbury.
"Earth says to Earth" (Vol. vii., pp. 498. 576.).—A fac-simile of these lines, discovered in the chapel of the Guild of the Holy Cross at Stratford-on-Avon (with many other curious plates), may be seen in Fisher's Illustrations of the Paintings, &c., edited by J. G. Nichols, Esq., and published in 1802, and afterwards continued.
Erica speaks of "Weaver's" Account. Unless this is a misprint for "Wheler's" (Account of Stratford-on-Avon), perhaps he will oblige me with the full title of Weaver's work.