[307] A liquid matter of a pungent smell, extracted from a portion of the body of the beaver. [308] “Partakers of cares.” [309] Plutarch (_Vit. Pomp._ 19) relates that Pompey said this upon Sylla’s refusal to give him a triumph. [310] Plut. Vit. J. Cæs. 64. [311] Cic. Philip. xiii. 11. [312] “These things, by reason of our friendship, I have not concealed _from you_.”—Vide _Tac. Ann._ iv. 40. [313] Dio Cass. lxxv. [314] Such infamous men as Tiberius and Sejanus hardly deserve this commendation. [315] Philip de Comines. [316] Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, the valiant antagonist of Louis XI. of France. De Comines spent his early years at his court, but afterwards passed into the service of Louis XI. This monarch was notorious for his cruelty, treachery, and dissimulation, and had all the bad qualities of his contemporary, Edward IV. of England, without any of his redeeming virtues. [317] Pythagoras went still further than this, as he forbade his disciples to eat flesh of any kind whatever. See the interesting speech which Ovid attributes to him in the fifteenth book of the Metamorphoses. Sir Thomas Browne, in his Pseudoxia (_Browne’s Works_, Bohn’s Antiq. ed. vol. i. p. 27, _et seq._), gives some curious explanations of the doctrines of this philosopher.—_Plut. de Educat. Puer._ 17. [318] Tapestry. Speaking hypercritically, Lord Bacon commits an anachronism here, as Arras did not manufacture tapestry till the middle ages. [319] Plut. Vit. Themist. 28. [320] Ap. Stob. Serm. v. 120. [321] James i. 23. [322] He alludes to the recommendation which moralists have often given, that a person in anger should go through the alphabet to himself, before he allows himself to speak. [323] In his day, the musket was fixed upon a stand, called the “rest,” much as the gingals or matchlocks are used in the East at the present day. [324] From debts and incumbrances. [325] Plut. Vit. Themist. ad init. [326] “Equal to business.” [327] He alludes to the following passage, St. Matthew xiii. 31: “Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard-seed, which a man took and sowed in his field; which indeed is the least of all seeds; but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.” [328] Virg. Ecl. vii. 51. [329] Vide. _A. L._ i. vii. 11. [330] He was vanquished by Lucullus, and finally submitted to Pompey.—_Plut. Vit. Lucull._ 27. [331] He alludes to the prophetic words of Jacob on his death-bed, Gen. xlix. 9, 14, 15: “Judah is a lion’s whelp; ... he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion.... Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens: And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.” [332] Sums of money voluntarily contributed by the people for the use of the sovereign.