[414] Jacques Clement, a Dominican friar, who assassinated Henry III. of France, in 1589. The sombre fanatic was but twenty-five year of age; and he had announced the intention of killing with his own hands the great enemy of his faith. He was instigated by the Leaguers, and particularly by the Duchess of Montpensier, the sister of the Duke of Guise. [415] He murdered Henry IV. of France, in 1610. [416] Philip II. of Spain having, in 1582, set a price upon the head of William of Nassau, Prince of Orange, the leader of the Protestants, Jaureguy attempted to assassinate him, and severely wounded him. [417] He assassinated William of Nassau, in 1584. It is supposed that this fanatic meditated the crime for six years. [418] A resolution prompted by a vow of devotion to a particular principle or creed. [419] He alludes to the Hindoos, and the ceremony of Suttee, encouraged by the Brahmins. [420] Flinching.—_Vide_ Cic. Tuscul. Disp. ii. 14. [421] “Every man is the architect of his own fortune.” Sallust, in his letters “De Republicâ Ordinandâ,” attributes these words to Appius Claudius Cæcus, a Roman poet whose works are now lost. Lord Bacon, in the Latin translation of his Essays, which was made under his supervision, rendered the word “poet” “comicus;” by whom he probably meant Plautus, who has this line in his “Trinummus” (Act ii, sc. 2): “Nam sapiens quidem pol ipsus fingit fortunam sibi,” which has the same meaning, though in somewhat different terms. [422] “A serpent, unless it has devoured a serpent, does not become a dragon.” [423] Or “desenvoltura,” implying readiness to adapt one’s self to circumstances. [424] Impediments, causes for hesitation. [425] “In that man there was such great strength of body and mind, that, in whatever station he had been born, he seemed as though he should make his fortune.” [426] “A versatile genius.” [427] “A little of the fool.” [428] “Thou carriest Cæsar and his fortunes.”—_Plut. Vit. Cæls._ 38. [429] “The Fortunate.” He attributed his success to the intervention of Hercules, to whom he paid especial veneration. [430] “The Great.”—_Plut. Syll._ 34. [431] A successful Athenian general, the son of Conon, and the friend of Plato. [432] Fluency, or smoothness. [433] Lord Bacon seems to use the word in the general sense of “lending money upon interest.” [434] “Drive from their hives the drones, a lazy race.”—_Georgics_, b. iv. 168. [435] “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread.”—_Gen._ iii. 19. [436] “In the sweat of the face of another.” [437] In the middle ages the Jews were compelled, by legal enactment, to wear peculiar dresses and colors; one of these was orange. [438] “A concession by reason of hardness of heart.” He alludes to the words in St. Matthew xix. 8. [439] See note to Essay xix. [440] Hold. [441] The imaginary country described in Sir Thomas More’s political romance of that name. [442] Regulation. [443] Be paid.