[Footnote 237: "Mr. Evelyn tells me of several of the menial servants of the Court lacking bread, that have not received a farthing wages since the King's coming in."--Pepys's Diary, ed. Lord Braybrooke, 3d ed. 1848, 5 vols. IV. April 26, 1667. "Mr. Povy says that to this day the King do follow the women as much as he ever did; that the Duke of York... hath come out of his wife's bed, and gone to others laid in bed for him;... that the family (of the Duke) is in horrible disorder by being in debt by spending above £60,000 per annum, when he hath not £40,000." (Ibid. IV. June 23, 1667). "It is certain that, as it now is, the seamen of England, in my conscience, would, if they could, go over and serve the king of France or Holland rather than us." (Ibid. IV. June 25, 1667).] [Footnote 238: Pepys's Diary, vol. IV. July 29, 1667.] [Footnote 239: Rochester's Works, edited by Saint-Évremond.] [Footnote 240: Pepys's Diary, II. January 1, 1662-1663.] [Footnote 241: Ibid. IV. July 30, 1667.] [Footnote 242: Ibid. III. July 26, 1665.] [Footnote 243: Ibid. II. November 9, 1663.] [Footnote 244: Pepys's Diary, II. February 8, 17, 1662-3.] [Footnote 245: Ibid. February 21, 1664-1665.] [Footnote 246: The author has inadvertently confounded "my Lady Bennet" with the Countess of Arlington. See Pepys's Diary, IV. May 30, 1668, footnote.--Tr.] [Footnote 247: "Though I reverence those men of ancient times that either have written truth perspicuously, or set it in a better way to find it out ourselves, yet to the antiquity itself, I think nothing due; for if we reverence the age, the present is the oldest."--Hobbes's Works, Molesworth, 11 vols. 8 vo, 1839-45, III. 712.] [Footnote 248: "To say he hath spoken to him in a dream, is no more than to say he dreamed that God spake to him.... To say he hath seen a vision or heard a voice, is to say that he has dreamed between sleeping and waking.... To say he speaks by supernatural inspiration, is to say he finds an ardent desire to speak, or some strong opinion of himself for which he can allege no sufficient and natural reason."--Ibid, III. 361-2.] [Footnote 249: "From the principle parts of Nature, Reason, and Passion, have proceeded two kinds of learning, mathematical and dogmatical. The former is free from controversy and dispute, because it consisteth in comparing figure and motion only, in which things truth and the interest of men oppose not each other. But in the other there is nothing undisputable, because it compares men, and meddles with their right and profit."--Ibid. 11 vols. 8 vo, 1839-45, IV. Epis. ded.] [Footnote 250: His chief works were written between 1646 and 1655.] [Footnote 251: Nemo dat nisi respiciens ad bonum sibi. Amicitiæ bonse, nempe utiles. Nam amicitiæ cum ad multa alia, turn ad præsidium conferunt. Sapientia utile. Nam præsidium in se habet nonnullum. Etiam appetibile est per se, id est jucundum. Item pulchrum, quia acquisitu difficilis.