Essay XV. Of Seditions and Troubles.-- "As Machiavel noteth well, when princes, that ought to be common parents, make themselves as a party," &c.] Perhaps Lord Bacon alludes to _Disc._ iii. 27. "As Tacitus expresseth it well, 'Liberius quam ut imperantium meminissent.'"] Mr. Markby is at a loss to trace this quotation. I am unable to assist him. The verses of Lucan are quoted from memory. The original has, "Avidumque in tempora," and "Et concussa fides." "Dolendi modus, timendi non item."] Query, Whence are these words taken? "Solvam cingula regum."] Mr. Markby refers to Job xii. 18.; but the passage alluded to seems to be Isaiah xlv. 1. The story of Epimetheus is differently applied in _Sap. Vet._, vol. x. p. 342. The saying of Cæsar on Sylla is inserted in the _Apophthegms_, No. 135. p. 379. That of Galba is likewise to be found in Suet. _Galb._ 16. Essay XVI. Of Atheism.--See _Antitheta_, No. 13. vol. viii. p. 360. "Who to him is instead of a god, or melior natura."] From Ovid, _Met._ 1. 21. "Hanc deus et melior litem natura diremit." Essay XVII. Of Superstition.--See _Antitheta_, No. 13. vol. viii. p. 360. Essay XIX. Of Empire.--See _Antitheta_, No. 8. vol. viii. p. 358. "And the like was done by that league, which Guicciardini saith was the security of Italy," &c.] The league alluded to, is that of 1485. See Guicciardini, lib. i. c. 1. "Neither is the opinion of some of the school-men to be received, that a war cannot justly be made but upon a precedent injury or provocation."] Grotius lays down the same doctrine as Bacon, _De J. B. et P._, ii. 1. §§ 2, 3. Query, What school-men are here referred to? Essay XX. Of Counsel.--See _Antitheta_, No. 44. vol. viii. p. 377. Jupiter and Metis.] See _Sap. Vet._, vol. xi. p. 354. "For which inconveniences, the doctrine of Italy, and practice of France, in some kings' times, hath introduced cabinet councils: a remedy worse than the disease." By "cabinet councils" are here meant private meetings of selected advisers in the king's own apartment. "Principis est virtus maxima nosse suos."] From Martial, viii. 15. "It was truly said, '_Optimi consiliarii mortui._'"] Compare _Apophthegms_, No. 105.: "Alonzo of Arragon was wont to say of himself, that he was a great necromancer; for that he used to ask counsel of the dead, meaning books." Essay XXI. Of Delays.--See _Antitheta_, No. 41. vol. viii. p. 376. "Occasion (as it is in the common verse) turneth a bald noddle," &c.] See "N. & Q.," Vol. iii., pp. 8. 43., where this saying is illustrated. Essay XXII. Of Cunning.-- "The old rule, to know a fool from a wise man: 'Mitte ambos nudos ad ignotos, et videbis.'"] Attributed to "one of the philosophers" in _Apophthegms_, No. 255. p. 404.