PAGE 119. naturæ bellum inferre = to wage war against nature nunquam libertas, etc. = liberty is never so pleasing as under a good king 120. penes episcopos = in the hands of bishops suam quisque, etc. = each man is bound to plead his own cause 121. unius ætatis sunt, etc. = brave deeds belong to one age, but what is written for the commonweal is immortal omne sub regno, etc. = every kingdom is subject to some stronger kingdom 122. quis enim virtutem, etc. = for who is ready to embrace even virtue, if you take away its rewards Hostem qui feriet, etc. = he who shall strike the foe, is for me a Carthaginian otio superstitioso seclusi - shut apart in a superstitious sloth 123. Nullum solum, etc. = To the miserable man no soil is more pleasing than solitude, where there is none to cast up to him his misery shooing-horn = a horn such as is employed to herd cattle Blanda quidem, etc. = pleasant are they in their very conception 124. subrusticus pudor = a country bred shame hæret lateri letalis arundo = the deadly arrow sticks in his side 125. mens ejus aut languescit, etc. = his mind is either languid or inflated 126. indignissimus plerumque præfertur, etc. = the most unworthy is usually preferred, a Vatinius to a Cato, a mean man to an honourable : Slaves are masters: asses wear The trappings of horses: and horses go undecked. brewess, or brewis = broth 187. that opinionum varietas, et opinantium unitas, are dovoтaTA = that difference of opinions, and concord amongst those who hold the opinions, are incompatible 206. Hermogenes, a Greek writer on rhetoric, in the age of Marcus Aurelius 229. Offensis Ruffinum divide terris= Divide Ruffinus amongst all the lands he has offended 231. Nihil rerum mortalium, etc. = amongst all human things none is so unstable and fluctuating, as the reputation of influence that does not rest upon its own power 239. the pastry = the room in which pastry was made 243. wines concustable, so in the old editions. But it is doubtless an error for congustable: wines fit to be tasted with See Num 252. the fire of Taberah. = 323. bezo las manos I kiss my bers xi. 3 263. Ea que manifeste posita sunt, etc. those things which are plainly set forth in Holy Scriptures, contain all things that pertain to faith and the conduct of life meticulously with attention to 406. in republica Platonis, non in fæce minute trifles 335. Belisarius at beggar's bush. According to the common tradition, Belisarius, after being blinded, begged his daily bread at the gates of the convent of Laurus Bajazet in the grate. The Sultan Bajazet, in the fourteenth century, was said to have been carried about by his conqueror, Timur, in an iron cage 336. apogeum. The point at which heavenly bodies are most distant from the earth 349. culverkeyes. The flowers called columbines 361. sneaped = snubbed. Cf. "sneaping winds" in Winters Tale 366. alta mente repostum buried in the depths of their mind 377. Templa Deo, etc. He gave churches to God, monks to the churches, lands to the monks Templa adimit, etc. He robs the gods of their churches, the citizens of their markets, the husbandmen of their fields 379. glorre=grease or fat 384. tameth. This is perhaps equi = valent to "teameth" carries home by teams; or perhaps to teemeth in the old meaning of 407. Romuli in Plato's ideal re public, and not in the dregs of actual life in tanto viro, etc. In such a man, would be but to insult his virtues 409. et in luctu, etc. = And in his grief, he counted war as one possible remedy 425. O fortunati nimium, etc. =0 generation, exceeding happy, if only they knew their own mercies 427. Mea ætas incidit, etc. My life fell upon a war, one part of which brought an excess of wickedness, the other part a dearth of happiness 471. rebec. A sort of guitar ballatry. A jig or song Monte Mayors. Referring to G. de Montemayor's Arcadian romance of Diana Enamorada (Valencia, 1542) 473. Enchiridion = a handbook 474. he whom an honest quæstorship = Cicero 475. Syntagma =scheme of doctrine 476. pismires=ants 511. chitted=sprouted |