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APPENDIX F.

SINGLE WORDS, LATIN, GREEK, AND SPANISH, IN THE PROMUS.'

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THE process of revising the following catalogue of works moves the writer to enforce, by a few words, the remarks made in the Introductory Chapter (p. 81) on the probability that these lists may contain some errors and more omissions in the notes of Baconian expressions, &c. It was by no means anticipated that so few allusions to the subject of Bacon's notes would be met with in the works of other authors; and it appears stranger still that writers such as Heywood, Beaumont and Fletcher, Shirley, Jonson, &c., should, if they adopted any of Bacon's turns of expression, use them so rarely as would appear to be the case, if we may judge from the following tables. Such considerations have led to a second perusal of many of the more important works, and Ben Jonson's plays have been carefully studied, but hardly any further results have been obtained than at the first reading. Whatever small turns of expression may have been overlooked, it seems certain that nowhere, excepting in Shakespeare, can we find either the quotations which Bacon uses, or his manner of using quotations. Neither can we elsewhere discover the highly antithetical ideas which are so characteristic of Bacon's writings, and of which

there are upwards of eighty examples in the Promus, and innumerable instances in the Plays.

Had time and strength permitted, the present writer would have been glad to go through the whole of the works once more, now that a more intimate acquaintance with the Promus notes has rendered it comparatively easy to recognise at a glance any phrase or passage which resembles them. But this desire cannot now be fulfilled; and should any feel disposed to judge severely of the omissions or inaccuracies which may be discovered in the following tables, or indeed in any part of this book, it is hoped that they will try to realise the difficulty which was, in the first instance, found, of putting a meaning to the entries, and also the effort of memory required in order to keep the whole of those entries before the mind's eye, so as to be able to distinguish them even in a completely different setting.

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Name of Work

Name of Author

Notes of Expressions, Quotations, &c., similar to any of the Promus entries

A King and No King, 1619 Beaumont and Fletcher' Well' The Humorous Lieutenant,

1717

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