Discover, make known or manifest, disclose, reveal, 18, 206, 210.

Discovery, revelation, disclosure, 21, 175, 212.

Dispenseth with, excuses, condones, 160.

Disreputation, bringing into disrepute, 209.

Distasted, disgusted, 212. So distastes, annoyances, 18.

Ditty, the words of a song, 163.

Doctor, teacher, 9.

Donative, giving, bestowing, 149; a gift, present, 64, 83, 134.
Doubt, to fear, suspect, think likely, 94, 120, 245.

Dry, hard, severe; dry blow, a smart hit, 143.
Dryness, condition of being dried up, failure, 179.

Ease to be, find, find it comfortable to be, 108.

Eccentrics, circles or orbits not having the earth exactly at their centre, 71.

Edge, stimulate, egg on,' 179.

Ejaculation, a darting forth, emission of rays, 30.

Election, choice, discrimination, 209; liberty to choose, option, 186. Embaseth, debases, makes base, 3, 40.

Embassages, embassies, 225. (Cf. Ambassage.)

Embossments, projections, 200.

Employed men, employés, attachés, 75. Employed to, used for, 146. Engaged (with), bound, stuck fast in, 170.

Engines, contrivances, machinery,' 71; machines, 170.

Engrossing, monopolizing, 34, 62.

Ensigns, insignia, decorations, 135.

Entertainment, something to occupy or divert men's thoughts, 211. Epicure, Epicurean, follower of Epicurus, 13.

Epicycle, a little circle, whose centre describes a greater circle (eccentric) about the earth; each of the planets was supposed to move in such a small circle (71).

Equality of bores,? pipes of equal bore (.e. equal to that of the 'spouts'), 201.

Equipollent, equal in power, equivalent, 169.

Espials, spies, 208. (Cf. Spials.)

Estate, a State, government, 36, 53, 237, Essay xxix., etc.; so business of estate, matters of estate (= State affairs), 89, 122, 237; discourse of estate, 94.-His own estate, his own affairs, 31.-Estates of men orders, professions, 209.

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Esteemeth too much of, values too highly, 39.

Estivation, passing the summer: place of estivation = a summer

retreat, 192.

Evil-favoured: see Favour.

Exaltation, in his, in the region where its influence is strongest (a term of astrology), 171.

Excusations, excuses, making excuses, 105, 228.

Exercised, practised and disciplined in the battle of life, 173.
Exhaust, exhausted, 28, 249.

Expect, wait for, 151.

Experience, trial, experiment: would be put in experience = ought to be tried, 146.

Expert men, men who have been trained by experience or practice,

214.

Extern, external, outside, 182.

Facile, easily wrought upon or got at,' 28. Facility, undue readiness to please, give way to, or be swayed by others, 43, 44, 50, 221.

Facts, deeds, acts, 14.

Fair, in parenthesis just, simply: i.e. will e'en let him go on,'

22.

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Fall under, admit of, 123, 248. Falleth upon that, notes the fact, 172.

Falls, incidents, incidental passages (of affairs); or perhaps, issues, conclusions, 98.

Fame, rumour, report, 56, 57, 250-2; reputation, 23, 226-7.
Fashions, a man's habits or ways,' 206.

Fast, tenacious, retentive (of their smells'), 197.

Fast upon, close upon, 54.

Favour, features, expression of the countenance, 117, 184. Evilfavoured, ill-looking, 'ugly,' 169.

Fearful, timid, 123, 161; fearfulness, timidity, 23.

Feeding humours, ministering to a superior's caprices, 152; cf. feed

his humour, 88.

Feigned prices, fancy prices,' 149.

Fetching, reaching, striking, 248.

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Fifth essence quintessence, the immutable essence of which the heavenly bodies are formed, 66.

Figure, in, so as to form a pattern, as a complete picture, 115.

(Cf. turning.. into figure, 163.)

Filberds, filberts, 196.

Final to, have been, have put an end to, 133.

Flags, insignia, 53.

Flash, for a, for a moment, 130.

Flashy, insipid, flat,' 215.

Flos Africanus, a kind of marigold, 196.

Flower-delices, irises (fleurs-de-lis), 196.

Fly, fly at (with a hawk), 251.

Foot, under: see Under.

Foot-pace, a raised floor or platform (on which the bench is set),

236.

Foresee, provide, 61, 193, 247.

Forth, go, go on, proceed (in his speech), 95.

Forwardness, in, making good progress, 148, 212.

Forwards, forward, eager, 76.

Frame, out of, disordered, out of gear, 58.

Freely, without charge, gratis, 175.

Friarly, friar-like, 150.

Fritillaria, fritillary, 196.

From (the sun), turned from, away from, 192.

Fume, empty fancy, 244.

Futile, incontinent of speech, talkative, 21, 86.

Galliard, an old French dance of a spirited character, 142.

Gallo-Gracia, Galatia, 246.

Gaudery, showy display, 134.

Gingles, jingles, rattles, 147.

Ginnitings, jennetings (a kind of early apple), 196.

Given over, given up, abandoned, 229, 244.

Globe, a complete or perfect body of things, 42.

Glorious, ostentatious, vain-glorious, 153, 208, 226-8.

Glory, vain-glory, 227, 235; fine show, splendour, 164, 165.

Goeth away with it, wins the advantage, comes off the winner,

218.

Grace, favour, III. Grace themselves, do themselves credit,

205.

Gracing, complimenting, 235.

Gracious, acceptable to others, deserving their thanks, 212; graceful, 184, 228.

Graze, to, to be grown with grass (i.e. the four quarters of the court, divided by paths running across at right angles, are to be laid with turf), 191.

Great with, so, on such intimate terms with, 210.

Great Year, Plato's, a great cycle of years, at the end of which the celestial bodies would be found to have returned to the posi

tions they were in at the beginning of the cycle (244).

Grotta, grotto, 192.

Ground, underlying rule or principle, 187.

Grounds of several natures, different kinds of soil, 188.
Growing silk, vegetable silk, grass silk,' 146.

Haberdashers of small wares, retail dealers or vendors, 93.
Habilitation, qualification, a making apt or able, 130.

Half piece, as an, imperfect, wanting the other half, 113.
Hand, at a dear, at a dear rate, 105. Of even hand, at an even
balance (of accounts, i.e. not having a balance on the wrong
side'), 120. To come at even hand, to come to an equality, to
be even (with another), 31.

Hap, happen, chance, 243.

Healths, the drinking of healths or toasts (which, in Bacon's time, meant deep drinking), 75. (Cf. 166.)

Hearken how they waste, ascertain how their numbers dwindle, 147. Hearse-like, funereal, 18.

Heath, part of a garden left in a wild state, a wilderness,' 198,

200, 201.

Herba muscaria, grape-hyacinth, 196.

Hierusalem, Jerusalem, 145.

Hold out, keep up, continue on (that scale), 209.

Hollyokes, hollyhocks, 197.

Holpen, helped, 87, 103, 122.

Hooded, having the head covered up so that they cannot see (a term

of falconry), 73.

Hortatives, exhortations, 28.

Humorous, guided by one's own humour,' full of odd humours'

or fancies, 28.

Hyacinthus orientalis, the ordinary cultivated hyacinth, 196.

Impertinency, irrelevance, 234. Impertinent, irrelevant, 108.
Importeth, is of importance, 10, 124, 130.

Importune, importunate, 36, 166, 208.

Impostumations, impostumes, abscesses, 63.

Impression, of the last, under the influence of what they have been last impressed by, 210.

Imprinting, impressive, 221.

Impropriate, appropriate, 134.

Inbowed windows, bow-windows, 192.

Incensed, burnt (as incense), 18.

Incommodities, disadvantages, drawbacks, 176.

Inconformity, incongruity, 102.

Incurreth.. into the note, comes under the observation (of others), 32. Indifferent, impartial, 21, 53, 89, 217.

Industriously, purposely, 20.

Infamed, made infamous, 80.

Information, make an, make something known, bring something to

the notice of others, 211.

Infortunate, unfortunate, 16, 174.

Inordinate, ungoverned (in one's passions), 38.

Intend, to be bent on, to devote oneself to, 95, 130 (so intention, same passage); to mean, signify, 85.

Interessed, interested, 14.

Interest: to have interest in (a person), to have influence with him, to be able to influence him, 207, 227.

Interest, at, i.e. on terms for which they would have to pay heavily later on, 80.

Interlocution, speaking turn and turn about with others, 143.

Intervenient, intervening, 237.

Inure, to train, habituate, 161.

Inward, intimate, confidential, 44, 87. Inward beggar, i.e. a secret bankrupt, concealing his poverty, 108.

Jade, to over-drive, 141.

Just (cure), proper, exact, 60.

Justs, jousts, tilting with the lance, 165.

Kind, in that, in that way, 21, 179. Cf. in some other kind, 117. Knap, hillock, knoll, 188.