In preparing the following edition, the chief point has been to give, by a careful collation of the author's own edition, a more correct text than is to be found in most of those hitherto published. The notes are principally confined to point out the references to the principal quotations; much had been done by Mr. Markby, and by two correspondents of that useful periodical, "Notes and Queries." These have, of course, been made available with some additions and corrections. S. W. SINGER. 2. Of Death. 1612, enlarged 1625 3. Of Unity in Religion. 1612, rewritten 1625 14. Of Nobility. 1612, rewritten 1625 16. Of Atheism. 1612, slightly enlarged 1625 17. Of Superstition. 1612, slightly enlarged 1625 8 23. Of Wisdom for a Man's Self. 1612, enlarged 1625 PAGE 30. Of Regimen of Health. 1597, enlarged 1612, and again 1625 116 37. Of Masques and Triumphs. 1625 138 38. Of Nature in Men. 1612, enlarged 1625 140 40. Of Fortune. 1612, slightly enlarged 1625 1625 39. Of Custom and Education. 1612, enlarged 1625 41. Of Usury. 1625 42. Of Youth and Age. 1612, slightly enlarged 1625 46. Of Gardens. 142 145 148 153 155 157 159 164 47. Of Negotiating. 1597, enlarged 1612, very slightly altered 1625 172 48. Of Followers and Friends. 1597, slightly enlarged 1625 174 49. Of Suitors. 1597, enlarged 1625 177 50. Of Studies. 1597, slightly enlarged 1612, and again 55. Of Honour and Reputation. 1597, omitted 1612, HAT is Truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an Answer.1 Certainly there be that delight in Giddi ness, and count it a Bondage to fix a Belief; affecting Free-will in Thinking as well as in Acting. And though the Sects of Philosophers of that Kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing Wits, which are of the same Veins, though there be not so much Blood in them as was in those of the Ancients. But it is not only the Difficulty and Labour which Men take in finding out of Truth; nor again, that when it is found, it imposeth upon men's Thoughts, that doth bring Lies in favour; but a natural, though corrupt, Love of the Lie itself. One of the later School2 of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it, that men should love 1 S. John xviii. 38. 2 Most probably he refers to the New Academy. B |