Francis Bacon

He that clears at once will relapse; for finding himself out of straits, he will revert to his customs; but he that cleareth by degrees induceth a habit of frugality.

Clod

The earth that casteth up from the plow a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod.

Close

If the rooms be low-roofed, or full of windows and doors, the one maketh the air close, . . . and the other maketh it exceeding unequal.

Closeness

We rise not against the piercing judgment of Augustus, nor the extreme caution or closeness of Tiberius.

Clot

Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach.

Cloy

He never shod horse but he cloyed him.

Coal

Charcoal of roots, coaled into great pieces.

Cockatrice

This little cockatrice of a king.

Coffee

They have in Turkey a drink called coffee. . . . This drink comforteth the brain and heart, and helpeth digestion.

Coffer

He would discharge it without any burden to the queen's coffers, for honor sake.

Cogitate

He that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth.

Coif

The judges, . . . althout they are not of the first magnitude, nor need be of the degree of the coif, yet are they considerable.

Collation

Not by the collation of the king . . . but by the people.

Colliquefaction

The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction.

Comfort

Light excelleth in comforting the spirits of men.

Command

We are commanded to forgive our enemies, but you never read that we are commanded to forgive our friends.

Commendable

Order and decent ceremonies in the church are not only comely but commendable.

Commendation

By the commendation of the great officers.

Commixture

In the commixture of anything that is more oily or sweet, such bodies are least apt to putrefy.

Commoner

Much good land might be gained from forests . . . and from other commonable places, so as always there be a due care taken that the poor commoners have no injury.

Compare

Solon compared the people unto the sea, and orators and counselors to the winds; for that the sea would be calm and quiet if the winds did not trouble it.

Compensate

The length of the night and the dews thereof do compensate the heat of the day.

Competition

Competition to the crown there is none, nor can be.

Comprehensible

Lest this part of knowledge should seem to any not comprehensible by axiom, we will set down some heads of it.

Computation

By a computation backward from ourselves.

Conceit

In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous.

Conclude

I will conclude this part with the speech of a counselor of state.

Conclusion

We practice likewise all conclusions of grafting and inoculating.

Concurrent

There is no difference the concurrent echo and the iterant but the quickness or slowness of the return.

Concussion

It is believed that great ringing of bells, in populous cities, hath dissipated pestilent air; which may be from the concussion of the air.

Condiment

As for radish and the like, they are for condiments, and not for nourishment.

Condition

It seemed to us a condition and property of divine powers and beings to be hidden and unseen to others.

Confection

A new confection of mold.

Certain confections . . . are like to candied conserves, and are made of sugar and lemons.

Confederation

The three princes enter into some strict league and confederation among themselves.

Confessor

Our religion which hath been sealed with the blood of so many martyrs and confessors.

Confiscate

It was judged that he should be banished and his whole estate confiscated and seized.

Conflict

Fire and water conflicting together.

Conglomerate

Beams of light when they are multiplied and conglomerate.

Congregation

The means of reduction in the fire is but by the congregation of homogeneal parts.

Consecrate

They were assembled in that consecrate place.

Consistence

Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence.

Consistory

Pius was then hearing of causes in consistory.

Consolidate

In hurts and ulcers of the head, dryness maketh them more apt to consolidate.

Constipate

Of cold the property is to condense and constipate.

Content

Strong ship's, of great content.

Contradictory

It is common with princes to will contradictories.

Contuse

Roots, barks, and seeds contused together.

Conversation

I set down, out of long experience in business and much conversation in books, what I thought pertinent to this business.

Conversion

Artificial conversion of water into ice.

Convince

God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

Coöperation

Not holpen by the cooperation of angels.

Copple dust

Powder of steel, or copple dust.

Core

He was in a core of people.

Corps

The whole corps of the law.

The prebendaries over and above their reserved rents have a corps.

Correspondence

Holding also good correspondence with the other great men in the state.

Corruption

The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to “generation”.

Couch

It is at this day in use at Gaza, to couch potsherds, or vessels of earth, in their walls.

Counterpoise

The second nobles are a counterpoise to the higher nobility, that they grow not too potent.

Courtier

You know I am no courtier, nor versed in state affairs.

Covert

Of either side the green, to plant a covert alley.

Creature

God's first creature was light.

Crook

What soever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends.

Cunning

We take cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom.

Curfew

For pans, pots, curfews, counters and the like.

Curiosity

There hath been practiced also a curiosity, to set a tree upon the north side of a wall, and, at a little hieght, to draw it through the wall, etc.

Currency

He . . . takes greatness of kingdoms according to their bulk and currency, and not after intrinsic value.

Custody

A fleet of thirty ships for the custody of the narrow seas.

Dainty

Thew were a fine and dainty people.

Damage

Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune.

Damp

Usury dulls and damps all industries, improvements, and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring if it were not for this slug.

Darken

Such was his wisdom that his confidence did seldom darkenhis foresight.

Dash

If you dash a stone against a stone in the botton of the water, it maketh a sound.

Dazzle

An overlight maketh the eyes dazzle.

Dead

So iron, as soon as it is out of the fire, deadeth straightway.

Deal

Sometimes he that deals between man and man, raiseth his own credit with both, by pretending greater interest than he hath in either.

Dearness

The dearness of friendship.

Death

Not to suffer a man of death to live.

Decay

He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers, is the decay of the whole age.

Deceive

Plant fruit trees in large borders, and set therein fine flowers, but thin and sparingly, lest they deceive the trees.

Decoction

In decoction . . . it either purgeth at the top or settleth at the bottom.

Decomposite

Decomposites of three metals or more.

Deeply

He had deeply offended both his nobles and people.

Deface

[Profane scoffing] doth . . . deface the reverence of religion.

Defensive

Wars preventive, upon just fears, are true defensives.

Defer

Hereupon the commissioners . . . deferred the matter to the Earl of Northumberland.

Deferent

Though air be the most favorable deferent of sounds.

Deify

He did again so extol and deify the pope.

Delate

Try exactly the time wherein sound is delated.

Delation

In delation of sounds, the inclosure of them preserveth them.

Deliver

Whereof the former delivers the precepts of the art, and the latter the perfection.

Dentize

The old countess . . . did dentize twice or thrice.

Depart

The chymists have a liquor called water of depart.

Depectible

Some bodies are of a more depectible nature than oil.

Dependency

So that they may acknowledge their dependency on the crown of England.

Depose

To depose the yearly rent or valuation of lands.

deprecatory

Humble and deprecatory letters.

Depredate

It makes the substance of the body . . . less apt to be consumed and depredated by the spirits.

Deprehend

The motion . . . are to be deprehended by experience.

Deprive

A minister deprived for inconformity.

Desiccate

Bodies desiccated by heat or age.

Destitute

To forsake or destitute a plantation.

Determine

The knowledge of men hitherto hath been determined by the view or sight.

Detraction

The detraction of the eggs of the said wild fowl.

Dexterity

His wisdom . . . was turned . . . into a dexterity to deliver himself.

Dictate

Sylla could not skill of letters, and therefore knew not how to dictate.

Diet

Let him . . . diet in such places, where there is good company of the nation, where he traveleth.

Discharge

The cloud, if it were oily or fatty, would not discharge.

Discipline

Wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

Disclose

The ostrich layeth her eggs under sand, where the heat of the discloseth them.

Discord

For a discord itself is but a harshness of divers sounds ming.

The one discording with the other.

Discover

Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Diseaseful

Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people.

Disgrace

The interchange continually of favors and disgraces.

Dispose

Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy.

Dissembler

It is the weakest sort of politicians that are the greatest dissemblers.

Dissent

The dissent of the metals.

dissimulation

Dissimulation . . . when a man lets fall signs and arguments that he is not that he is.

Dissipable

The heat of those plants is very dissipable.

Dissipation

Without loss or dissipation of the matter.

Distance

Setting them [factions] at distance, or at least distrust amongst themselves.

Distaste

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

Divers

Every sect of them hath a divers posture.

doctor

One of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel.

Dotterel

In catching of dotterels we see how the foolish bird playeth the ape in gestures.

Downy

Plants that . . . have downy or velvet rind upon their leaves.

Drain

Fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent.

Salt water, drained through twenty vessels of earth, hath become fresh.

Drouth

Another ill accident is drouth at the spindling of corn.

Drunken

Drunken men imagine everything turneth round.

Ear

Dionysius . . . would give no ear to his suit.

Eccentric

His own ends, which must needs be often eccentric to those of his master.

Efface

Efface from his mind the theories and notions vulgarly received.

Effective

They are not effective of anything, nor leave no work behind them.

Effeminate

The king, by his voluptuous life and mean marriage, became effeminate, and less sensible of honor.

Effluxion

Some light effluxions from spirit to spirit.

Either

Scarce a palm of ground could be gotten by either of the three.

Election

To use men with much difference and election is good.

Embar

He embarred all further trade.

Embase

Alloy in coin of gold . . . may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it.

Embracement

In the embracement of the parts hardly reparable, as bones.

Endanger

He that turneth the humors back . . . endangereth malign ulcers.

Entry

A notary made an entry of this act.

Epicycle

The schoolmen were like astronomers which did feign eccentrics, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs.

Erect

By wet, stalks do erect.

Estate

I call matters of estate not only the parts of sovereignty, but whatsoever . . . concerneth manifestly any great portion of people.

Evaporate

To give moderate liberty for griefs and discontents to evaporate . . . is a safe way.

Exception

He . . . took exception to the place of their burial.

Excrement

Living creatures put forth (after their period of growth) nothing that is young but hair and nails, which are excrements and no parts.

Exemplary

[Bishops'] lives and doctrines ought to be exemplary.

Exhilaration

Exhilaration hath some affinity with joy, though it be a much lighter motion.

Expedite

Such charters be expedited of course.

Expiration

The true cause of cold is an expiration from the globe of the earth.

Expire

The expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter.

Export

[They] export honor from a man, and make him a return in envy.

Express

All the fruits out of which drink is expressed.

Extimulation

Things insipid, and without any extimulation.

Falsification

To counterfeit the living image of king in his person exceedeth all falsifications.

Fascinate

There be none of the passions that have been noted to fascinate or bewitch but love and envy.

Fast

Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells.

Fatal

It was fatal to the king to fight for his money.

Feather

They stuck not to say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself.

Fellowship

In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods.

Fetch

Fetching men again when they swoon.

Fetid

Most putrefactions . . . smell either fetid or moldy.

Fictile

Fictile earth is more fragile than crude earth.

Fiddle

Themistocles . . . said he could not fiddle, but he could make a small town a great city.

Figurate

Plants are all figurate and determinate, which inanimate bodies are not.

Figure

Flowers have all exquisite figures.

Fill

Things that are sweet and fat are more filling.

Finance

All the finances or revenues of the imperial crown.

fine

The eye standeth in the finer medium and the object in the grosser.

Flagrancy

Lust causeth a flagrancy in the eyes.

Flash

The Persians and Macedonians had it for a flash.

Flat

Envy is as the sunbeams that beat hotter upon a bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat.

Flexible

Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people.

Flourish

Bottoms of thread . . . which with a good needle, perhaps may be flourished into large works.

Flower

That beer did flower a little.

Fold

Mummies . . . shrouded in a number of folds of linen.

For

It was young counsel for the persons, and violent counsel for the matters.

We sailed from Peru for China and Japan.

Forcible

Sweet smells are most forcible in dry substances, when broken.

Foresee

Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life.

Forge

In the greater bodies the forge was easy.

Fragile

The state of ivy is tough, and not fragile.

Friendship

There is little friendship in the world.

From

Experience from the time past to the time present.

Froward

A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation.

Fry

To keep the oil from frying in the stomach.

Full

Reading maketh a full man.

Fume

A show of fumes and fancies.

Futile

Talkers and futile persons.

Gadding

Envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets.

Gather

Their snowball did not gather as it went.

Glaze

Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and glazed with crystalline glass.

Graze

The ground continueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose.

Greatness

It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships.

Grizzly

Old squirrels that turn grizzly.

handful

Knap the tongs together about a handful from the bottom.

Handle

We will handle what persons are apt to envy others.

Harass

[Troops] harassed with a long and wearisome march.

Harrow

Meaning thereby to harrow his people.

Heap

A heap of vassals and slaves.

Hearselike

If you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols.

Heed

Birds give more heed and mark words more than beasts.

Here

Happy here, and more happy hereafter.

Hold

If a man be upon an high place without rails or good hold, he is ready to fall.

Home

They come home to men's business and bosoms.

Honor

Some in their actions do woo, and affect honor and reputation.

Horse

The armies were appointed, consisting of twenty-five thousand horse and foot.

Horseflesh

The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day.

Hostage

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

Hotchpot

A mixture or hotchpotch of many tastes.

House

Houses are built to live in; not to look on.

Humor

A prince of a pleasant humor.

Ill

Neither is it ill air only that maketh an ill seat, but ill ways, ill markets, and ill neighbors.

Imagination

Imagination is of three kinds: joined with belief of that which is to come; joined with memory of that which is past; and of things present, or as if they were present.

Importune

Of all other affections it [envy] is the most importune and continual.

Impropriate

To impropriate the thanks to himself.

Incite

Anthiochus, when he incited Prusias to join in war, set before him the greatness of the Romans.

Incompetent

Richard III. had a resolution, out of hatred to his brethren, to disable their issues, upon false and incompetent pretexts, the one of attainder, the other of illegitimation.

Incorporate

A fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold.

Painters' colors and ashes do better incorporate will oil.

Increase

Seeds, hair, nails, hedges, and herbs will grow soonest if set or cut in the increase of the moon.

Indifferent

In choice of committees for ripening business for the counsel, it is better to choose indifferent persons than to make an indifferency by putting in those that are strong on both sides.

Induce

Sour things induces a contraction in the nerves.

Inequality

Inequality of air is ever an enemy to health.

Infame

Livia is infamed for the poisoning of her husband.

Influence

Astrologers call the evil influences of the stars, evil aspects.

Ingenerate

Those virtues were rather feigned and affected . . . than true qualities ingenerate in his judgment.

Ingurgitation

He drowned his stomach and senses with a large draught and ingurgitation of wine.

Inkling

The least inkling or glimpse of this island.

Insurrection

Insurrections of base people are commonly more furious in their beginnings.

Integral

A local motion keepeth bodies integral.

Intend

Having no children, she did, with singular care and tenderness, intend the education of Philip.

Intension

Sounds . . . likewise do rise and fall with the intension or remission of the wind.

Interjection

The interjection of laughing.

Intermeddle

The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states.

Intermixture

In this height of impiety there wanted not an intermixture of levity and folly.

Invest

It investeth a right of government.

Inveterate

It is an inveterate and received opinion.

Inviolate

His fortune of arms was still inviolate.

Irrecoverable

That which is past is gone and irrecoverable.

Irritate

Cold maketh the spirits vigorous and irritateth them.

itinerary

It was rather an itinerary circuit of justice than a progress.

Jealous

It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband wise; which she will never do if she find him jealous.

Jingle

If you plant where savages are, do not only entertain them with trifles and jingles, but use them justly.

Judge

The parts of a judge in hearing are four: to direct the evidence; to moderate length, repetition, or impertinency of speech; to recapitulate, select, and collate the material points of that which hath been said; and to give the rule or sentence.

Judicature

The honor of the judges in their judicature is the king's honor.

Just

He was a comely personage, a little above just stature.

Kin

You are of kin, and so a friend to their persons.

Kind

Diogenes was asked in a kind of scorn: What was the matter that philosophers haunted rich men, and not rich men philosophers?

Knowledge

There is a great difference in the delivery of the mathematics, which are the most abstracted of knowledges.

Lace

Our English dames are much given to the wearing of costly laces.

Lay

Let brave spirits . . . not be laid by.

A viol should have a lay of wire strings below.

Laystall

Smithfield was a laystall of all ordure and filth.

Lead

I would have the tower two stories, and goodly leads upon the top.

Leave

Besides it leaveth a suspicion, as if more might be said than is expressed.

Legislator

The legislators in ancient and heroical times.

Libation

A heathen sacrifice or libation to the earth.

Light

Unmarried men are best friends, best masters . . . but not always best subjects, for they are light to run away.

Lightsome

White walls make rooms more lightsome than black.

Ligneous

It should be tried with shoots of vines and roots of red roses; for it may be they, being of a moreligneous nature, will incorporate with the tree itself.

Liking

If the human intellect hath once taken a liking to any doctrine, . . . it draws everything else into harmony with that doctrine, and to its support.

List

He was the ablest emperor of all the list.

Livid

There followed no carbuncles, no purple or livid spots, the mass of the blood not being tainted.

Loathness

A general silence and loathness to speak.

Loosen

After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening of the earth.

Lucrative

The trade of merchandise being the most lucrative, may bear usury at a good rate.

Luminous

Fire burneth wood, making it . . . luminous.

Lurch

Too far off from great cities, which may hinder business; too near them, which lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear.

Main

Resolved to rest upon the title of Lancaster as the main, and to use the other two . . . but as supporters.

make

He accuseth Neptune unjustly who makes shipwreck a second time.

malign

Witchcraft may be by operation of malign spirits.

Manage

Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold.

mantle

[The] children are clothed with mantles of satin.

March

These troops came to the army harassed with a long and wearisome march.

Mark

The confusion of tongues was a mark of separation.

Marry

Maecenas took the liberty to tell him [Augustus] that he must either marry his daughter [Julia] to Agrippa, or take away his life.

Mate

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death.

Matrimonial

If he relied upon that title, he could be but a king at courtesy, and have rather a matrimonial than a regal power.

Matter

To help the matter, the alchemists call in many vanities out of astrology.

Maw

Bellies and maws of living creatures.

May

For what he [the king] may do is of two kinds; what he may do as just, and what he may do as possible.

Mean

But to speak in a mean, the virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

By this means he had them more at vantage.

Mechanical

We have also divers mechanical arts.

Medium

Whether any other liquors, being made mediums, cause a diversity of sound from water, it may be tried.

Meet

We met with many things worthy of observation.

Memento

Seasonable mementos may be useful.

Menstruum

The proper menstruum to dissolve metal.

Mercy

Examples of justice must be made for terror to some; examples of mercy for comfort to others.

Minister

Ministers to kings, whose eyes, ears, and hands they are, must be answerable to God and man.

Mint

Titles . . . of such natures as may be easily minted.

Mislead

Trust not servants who mislead or misinform you.

Miss

Men observe when things hit, and not when they miss.

Mission

In these ships there should be a mission of three of the fellows or brethren of Solomon's house.

Mix

I have chosen an argument mixed of religious and civil considerations.

Moil

Moil not too much under ground.

Moisten

A pipe a little moistened on the inside.

Molder

The moldering of earth in frosts and sun.

Monitor

You need not be a monitor to the king.

Morality

The end of morality is to procure the affections to obey reason, and not to invade it.

Happy here, and more happy hereafter.

Mortally

Adrian mortally envied poets, painters, and artificers, in works wherein he had a vein to excel.

Mortify

Quicksilver is mortified with turpentine.

Mossy

Old trees are more mossy far than young.

Most

A quarter of a year or some months at the most.

Mote

The little motes in the sun do ever stir, though there be no wind.

mutation

The vicissitude or mutations in the superior globe are no fit matter for this present argument.

Neoteric

Some being ancient, others neoterical.

Nestle

Their purpose was to fortify in some strong place of the wild country, and there nestle till succors came.

New

Men after long emaciating diets, fat, and almost new.

Noddle

For occasion . . . turneth a bald noddle, after she hath presented her locks in front, and no hold taken.

Noise

The heavens turn about in a most rapid motion without noise to us perceived.

Note

Small matters . . . continually in use and in note.

Nourish

Grains and roots nourish more than their leaves.

Number

Number itself importeth not much in armies where the people are of weak courage.

Oaken

Oaken timber, wherewith to build ships.

Oath

An oath of secrecy for the concealing of those [inventions] which we think fit to keep secret.

Oblige

He had obliged all the senators and magistrates firmly to himself.

Obnoxious

The writings of lawyers, which are tied obnoxious to their particular laws.

Obtain

There is due from the judge to the advocate, some commendation, where causes are fair pleaded; especially towards the side which obtaineth not.

Obtenebration

In every megrim or vertigo, there is an obtenebration joined with a semblance of turning round.

Occur

There doth not occur to me any use of this experiment for profit.

Offer

I will not offer at that I can not master.

Office

As for the offices, let them stand at distance.

Ominous

He had a good ominous name to have made a peace.

Omit

These personal comparisons I omit.

Once

Trees that bear mast are fruitful but once in two years.

Onset

There is surely no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

Open

The king opened himself to some of his council, that he was sorry for the earl's death.

Opinion

However, I have no opinion of those things.

Opportunity

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Option

Transplantation must proceed from the option of the people, else it sounds like an exile.

Oration

The lord archbishop . . . made a long oration.

Orb

The schoolmen were like astronomers, which did feign eccentrics, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs.

Ordinary

Spain had no other wars save those which were grown into an ordinary.

ostracism

Public envy is as an ostracism, that eclipseth men when they grow too great.

Out

Leaves are out and perfect in a month.

Over

Certain lakes . . . poison birds which fly over them.

Overbear

The point of reputation, when the news first came of the battle lost, did overbear the reason of war.

overt

Overt and apparent virtues bring forth praise.

Overwet

Another ill accident is, overwet at sowing time.

Pacify

To pacify and settle those countries.

Page

He had two pages of honor -- on either hand one.

pain

We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him.

Pare

The king began to pare a little the privilege of clergy.

Parsimonious

A prodigal king is nearer a tyrant than a parsimonious.

Partake

The attorney of the Duchy of Lancaster partakes partly of a judge, and partly of an attorney-general.

Participle

The participles or confines between plants and living creatures.

Particular

Wheresoever one plant draweth such a particular juice out of the earth.

Particulars which it is not lawful for me to reveal.

Partition

Uniform without, though severally partitioned within.

Passion

Moldable and not moldable, scissible and not scissible, and many other passions of matter.

Pave

It might open and pave a prepared way to his own title.

Pawn

As for mortgaging or pawning, . . . men will not take pawns without use [i. e., interest].

Payment

No man envieth the payment of a debt.

Perceive

The upper regions of the air perceive the collection of the matter of tempests before the air here below.

Perceptible

With a perceptible blast of the air.

Perception

This experiment discovereth perception in plants.

Percuss

Flame percussed by air giveth a noise.

Peremptory

Be not too positive and peremptory.

Period

How by art to make plants more lasting than their ordinary period.

Person

His first appearance upon the stage in his new person of a sycophant or juggler.

Personally

She bore a mortal hatred to the house of Lancaster, and personally to the king.

Picture

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects.

Place

Men in great place are thrice servants.

Plaint

There are three just grounds of war with Spain: one of plaint, two upon defense.

Plant

Planting of countries like planting of woods.

Pleasurable

Planting of orchards is very . . . pleasurable.

Plentiful

If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year.

He that is plentiful in expenses will hardly be preserved from

Ply

The late learners can not so well take the ply.

Pneumatic

The pneumatical substance being, in some bodies, the native spirit of the body.

Point

In point of religion and in point of honor.

Pool

Charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool.

Popularity

Popularities, and circumstances which . . . sway the ordinary judgment.

Populate

Great shoals of people which go on to populate.

Portraiture

Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbors but the portraiture.

Positive

Positive words, that he would not bear arms against King Edward's son.

Positively

Good and evil which is removed may be esteemed good or evil comparatively, and positively simply.

Precipitate

If they be daring, it may precipitate their designs, and prove dangerous.

Precise

The law in this point is not precise.

Preconceive

In a dead plain the way seemeth the longer, because the eye hath preconceived it shorter than the truth.

Predatory

Exercise . . . maketh the spirits more hot and predatory.

Prediction

The predictions of cold and long winters.

Predominant

Those help . . . were predominant in the king's mind.

Prescient

Henry . . . had shown himself sensible, and almost prescient, of this event.

Preservative

To wear tablets as preservatives against the plague.

Prest

Requiring of the city a prest of six thousand marks.

Pretension

This was but an invention and pretension given out by the Spaniards.

Prevent

Strawberries . . . will prevent and come early.

Prevention

The greater the distance, the greater the prevention.

Prick

Some who are pricked for sheriffs.

Primum mobile

The motions of the greatest persons in a government ought to be, as the motions of the planets, under primum mobile.

Privative

Blackness and darkness are indeed but privatives.

Protrude

The parts protrude beyond the skin.

Providence

Providence for war is the best prevention of it.

Provision

Making provision for the relief of strangers.

Prune

Taking into consideration how they [laws] are to be pruned and reformed.

Purview

Profanations within the purview of several statutes.

Put

Sugar hath put down the use of honey.

Putrefy

Private suits do putrefy the public good.

Quality

We lived most joyful, obtaining acquaintance with many of the city not of the meanest quality.

Quarter

I knew two that were competitors for the secretary's place, . . . and yet kept good quarter between themselves.

Question

It is to be to question, whether it be lawful for Christian princes to make an invasive war simply for the propagation of the faith.

He that questioneth much shall learn much.

Race

The flight of many birds is swifter than the race of any beasts.

Rack

The winds in the upper region, which move the clouds above, which we call the rack, . . . pass without noise.

It is in common practice to draw wine or beer from the lees (which we call racking), whereby it will clarify much the sooner.

Rail

They were brought to London all railed in ropes, like a team of horses in a cart.

Reach

The Duke of Parma had particular reaches and ends of his own underhand to cross the design.

Real

Many are perfect in men's humors that are not greatly capable of the real part of business.

Reason

Yet it were great reason, that those that have children should have greatest care of future times.

Reciprocal

Corruption is a reciprocal to generation.

Recreative

Let the music of them be recreative.

Refer

In suits . . . it is to refer to some friend of trust.

Regality

He came partly in by the sword, and had high courage in all points of regality.

Reglement

The reformation and reglement of usury.

Relation

oet's relation doth well figure them.

Replace

The earl . . . was replaced in his government.

Replenish

The humors will not replenish so soon.

Repletion

The tree had too much repletion, and was oppressed with its own sap.

Reprehend

Aristippus being reprehended of luxury by one that was not rich, for that he gave six crowns for a small fish.

Resort

Some . . . know the resorts and falls of business that can not sink into the main of it.

Respect

In orchards and gardens, we do not so much respect beauty as variety of ground for fruits, trees, and herbs.

Respectively

The impressions from the objects or the senses do mingle respectively every one with its kind.

Respondent

Wealth respondent to payment and contributions.

Result

Sound is produced between the string and the air by the return or the result of the string.

Retire

The battle and the retire of the English succors.

Revenge

Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is even with his enemy; but in passing it over he is superior.

Reverence

When discords, and quarrels, and factions, are carried openly and audaciously, it is a sign the reverence of government islost.

Rhetorician

The ancient sophists and rhetoricians, which ever had young auditors, lived till they were an hundred years old.

Rift

Timber . . . not apt to rif with ordnance.

Ring

The ring of acclamations fresh in his ears.

Rise

The ordinary rises and falls of the voice.

Round

Round dealing is the honor of man's nature.

Worms with many feet, which round themselves into balls, are bred chiefly under logs of timber.

Roundel

The Spaniards, casting themselves into roundels, . . . made a flying march to Calais.

Ruffle

They would ruffle with jurors.

Ruin

The errors of young men are the ruin of business.

Run

A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

Sad

Lady Catharine, a sad and religious woman.

Sally

Sallies were made by the Spaniards, but they were beaten in with loss.

Sanguinary

We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences.

Satiate

These [smells] rather woo the sense than satiate it.

Save

Brass ordnance saveth in the quantity of the material.

Scale

Those that cast their shell are the lobster and crab; the old skins are found, but the old shells never; so it is likely that they scale off.

Scant

Where a man hath a great living laid together and where he is scanted.

Scantling

Such as exceed not this scantling; -- to be solace to the sovereign and harmless to the people.

Scour

Warm water is softer than cold, for it scoureth better.

Screen

Some ambitious men seem as screens to princes in matters of danger and envy.

Scrupulous

The justice of that cause ought to be evident; not obscure, not scrupulous.

Seat

He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison.

Secondary

Two are the radical differences; the secondary differences are as four.

Secretary

That which is most of all profitable is acquaintance with the secretaries, and employed men of ambassadors.

Sense

In a living creature, though never so great, the sense and the affects of any one part of the body instantly make a transcursion through the whole.

Sensual

Pleasing and sensual rites and ceremonies.

Sequence

Sequence and series of the seasons of the year.

Sequester

I had wholly sequestered my civil affairss.

A love and desire to sequester a man's self for a higher conversation.

Set

A gathering and serring of the spirits together to resist, maketh the teeth to set hard one against another.

Settle

The wind came about and settled in the west.

Sevenscore

The old Countess of Desmond . . . lived sevenscore years.

Several

Habits and faculties, several, and to be distinguished.

Shady

Cast it also that you may have rooms shady for summer and warm for winter.

Shallow

The sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring.

The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the French king.

A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but upon shallows of gravel.

Sharpen

Inclosures not only preserve sound, but increase and sharpen it.

Sharply

You contract your eye when you would see sharply.

Shatter

Some fragile bodies break but where the force is; some shatter and fly in many places.

Shave

Plants bruised or shaven in leaf or root.

Shine

He [God] doth not rain wealth, nor shine honor and virtues, upon men equally.

Shoot

Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth.

If the menstruum be overcharged, metals will shoot into crystals.

The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot.

Show

As for triumphs, masks, feasts, and such shows.

Shrink

I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room.

Shroud

The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.

Sicken

The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died.

Single

Dogs who hereby can single out their master in the dark.

Sinister

Nimble and sinister tricks and shifts.

Sir

Sir Horace Vere, his brother, was the principal in the active part.

Slide

A better slide into their business.

Slope

A bank not steep, but gently slope.

Smell

That which, above all others, yields the sweetest smell in the air, is the violent.

Smother

Not to keep their suspicions in smother.

Sob

Sobbing is the same thing [as sighing], stronger.

Solar

They denominate some herbs solar, and some lunar.

Solitude

Whosoever is delighted with solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Solution

In all bodies there is an appetite of union and evitation of solution of continuity.

Some

The number slain on the rebel's part were some two thousand.

Sop

Sops in wine, quantity, inebriate more than wine itself.

Sort

Shellfish have been, by some of the ancients, compared and sorted with insects.

The illiberality of parents towards children makes them base, and sort with any company.

They are happy whose natures sort with their vocations.

Sour

All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite.

Spend

The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air.

The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes.

Spirit

All bodies have spirits . . . within them.

Spread

Plants, if they spread much, are seldom tall.

No flower hath spread like that of the woodbine.

Squint

Some can squint when they will.

Stack

Against every pillar was a stack of billets above a man's height.

Stalk

The king . . . crept under the shoulder of his led horse; . . . “I must stalk,” said he.

Stanch

Iron or a stone laid to the neck doth stanch the bleeding of the nose.

Standing

I will provide you a good standing to see his entry.

Start

The start of first performance is all.

State

She instructed him how he should keep state, and yet with a modest sense of his misfortunes.

Stay

The wisdom, stay, and moderation of the king.

Steal

Always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, . . . and do not think to steal it.

Stick

The green caterpillar breedeth in the inward parts of roses not blown, where the dew sticketh.

Sticky

Herbs which last longest are those of strong smell, and with a sticky stalk.

Still

It hath been anciently reported, and is still received.

Stir

Stir not questions of jurisdiction.

Stock

The scion overruleth the stock quite.

Stoop

Where men of great wealth stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly.

Store

The ships are fraught with store of victuals.

Strain

Such take too high a strain at first.

Straiten

Waters, when straitened, as at the falls of bridges, give a roaring noise.

Stream

The herald's mantle is streamed with gold.

String

Duckweed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom.

Stroke

He entered and won the whole kingdom of Naples without striking a stroke.

Stuff

Put roses into a glass with a narrow mouth, stuffing them close together . . . and they retain smell and color.

Stupefy

It is not malleable; but yet is not fluent, but stupefied.

Subsidy

They advised the king to send speedy aids, and with much alacrity granted a great rate of subsidy.

Substantive

He considered how sufficient and substantive this land was to maintain itself without any aid of the foreigner.

Success

Men . . . that are like to do that, that is committed to them, and to report back again faithfully the success.

Suck

The crown had sucked too hard, and now, being full, was like to draw less.

Suit

Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again.

Sully

Silvering will sully and canker more than gilding.

Sum

The mind doth value every moment, and then the hour doth rather sum up the moments, than divide the day.

Superintend

The king may appoint a council, who may superintend the works of this nature.

Supplicate

A man can not brook to supplicate or beg.

Supporter

The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured.

Surcease

It is time that there were an end and surcease made of this immodest and deformed manner of writing.

Surcharge

A numerous nobility causeth poverty and inconvenience in a state, for it is surcharge of expense.

Suspect

Nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little; and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more.

Suspicion

Suspicions among thoughts are like bats among birds, they ever fly by twilight.

Sway

The balance sways on our part.

Symbolize

The pleasing of color symbolizeth with the pleasing of any single tone to the ear; but the pleasing of order doth symbolize with harmony.

Table

Tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation.

Take

They that come abroad after these showers are commonly taken with sickness.

You take me right.

The ancients took up experiments upon credit.

When flame taketh and openeth, it giveth a noise.

In impressions from mind to mind, the impression taketh, but is overcome . . . before it work any manifest effect.

Temperature

The best composition and temperature is, to have openness in fame and opinion, secrecy in habit, dissimulation in seasonable use, and a power to feign, if there be no remedy.

Tensible

Gold . . . is likewise the most flexible and tensible.

Tenter

Woolen cloth will tenter, linen scarcely.

Term

Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as nature's two terms, or boundaries.

Theater

For if a man can be partaker of God's theater, he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest.

Thin

In the day, when the air is more thin.

Spain is thin sown of people.

Thought

Hawis was put in trouble, and died with thought and anguish before his business came to an end.

Ticklish

Surely princes had need, in tender matters and ticklish times, to beware what they say.

Timber

Such dispositions are the very errors of human nature; and yet they are the fittest timber to make politics of.

Time

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

Tissue

Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue.

Together

The king joined humanity and policy together.

Tolerance

Diogenes, one frosty morning, came into the market place, shaking, to show his tolerance.

torture

The bow tortureth the string.

Touch

Strong waters pierce metals, and will touch upon gold, that will not touch upon silver.

Speech of touch toward others should be sparingly used.

A small touch will put him in mind of them.

Tract

The discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness.

Transcend

Such popes as shall transcend their limits.

Transcendence

“Where transcendencies are more allowed.”

Trumpet

They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish.

Trumpeter

These men are good trumpeters.

Turn

Cygnets from gray turn white.

Twenty

Maximilian, upon twenty respects, could not have been the man.

Under

Fruit put in bottles, and the bottles let down into wells under water, will keep long.

Up

In going up a hill, the knees will be most weary; in going down, the thihgs.

Upon

He made a great difference between people that did rebel upon wantonness, and them that did rebel upon want.

Use

Books can never teach the use of books.

Fears use to be represented in an imaginary.

Usury

Usury . . . bringeth the treasure of a realm or state into a few nds.

Vainglory

He had nothing of vainglory.

Value

The mind doth value every moment.

Vapor

Running waters vapor not so much as standing waters.

Vein

Certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins.

Vendible

The regulating of prices of things vendible.

Verify

This is verified by a number of examples.

Version

The version of air into water.

Vindicative

Vindicative persons live the life of witches, who, as they are mischievous, so end they infortunate.

Virtual

Heat and cold have a virtual transition, without communication of substance.

Vivify

Sitting on eggs doth vivify, not nourish.

Voice

It was voiced that the king purposed to put to death Edward Plantagenet.

Votary

Votary resolution is made equipollent to custom.

Voyage

Nations have interknowledge of one another by voyage into foreign parts, or strangers that come to them.

Wainscot

Music soundeth better in chambers wainscoted than hanged.

Weal

As we love the weal of our souls and bodies.

Weariness

A man would die, though he were neither valiant nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing so oft over and over.

Weed

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Weigh

A young man not weighed in state affairs.

Weight

A man leapeth better with weights in his hands.

What

See what natures accompany what colors.

Whether it were the shortness of his foresight, the strength of his will, . . . or what it was.

Whisper

The inward voice or whisper can not give a tone.

Wildfire

Brimstone, pitch, wildfire . . . burn cruelly, and hard to quench.

Wincopipe

There is small red flower in the stubble fields, which country people call the wincopipe; which if it opens in the morning, you may be sure a fair day will follow.

Without

Wise men will do it without a law.

Wonder

To try things oft, and never to give over, doth wonders.

Work

The working of beer when the barm is put in.

Wring

The king began to find where his shoe did wring him.

Yet

Men may not too rashly believe the confessions of witches, nor yet the evidence against them.

Yonder

Yonder men are too many for an embassage.

Zealant

To certain zealants, all speech of pacification is odious.