11
St. Luke xviii. 8: “Nevertheless, when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith upon the earth?”
12
“The array of the death-bed has more terrors than death itself.” This quotation is from Seneca.
13
He probably alludes to the custom of hanging the room in black where the body of the deceased lay, a practice much more usual in Bacon’s time than at the present day.
14
Tacit. Hist. ii. 49.
15
Ad Lucil. 77.
16
“Reflect how often you do the same things; a man may wish to die, not only because either he is brave or wretched, but even because he is surfeited with life.”
17
“Livia, mindful of our union, live on, and fare thee well.”—Suet. Aug. Vit. c. 100.
18
“His bodily strength and vitality were now forsaking Tiberius, but not his duplicity.”—Ann. vi. 50.