“After the lapse of years, ages will come in which Ocean shall relax his chains around the world, and a vast continent shall appear, and Tiphys shall explore new regions, and Thule shall be no longer the utmost verge of earth.”—Sen. Med. ii. 375.

“The eighty-eighth will be a wondrous year.”

“He is the best asserter of the liberty of his mind, who bursts the chains that gall his breast, and at the same moment ceases to grieve.”—This quotation is from Ovid’s Remedy of Love, 293.

Lord Bacon seems to use the word in the general sense of “lending money upon interest.”

“Drive from their hives the drones, a lazy race.”—Georgics, b. iv. 168.

This formed the first essay in the earliest edition of the work.

“And leave their lives in the wound.” The quotation is from Virgil’s Georgics, iv. 238.

This fragment was found among Lord Bacon’s papers, and published by Dr. Rawley in his Resuscitatio.