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.

Most of these fables are contained in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Fasti, and are fully explained in Bohn’s Classical Library translation.

Homer’s Hymn to Pan.

Ovid, Rem. Amoris, v. 343. Mart. Epist.

Ovid, Metam. b. iv.

Ovid’s Metamorphoses, b. iii., iv., and vi.; and Fasti, iii. 767.