the Idea's of Plato. To Plato idea meant an eternally existing pattern of a class of things. Of the pattern the individual things are imperfect copies, and from it they derive their existence. his summum bonum: Aristotle's chief good, as the ultimately determining principle in his system of ethics: viz. evdaiμovía, well-being, felicity. Chimæra: wild fancy. PAGE 114. in whose defect: for want of which. Metaphor: figure, trope. a story out of Pliny: and therefore, marvellous, incredible. See p. 30. a tale of Boccace or Malizspini: a mere romance, a mere fable. Boccaccio (1313-1375) was the great Italian storyteller, author of the Decameron. Malespini, born about 1540, was the author of Ducento Novelle. neat: pure, unadulterated. = Cæsar: has been explained as absolute monarch, autocrat -a meaning found, e.g. in Shakespeare, Richard III, Iv. iv. 336. Compare the use of kayser. Browne, however, might be alluding to the great Dictator, Caius Julius Cæsar; or he might be employing the word as the title of the Roman Emperors from 30 A.D. to about 140. So in Matthew xxii. 21: "Render therefore unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar's.” conformant, 178 confound, 134 conjunctions, 245 consequence, 117, 155 consist, 119 consorts, 118 Constance, Council of, 161 constellated, 221 construction, 239 conversation, 117, 246 converse, 117 conversion, 138, 203 countrey, 240 crambe, 262 crany, 180 crasis, 180 Cretians, 231 curiosity, 152, 166 damnable, 217 dastards, 238 Defenda me, 248 define, 163 Delphos, 133, 166, 199 excess, 118 extemporary, 173 familiarly, 154 first moveable, 176 gale, 172 - gramercy, 142 Grand Seignour, 143 |