Footnote:

    {1}EdwardWotton,elderbrotherofSirHenryWotton.HewasknightedbyElizabethin1592,andmadeptrollerofherHousehold.

    ObservetheplayfulnessinSidneysopeningandcloseofatreatisewrittenthroughoutinplain,manlyEnglishwithoutEuphuism,andstrictlyreasoned.

    {2}Heretheintroduends,andtheargumentbeginswithitsPart1.PoetrythefirstLight-giver.

    {3}Afablefromthe"Hetamythium"ofLaurentiusAbstemius,ProfessorofBellesLettresatUrbino,andLibrariantoDukeGuidoUbaldouhePontificateofAlexanderVI.(1492-1503).

    {4}Plinysays("Nat.Hist.,"lib.xi.,cap.62)thattheyoungvipers,impatienttobeborhroughthesideoftheirmother,andsokillher.

    {5}Part2.BorrowedfrombyPhilosophers.

    {6}Timaeus,thePythagoreanphilosopherofLocri,ahenianCritiasarerepresentedbyPlatoashavinglistehediscourseofSocratesonaRepublic.Socratescallsooshowsuchastateina.CritiaswilltelloftherescueofEuropebytheacitizensofAttica,10,000yearsbefore,fromaninroadoftlessinvaderswhocamefromthevastislandofAtlantis,iernO;astruggleofwhichrecordreservediempleofNaithorAtheSais,i,andhandeddown,throughSolon,byfamilytraditiontoCritias.ButfirstTimaeusagreestoexpouructureoftheuniverse;thenCritias,inapieceleftunfinishedbyPlato,proceedstoshowanidealsocietyinaagainstpressureofadahatseemsirresistible.

    {7}Platos"Republic,"bookii.

    {8}Part3.BorrowedfrombyHistorians.

    {9}Part4.HoheRomansasSacredandProphetic.

    {10}Part5.AndreallysacredandprophetithePsalmsofDavid.

    {11}Part6.Byt