APPENDIX No. V. COLLATIONS OF SOME OLD EDITIONS OF "RELIGIO MEDICI." THE The following is a list of the variations that have been noticed in the two unauthorized editions, published in 1642 (called respectively A and B) :— 13. langue 3. metempsycocis 15. 5. alarum eutelechia creature THIS ED. A. (II. 23.) 9. I. rech IO. 20. 19. 28. 31. ult. 29. 34. ult. 40. 8. 'Tis not 40. 10. Sortileges 40. ult. "Tis, I confess 32. 20. 41. 8. 'Tis a most 'tis an errour 'tis satisfaction 'tis not partiality 48. I. 'twill be 39. 5. 50. 16. 40. 31. 53. 16. excesse alarm creatures it is not partiality it will be conclude one nor Megasthenes of philosophy in all their sagacity divine The Errata in ed. 1643 (C) are so important, and have been so often overlooked, (in consequence of the leaf containing them being frequently missing,) that they are here reprinted : : The following is a list of the variations that have been noticed in two copies of ed. 1645 (called respectively. ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA. P. 107, 1. 14. Keck thinks that by Nero Sir T. B. meant Tiberius, "whose name was Nero too," viz. Tiberius Claudius Nero Cæsar; but perhaps it is more probable that he simply confused the two Emperors. P. 119, 1. 28. at last, A, B, C, M; probably all the other old edd. have at least. This reading, and also the punctuation of p. 120. 11. 22, 23, are discussed in Notes and Queries, 1880, vol. ii., pp. 245, 451. It P. 267. In the note on p. 63, 1. 11, Sir T. B.'s lost or projected Dialogue between two unborn infants is called a "whimsical conceit," and treated as a mere jeu d'esprit. may have been so, and so Wilkin in his note on this passage appears to have taken it; but upon further consideration it seems more likely to have been a serious, philosophical attempt to 'handsomely illustrate our ignorance of the next world (Urn Burial, ch. 4) by the inability of the unborn infants to understand the condition of this. Χαλεπὸν ἄνθρωπον ὄντα μὴ διαμαρτάνειν ἐν πολλοῖς, τὰ μὲν ὅλως ἀγνοήσαντα, τὰ δὲ κακῶς κρίναντα, τὰ δὲ ἀμελέστερον γράψαντα. (Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Loc. ii. I. tom. xii. p. 535.) |