Bacon's Essays, with annotations by Richard Whately and notes and a glossarial index, by Franklin Fiske Heard.

NOTES. 611
p. 398, 1. 3. " queching." Lat. vix ejulatu aut gemitu ullo emisso.
The Translator, says Mr. Wright, evidently understood " cqleching" in the sense of screeching, crying out, but Mr. Singer is of
opinion it is the same as wincing or flinching.
p. 398, 1. 18. "late learners cannot so well take up the ply." Here
we see the same sense as in the compound apply, — the bending
or turning the mind to any matter. This word is again used as
a substantive in the " Adv. of Learning o"
In some other it is a lothness to leese labours passed, and a conceit that they can bring about occasions to their ply. —Works,
III. 465.
In this passage Bacon uses the word as almost equal to purpose:
"can bring occasion to their ply," - i.e. "can bend circumstances to their service," etc.
p. 398, 1. 26. "exaltation." Tyrwhitt's note on the Wife of Bath's
prologue (Chaucer, C. T. 1. 6284) explains this word;In the old astrology, a planet was said to be in its exaltation,
when it was in that sign of the zodiac, in which it is supposed to
exert its strongest influence. The opposite sign was called its dejection, as in that it was supposed to be weakest.- WRIGHT.
ESSAY XLI.
p. 416, 1. 10. "orange-tawny bonnets."
Vecellio, a Venetian, expressly informs us that the Jews differed
in nothing, as far as regarded dress, from Venetians of the same
professions, whether merchants, artisans, etc., with the exception of
a yellow bonnet, which they were compelled to wear by order of' the
government.- KNIGHT'S Shakespeare, Comedies, vol. I. p. 398.
So also Sir Walter Scott's description of Isaac of York in
"Ivanhoe," ch. V.:
He wore a high square yellow cap of a peculiar fashion, assigned
to his nation to distinguish them from Christians.
p. 417, 1. 29. " presently." Immediately.
Therefore the word of God, being set forth in Greek, becometh
hereby like a candle set upon a candlestick, which giveth light to all
that are in the house; or like a proclamation sounded forth in the
market-place, which most men presently take knowledge of.- BIBLE.
1611. The Translators to the Reader.