t 1605 in a
copy of the book in the British Museum) turned the sentence into English
thus: 'Whether a young man may bee a fitte scholler of _morall_
philosophie.' In 1622 an Italian essayist, Virgilio Malvezzi, in his
preface to his _Discorsi sopra Cornelio Tacito_, has the remark, 'E non e
discordante da questa mia opinione Aristotele, it qual dice, che i
giovani non sono buoni ascultatori delle _morali_' (cf. Spedding, _Works
of Bacon_, i. 739, iii. 440).

{371} Cf. Birch, _Letters of Bacon_, 1763, p. 392. A foolish suggestion
has been made that Matthew was referring to Francis Bacon's brother
Anthony, who died in 1601; Matthew was writing of a man who was alive
more than twenty years later.

{372} Cf. _Life_ by Theodore Bacon, London, 1888.

{374a} See pp. 4, 77, 127.

{374b} See p. 126.

{375a} Gervase Markham, _Honour in his Perfection_, 1624.

{375b} _Loseley MSS._ ed. A. J. Kempe, p. 240.

{375c} His mother, after thirteen years of widowhood, married in 1594
Sir Thomas Heneage, vice chamberlain of Queen Elizabeth's household; but
he died within a year, and in 1596 she took a third husband, Sir William
Hervey, who distinguished himself in military service in Ireland and was
created a peer as Lord Hervey by James I.

{376a} By kind permission of the Marquis of Salisbury I lately copied
out this essay at Hatfield.

{376b} In 1588 his brother-in-law, Thomas Arundel, afterwards first Lord
Arundel of Wardour (husband of his only sister, Mary), petitioned Lord
Burghley to grant him an additional tract of the New Forest about his
house at Beaulieu. Although in his 'nonage,' Arundel wrote, the Earl was
by no means 'of the smallest hope.' Arundel, with almost prophetic
insight, added that the Earl of Pembroke was Southampton's 'most feared
rival' in the competition for the land in question. Arundel was
referring to the father of that third Earl of Pembroke who, despite the
absence of evidence, has been described as Shakespeare's friend of the
sonnets (cf. _Calendar of Hatfield MSS._ iii. 365).

{377a} Cf. _Apollinis et Musarum [Greek text]_, Oxford, 1592, reprinted
in _Elizabethan Oxford_ (Oxford Historical Society), edited by Charles
Plummer, xxix. 294:

_Comes_ Post hunc (_i.e._ Earl of Essex)
_South-_ insequitur clara de stirpe Dynasta
_Hamp-_ Iure suo diues quem South-Hamptonia
_toniae_.