propter duritiem cordis, i. 47; its discommodities
and commodities, i. 47; all states have had it, i. 47;
none such as that of improving lands, ii. 387.

VACUUM, whether it exists at all, theory of, ii. 578.
Vain-glory, essay on, i. 57.

Valerius Terminus, a rudiment of the advancement of
learning, i. 8; on the interpretation of nature, i.

81.

Vanities in studies, i. 169.

Vanity of matter is worse than vain words, i. 170.
Vanity in apparel should be avoided, ii, 386.
Valour, and military disposition, greatness too often
ascribed to, ii. 222; of the Spaniard lieth in the eye
of the looker on, ii. 222; English about the soldier's
heart, ii. 213; of glory and of natural courage are
two things, ii. 213.

Vapour, of charcoal, dangerous, ii. 127; emission of
spirits in, ii. 126,

Vatican, scarce a very fair room in it, i. 50.
Venetians, their sharing part of the duchy of Milan
a cause of much loss to them, ii. 202; confederacy
against their power, ii. 205; their fear of the
Spaniards sharpened by their enterprise upon the
Valtoline and the Palatinate, ii. 213, 214.
Vegetables and metals, mixture of, ii. 459.
Vegetables in the mines of Germany, ii. 76.
Velleius's ironical propensity to be avoided, i. 174.
Venice, remark of a Spanish ambassador, on seeing
their treasury of St. Mark, ii. 201, 213.
Ventriloquism, ii. 40.

Venus and Mercury, a question which is higher than
the other, ii. 580; Venus, change of its colour in
the reign of Ogyges, and in 1578, ii. 582.
Venus, i. 299; danger of abstinence to certain natures,
ii. 92; experiments touching, ii. 91; when men
most inclined to, ii. 92.

Vercelles in Savoy, the Spaniards leave it, ii. 200.
Vermilion, how made, ii. 461.

R. Cotton, ii. 515; letter to, upon Somerset's trial,
ii. 518.

Vinegar, experiment touching, ii. 123; virtue of, ii

127.

Vinegar with spirits of wine, ii. 465.

Vines, grafting of, upon vines, ii. 88; on making them
more fruitful, ii. 13.

Vineyard, the arrest of the ship so named in Sardinia,
by the Spaniards, ii. 196.

Viol and lute, use of the perforations made in them,
iii. 544.

Violets, what an infusion of good for, ii. 9.
Virginal string, sound of, ii. 8.

Virginia and Summer Islands, ii. 285.
Virgil, his saying respecting courage, i. 36; his charac-
ter of ancient Italy, i. 37; prophecy of the Roman
empire, i. 43; his Georgics, i. 219; his separation
between policy and government, and arts and
sciences, i. 164; his opinion of causes and conquests
of all fears, i. 182.

Virtue would lanquish without glory and honour,
i. 73.

Virtues of bishops, ii. 414.
Virtues, private, improved by learning, i. 181; their
multiplication rests upon well ordained societies, i.
46; overt virtues bring forth praise, but there are
secret virtues that bring forth fortune, i. 46; best
in a comely body, i. 48; praise the reflection of, i.
56; receives its due at the second hand, i. 57; called
by the epicures bonum theatrale, i. 73; the answer
to that, i. 73.

Visibles and audibles, consent and dissent between,
ii. 41.

Vitellius undone by a fame scattered by Mucianus,
i. 62.

Vitrification of earth, ii. 21.

Vitrification of metals, ii. 461, 462.

Vitriol, commixed with oil of cloves, ii. 465; sprouts
with moisture, ii. 81.

Vernon, Lady, her case before the Lord Chancellor Vivification, nature of, ii. 92.
Bacon, ii. 523.

Vere, Sir Francis, his private commentary of the
service in the Low Countries and of the battle of
Newport, ii. 211; the direction of the army that
day transmitted to him by the Prince of Orange, ii.

211.

Vere, Sir Horace, his service at the battle of Newport,
ii. 211.

Verge, subjects within jurisdiction of the, ii. 290.
jurisdiction of, ii. 290; charges judicial upon the
commission for the, ii. 289; description of the, ii.
290.

Versatility of mind, i. 235.
Version of metals, ii. 459.
Version of air into water, ii. 10.

Vespasian, his speech to Domitian, i. 112; his death,
i. 12; Mucianus's encouragement to him to take
arms against Vitellius, i. 14; Tacitus's character of
him, i. 20; saying of, i. 110, 117.
Vibulenus, the actor, his device, i. 218.
Vice avowed is least to be feared, i. 175.
Vicious men, not so dangerous as half-corrupt, i. 175.
Vicious precepts, i. 237.

Vicissitude of things, essay on, i. 60.

Villiers', Sir George, letters to Ireland, ii. 190, 191;
advice to, in the station of prime minister, ii. 375;
letter to, on Somerset's arraignment, ii. 330; letter
of, to Sir F. Bacon, concerning Lord Chief Justice
Coke, ii. 498; letter to, about the Earl of Somerset,
ii. 326; letter to, on Lady Somerset's pardon, ii.
331; letter to, ii. 491; F. Bacon to, touching Sir

Voice, divine, above the light of nature, i. 329.
Voices of eunuchs and children, ii. 33.
Volatility and fixation of metals, ii. 461, 462.
Vorstius, the heretic, ii. 46.

Vulcan, compared with flame, ii. 12; a second nature
working compendiously, i. 195.

WAADE, lieutenant of the Tower, removed, ii. 324.
Wales, prince of, ii. 381.

Wales, prince of, Henry, letter to, in 1612, with the
third edition of the essays, i. 3.
Walls, stone ones unwholesome, ii. 128.
Walsingham, Mr. Secretary, good intelligence received
in his time, ii. 215.

Wandering mind fixed by mathematics, i. 199.
War, its true sinews, ii. 157, 225; generally causes
of poverty and consumption, ii. 201; requisites to a
successful war, ii. 199, 202; defensive wars for
religion are just, ii. 202; unjust offensive wars, evil
effects of, illustrated by the insidious surprisal of
Thebes by the Lacedæmonians, ii. 202; and by the
Venetians sharing Milan, ii. 202; a voluntary
offensive war turned to a necessary defensive war,
becomes just, ii. 203; fear a sufficient ground of
preventive war, ii. 203-205; many illustrations
of it, ii. 203-205; a secret war is ever between
all states, ii. 204; multis utile bellum, ii. 227; re-
quisites for, typified, i. 293; lawful cause of, i. 27;
warlike people love danger better than travail, i. 38;
religious questions on, ii. 444; holy, advertisement
touching, ii. 436; holy, extent of, ii. 440; holy, ii.

435; to disseminate Christianity, ii. 440; on pirates,
ii. 442; against Turks, ii. 438; on an invasive, ii.
288; keeping fit men ready for, ii. 384; as to pro-
viding against, ii. 384; to propagate Christianity,
ii. 439; on behalf of a party not justifiable, i. 38;
a just, the true exercise to a kingdom, i. 38; en-
couragement of warriors greater among the ancients
than the moderns, i. 39.

War and peace, the crown invested with an absolute
power of making, ii. 197; petitions in Parliament
intermeddling with, receive small success, ii. 197;
several precedents thereof, ii. 197, 198.
Wars, not entered upon unless upon some at least
specious ground, i. 38; vicissitudes in, i. 61; moved
from east to west, i. 61; arise from the breaking
of a great state, i. 61; foreign, neither just nor
fit, ii. 383; different sorts, ii. 383; no massacres,
but the highest trials of right between princes, ii.
242; nothing in them ought to be done against the
law of nations, ii. 242.

War with Spain, notes of a speech on, ii. 199; con-
siderations touching, ii. 201.

Ward, when a woman shall be out of, ii. 489.
Wards and tenures, speech on, ii. 273.
Wards, care of, by the king, ii. 276; directions for the
masters of the, ii. 275.

Warren's, Sir W., conference with Tyrone, ii. 351,
Warts, how removed, ii. 135.

Warbeck, see Perkin Warbeck.

Warwick, Earl of, see Plantagenet.

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Welsh judges, ii, 379.
Wells on the sea-shore, ii. 7.
Wens and corns, how removed, ii. 136.
Wentworth, Sir John, charge against, for scandal,
ii. 307.

West Indies, cannibals in the, ii. 10.
Weston, confession of, ii. 317.
Whelps, time they are in the womb, ii. 102.
Whey, mixture of, with oil of vitriol, ii. 465.
Whispering, interior sound, ii. 34.
Whispering wall at Gloucester, ii. 30.
Whitehead's answer to Queen Elizabeth, i. 122.
Whitelock, Mr., pardoned, ii. 509; charge against,
ii. 508.
Whiteness, directions to produce it, i. 89; in snow or
froth, how formed, i. 197.
Wildfire, materials of, ii. 106.
Wilford, Ralph, personates the Earl of Warwick, i. 370.
Willy mott, Dr., specimen of his translation of the
Latin edition of the Essays, i. 6.

Will of man, i. 218; produces actions, i. 206 ; obedient,
and admits medicines to alter it, i. 105.
Winch, Sir Humphrey, ii. 477.

Winchester, Bishop of, Lord Bacon's letter to, concern-
ing his essays, i. 4.

Wind, the healthfulness of the southern, ii. 106;
gathering of, for freshness, ii. 105; effect of, on
plants, ii. 87; a perennial east wind within the tro-
pics, iii. 526; in Europe, east wind, why sharp and
dry, and south-west humid, iii. 526.

Warham, Dr., his speech to the Archduke Philip, i. Wind furnace, its use in separating metals, ii. 460.

350.

Washing, soft water best for, ii. 58.

Waste, injunctions against, ii. 481; case of impeach-
ment of, iii. 268.

Water, salt, experiments on, ii. 7; oysters fattened by
fresh, ii. 94; sea-fish put into fresh, ii. 94; into
crystal, congealing, ii. 54; turns to crystal, ii. 463;
in a glass, weight of, ii. 464; of Nilus sweet,
ii. 103; aptness to corrupt or putrefy, ii. 109
practice of getting fresh, in Barbary, ii. 7; stilli-
cides of, ii. 10; sand better than earth for strain-
ing, ii. 7; clarifying, ii. 8; dulcoration of salt,
ii. 121; rising, loses its saltness sooner than by
falling in straining, ii. 7; turning into ice, ii. 10
boiling of, to different heats, ii. 90; working of,
upon air, contiguous, ii. 119; version of, into
air, ii. 21; version of air into, ii. 10; that it may
be the medium of sounds, ii. 107; Methusalem,
use of, ii. 467; a great nourisher, ii. 86; Pinda-
rus's true parable, the best thing is water, ii.
234; goodness and choice of, ii. 58; Cæsar's
knowledge of digging for, ii. 7; theory of Thales,
that it is the prime element, discussed, i. 438.
Water-cresses, friendly to life, ii. 53.

Waters, colour of different, ii. 120; metalline, ii. 21;
sounds in, ii. 33.

Watery vapours, drawn by wool and cloves, ii. 20.
Wax, mixture of dissolved, ii. 465.

Weapons, vicissitudes in, i. 61.

Weather-glass, contracting of air in the, ii. 10.
Weather, prognostics and signs of, ii. 89.
Wedlock hinders men from great designs, i. 16.
Weeks, Jack, saying of his, i. 125.

Weight, experiment touching, ii. 106; separation of
liquids by, ii. 8; air and water, experiments made
about, ii. 464; separation of bodies by, ii. 8; increase
ol, it earth, ii. 100

Weights of bodies in water, uses to which the know-
ledge of, applied, ii. 463; in water, experiments on,
ii. 463.

Winds, effect of, on men's bodies, ii. 57; inquisition
concerning the winds, iii. 438; names of, iii. 440;
free, iii. 441; general, iii. 441; stayed or certain,
iii. 442; customary or attending, iii. 443; the quali-
ties and powers of, iii. 444; local beginnings of, iii.
447; accidental generations of, iii. 449; extraordi-
nary winds and sudden blasts, iii. 449; helps to
original, iii. 450; the bounds of, iii. 452; succes-
sions of, iii. 452; the motion of the, iii. 453; mo-
tion of, in the sails of ships, iii. 455; motion of, in
other engines of man's invention, iii. 457; prognos-
tics of, iii. 458; imitations of, iii. 461; movable
rules concerning, iii. 462; a human map, or opta-
tives, with such things as are next to them concern-
ing, iii. 463.

Windsor, the alms knights of, opinion of their institu-
tion, ii. 240.

Wine, experiments touching the correcting of, ii.
250; separates from water, if strained through ivy-
wood, ii. 7; spirits of, mixed with water, ii. 465;
help or hurt of, moderately used, ii. 98; for the
spirits, ii. 466; against adverse melancholy, ii. 466.
Wings of Icarus, ii. 335.

Winter, touching creatures who sleep all, ii. 123;
effect on attractive properties of different bodies,
ii. 466.

Winters, prognostics of hard, ii. 99.

Wisdom and power, difference between, apparent in
the creation, i. 174.

Wisdom, an example of, i. 176; divine, i. 174; true
knowledge is, i. 174.

Wisdom of the Ancients, i. 271, 285, 174; translation
of, by Sir A. Georges, i. 273; notice of, in Biogra-
phia Britannica, i. 272.

Wise, essay of seeming, i. 33; persons that do little
things very solemnly, i. 33; wise men ascribe their
virtues to fortune, i. 46; use studies, i. 55; make
more opportunities than they find, i. 56.
Wit, impediments in, may be wrought out by fit stu-
dies, i. 55; its better use, to make doubts clear, ii.

278; one of its uses to make clear things doubtful, | Writ, of "ne exeat regnum,” ii. 484.
ii. 278.

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