f textual coincidence in the two authors.

[40] Act I, Scene 4.

[41] B. II, Chap. 33.

[42] It is further relevant to note that in the essay _Of
Drunkenness_ (ii. 2) Montaigne observes that "drunkenness
amongst others appeareth to me a gross and brutish vice,"
that "the worst estate of man is where he loseth the
knowledge and government of himself," and that "the grossest
and rudest nation that liveth amongst us at this day, is
only that which keepeth it in credit." The reference is to
Germany: but Shakspere in _Othello_ (Act II, Sc. 3) makes
Iago pronounce the English harder drinkers than either the
Danes or the Hollanders; and the lines:

"This heavy-headed revel, east and west,
Makes us traduced and taxed of other nations;
They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase,
Soil our addition."

might also be reminiscent of Montaigne, though of course
there is nothing peculiar in such a coincidence.

[43] B. III, Chap. 7.

[44] B. III, Chap. 4.

[45] B. III, Chap. 10.

[46] B. III, Chap. 2.

[47] B. III, Chap. 13.

[48] B. I, Chap. 38.

[49] B. III, Chap. 4.

[50] B. I, Chap. 40.

[51] B. II, Chap. 8.

[52] B. II, Chap. 18.

[53] _De Officus_ i, 4: _cf._ 30.

[54] 1534, 1558, 1583, 1600. See also the compilation
entitled _A Treatise of Morall Philosophie_ by W. Baudwin,
4th enlargement by T. Paulfreyman. 1600, pp. 44-46, where
there is a closely parallel passage from Zeno as well as
that of Cicero.

[55] Mr. Feis makes this attribution.

[56] B. II, Chap. 1.

[57] This may fairly be argued, perhaps, even of the
somewhat close parallel, noted by Mr. Feis, between Laertes'
lines (I, 3):

"For nature, crescent, does not grow alone
In thews and bulk, but as this temple waxes
The inward service of the mind and soul
Grows wide withal,"

and Florio's rendering of an extract from Lucretius in the
_Apology_

"The mind is with the body bred, we do behold.
It jointly grows with it, it waxeth old."

Only the slight coincidence of the use of the (then
familiar) verb "wax" in both passages could suggest
imitation in the case of such a well-worn commonplace.

[58] See some cited at the close of this essay in another
connection.

[59] B. II, Chap. 12.

[60] Act IV, Scene 3.

[61] "_Le monde est un branloire perenne_" (Book III, Essay
2). Florio translates that p