articular sentence: "The world
runs all on wheels" a bad rendering.

[62] B. III, Chap. 3.

[63] B. II, Chap. 17.

[64] It may fairly be laid down as practically certain, from
what we know of the habit of circulating works in manuscript
at that period, and from what Florio tells us in his
preface, that translations of some of the essays had been
passed about before Florio's folio was printed. [65] _Varia
Historia_, XII, 23.

[66] The story certainly had a wide vogue, being found in
Aristotle, _Eudemian Ethics_, iii, 1, and in Nicolas of
Damascus; while Strabo (vii, ii. Sec. 1) gives it further
currency by contradicting it as regards the Cimbri.

[67] B. II, Chap. 5.

[68] B. II, Chap. 3.

[69] Richard III, I, 4; V, 3.

[70] _The Influence of Seneca on Elizabethan Tragedy_, 1893,
p. 80-5.

[71] Actus III, 865-866.

[72] Actus IV, 1526-7.

[73] This in turn is an echo from the Greek. See note in
Doering's edition.

[74] See Boswell's edition of Malone's Shakspere, _in loc._

[75] Yet again, in Marston's _Insatiate Countess_, the
commentators have noticed the same sentiment.

"Death, From whose stern cave none tracks a backward path."

It was in fact a poetic commonplace.

[76] Act 5, Scene 6.

[77] Act v, sc. 1.

[78] I, 22.

[79] 2 _H. IV_, iv. 3

[80] ii, 2

[81] ii, 10.

[82] So far as I remember, the idea of suicide as a
desertion of one's post without the deity's permission is
first found, in English literature, in Sidney, and he would
find it in Montaigne's essay on the _Custom of the Isle of
Cea_ (edit. Firmin-Didot, i. 367).

[83] When this is compared with the shorter speech of
similar drift in the anonymous play of _Edward III._ ("To
die is all as common as to live" etc., Act iv., sc. 4) it
will be seen that the querying form as well as the
elaboration constitutes a special resemblance between the
speech in Shakspere and the passages in Montaigne

[84] _APOLOGY OF RAYMOND SEBONDE._

[85] ii, 6, _Of Exercise or Practice_.

[86] _Apology._

[87] _Ibid._, near end.

[88] _On Isis and Osiris_, c. 26.

[89] Canto v.

[90] Canto xxxii.

[91] It would seem to be from those early monkish legends
that the mediaeval Inferno was built up. The torture of cold
was the northern contribution to the scheme. Compare Warton,
_History of English Poetry_, sec. 49, and Wright'