Chapter

 1      Pre|             that of Hermes Stella. It may be conjectured that by the
 2      Pre|               much more.~However this may be, the tract is undoubtedly
 3      Not|               before Bacon touched it may be thus described.~ A titlepage,
 4      Not|              figures 1603 occur. This may possibly be the transcriber’
 5      Not| Interpretation of Nature:” to which I may add that there is in the
 6      Not|             Bacon’s corrections, if I may judge from the character
 7      Not|              essentials man’s inquiry may be the more awake in deducing
 8      Not|                to charge and tax what may be reasonably exacted or
 9      Not|            the fragment which we have may be (as there is reason to
10      Not|            made from time to time. We may know perhaps that when Bacon
11      Not|      afterwards became acquainted; we may find in one of these fragments,—
12      Not|              after it was written, he may have observed and corrected
13      Not|          might be too long a work. He may have inserted a particular
14        1|               I cannot tell whether I may so plainly speak as truly
15        1|             God’s own planting, so it may seem the spreading and flourishing
16        1|               his understanding as he may.~But yet evermore it must
17        1|               revolutions and periods may be delayed. The other that
18        4|            deliver it in such form as may be soonest believed, and
19        4|          soonest believed, and not as may be easiliest examined. He
20        8|           knowledges, so far forth as may appertain to the handling
21        8|            the law, or the like, they may prove ready and subtile,
22        8|                or as military science may have use of geometry for
23        9|              ET NON IN VIA. For a man may wander in the way, by rounding
24        9|               yet nevertheless here I may be mistaken, by reason of
25        9|              now made and cast up) it may appear what increase this
26        9|             light as I purpose) yet I may at the least give some awaking
27       10|                to charge and tax what may be reasonably exacted or
28       11|            means whereunto it is tied may be out of your power or
29       11|               be out of your power or may be accompanied with an overvalue
30       11|             of necessity follow, else may you perform and not obtain.
31       11|              necessity withdraw, else may you have power and not attempt.
32       11|             demonstration be needful, may be signified by four tables;
33       11|          impression, or operation, as may cause a precise and determinate
34       11|               a weak and inferior wit may attain to by interpretation,
35       11|     suggestion or bringing to mind it may draw your consideration
36       11|             thus, make it such as you may see your face in it, this
37       12|           true or no; not because you may always conclude that the
38       12|            true, but contrariwise you may safely conclude that if
39       13|           generations and productions may be found out, but the discovery
40       17|               have been hitherto, and may be yet hereafter much more
41       18|      compendious and ready whereby it may be used and applied. That
42       18|         requireth a method whereby it may be transposed to another
43       18|              collected, to the end it may be discerned both where
44       19|             and erroneous grounds men may meet in consequence or conclusion,
45       25|             sects, (as misdoubting it may shake the foundations,)
46      BCo|           that the first figure of 45 may very well have been meant
47      BCo|             NOTA BENE; the next group may mean DIES MERCURII (Wednesday)
48      BCo|         probable that the writer (who may have been copying a kind
49      BCo|             relating to such subjects may probably be able to interpret