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1. ’80: another man by me and of reducing characteristics of others to my own. I easily believe of others many things which my own powers cannot attain. My own weakness…

2. Montaigne was buried with the religious order of the Feuillants of Bordeaux, to whom his widow entrusted his working copy of the Essays with its [C] additions and changes and which is the basis of the Edition municipale.

3. Cicero, Tusc. disput., II, i, 3 (adapted).

4. ’80: corruption and licentiousness. Even…

5. ’80: so leaden that it lacks the very taste of virtue: virtue…

6. Horace, Epistles, I, vi, 31–2.

7. Cicero, Tusc. disput., V, ii, 6 (adapted).

8. Not Potidaea but Plataeae, a city of Boeotia, famous for the Greek victory over the Persians (Herodotus, IX, lxx).

9. Plutarch (tr. Amyot), De la malignité d’Herodote, 649H–650A.

10. The famous image of poetry’s magnetic power in Plato’s Io, widely known from Ronsard’s ode, A Michel de L’Hospital.

11. This order is not kept. The first poet is Martial, VI, xxxii.

12. Manilius, IV, 87.

13. Lucan, Pharsalia, I, 128.

14. Horace, Odes, II, i, 23.

15. Virgil, Aeneid, VIII, 670.