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Notes 8Lines 31-34: 6. Be alwaies jealous of him that knowsyour secrets,And therefore it behooves you credit fewAnd when you grow into the least suspect,With silent cunning must you cut themoff."This last," says Meyer, p. 136, "is not to be foundexactly as stated either in Machiavelli or Gentillet, butmust have been perverted by the dramatists from Principe,23-See Introduction to this edition.Line 40 :See Introduction.That it is twenty days before it works.Page 6Line 12 : Aeneas Pilot by the God of dreams.A reference to Palinurus. For an account of Palinurus*fatal sleep see the closing portion of Bk. V of the JEneid.Page 7Line 2 : We the seven Pillars of the German Empire.Elze calls attention to the fact that the Electors arereferred to as pillars in Bulla Aurea, chap, xii: "SacriImperii Electores . . . qui solidce bases Imperii etcolumnce immobiles, " which citation in the English editionof the Golden Bull (161 9) reads: "Which sound pillers andstedfast and immoveable supporters of the Empire.Line 9: Sewer to the Emperour.This title is wrongly assigned to the King of Bohemia,belonging by rights to the Palatine. Fynes Moryson callsthe King of Bohemia " Archbutler of the Empire " {Itinerary,vol. iv, p. 256).