21. In the sweat of another man’s brow (see Genesis 3.19).

22. Because money-lenders and brokers, for their own ends, deliberately overvalue men who are financially unsound, so representing them as good risks.

23. Bacon says that there are four Arts to Logic: Invention, Judgement, Custody (or Memory) and Elocution (or Tradition) (Works, IV.407). Other Renaissance definitions confined the Arts to Invention and Judgement.

24. Speculations, risky enterprises.

25. Buying up commodities to control (or corner) the market.

26. Though service is one of the most honourable ways of obtaining wealth.

27. Catering to a superior’s whims.

28. He seized wills and wardships as with a net (Annals, XIII.42). It is not Tacitus, but Seneca’s enemy, Suillus, who brings this accusation.