6. Philip of Macedon’s dream is in Plutarch, Alexander, II.2–4.

7. You shall see me again at Philippi (Plutarch, Brutus, XXXVI.4).

8. You too, Galba, shall have your taste of empire (Tacitus, Annals, VI.20).

9. Tacitus, Histories, V.13.

10. Suetonius, Domitian, XXIII (concluding words).

11. Bacon tells the story in more detail in his History of Henry VII (Works, VI.245). The episode is recounted in Hall and Holinshed, whence it passed to Shakespeare,3 Henry VI, IV.6.68–70.

12. Henry II of France was accidentally killed at a tournament in 1559.

13. Common.

14. Initial.