Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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            that elegant Pile, or Structure, commonly known by the Name
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            of the Lord Bacons Lodgings; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s145" xml:space="preserve">which he Inhabited by Turns,
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            the moſt part of his Life, (ſome few years onely excepted,)
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            unto bis Dying Day. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s146" xml:space="preserve">In which Houſe he carried himſelf,
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            with ſuch Sweetneſs, Comity, and Generoſity; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s147" xml:space="preserve">That he was
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            much revered, and beloved, by the Readers and Gentlemen
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            of the Houſe.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s149" xml:space="preserve">Not withſtanding, that he profeſſed the Law for his Lively-
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            hood, and Subſiſtence; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s150" xml:space="preserve">yet his Heart and Affection was more
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            carried after the Affairs and Places of Eſtate; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s151" xml:space="preserve">for which, if
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            the Majeſty Royal then, had been pleaſed, he was most fit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s152" xml:space="preserve">In
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            his younger years, he ſtudied the Service, and Fortunes, (as
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            they call them,) of that Noble, but unſortunate Earl, the
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            Earl of Eſſex; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s153" xml:space="preserve">unto whom be was, in a ſort, a Private and free
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            Counſeller, and gave him Safe and Honour able Advice, till,
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            in the end, the Earl inclined too much, to the violent and preci-
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            tate Counſell of others, his Adherents, and Followers, which
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            was his Fate and Ruine.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s155" xml:space="preserve">His Birth and other Capacities qualified him, above o-
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            thers of his Profeſſion, to have ordinary acceſſes at Court;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s156" xml:space="preserve">and to come freqnently into the Queens Eye; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s157" xml:space="preserve">who would of-
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            ten grace him with private and free
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            Communication; </s>
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            Not onely about Matters of his Profeſſion, or Buſineſs in
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            Law; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s159" xml:space="preserve">But alſo, about the arduous Affairs of Eſtate; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s160" xml:space="preserve">From
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            whomſhe received, from time to time, great Satisfaction. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s161" xml:space="preserve">Ne-
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            vertheleſs though ſhe cheered him much, with the Bounty of
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            her Countenance; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s162" xml:space="preserve">yet ſhe never cheered him with the
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            Bounty of her Hand: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s163" xml:space="preserve">Having never conferred upon him, a-
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            ny Ordinary Place or Means of Honour or Profit, Save
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            onely one dry Reverſion of the Regiſters Office, in the Star-
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            Chamber; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s164" xml:space="preserve">worth about 1600 @ per Annum; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s165" xml:space="preserve">For which he
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            waited in Expectation, either fully or near twenty years; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s166" xml:space="preserve">Of
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            which his Lordſhip would ſay, in Queen Elizabeths Time; </s>
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            That it was like another mans Ground, buttalling upon
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            his Houſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s168" xml:space="preserve">which might mend his Proſpect, but it did
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            not fill his Barn. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s169" xml:space="preserve">(Nevertheleſs in the time of King James,
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            it fellunto him, which might be imputed; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s170" xml:space="preserve">not ſo much to
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            her Majeſties averſeneſs and Diſaffection, towards him;</s>
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