Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries

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            Fruits and Productions, of his laſt five years. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s247" xml:space="preserve">His Lord-
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            ſhip alſo deſigned upon the Motion and Invitation of his late
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            Majeſty; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s248" xml:space="preserve">To have written the Reign of King Henry the
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            Eighth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s249" xml:space="preserve">But that Work Perifhed in the Deſignation meer-
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            ly; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s250" xml:space="preserve">God not lending him Life, to proceed further upon it, then
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            only in one Mornings Work: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s251" xml:space="preserve">whereof there is Extant, An,
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            Ex Ungue Leonem, already Printed, in his Lordſhips Miſ-
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            cellany Works.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s253" xml:space="preserve">There is a Commemoration due; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s254" xml:space="preserve">As well, to his Abilities,
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            and Vertues, as to the Courſe of his Life. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s255" xml:space="preserve">Thoſe Abilities,
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            which commonly go ſingle in other Men, though of prime, and
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            Obſerveable Parts, were all conjoyned, and met in Him.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s256" xml:space="preserve">Thoſe are, Sharpneſs of Wit, Memory, Judgment, and
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            Elocution. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s257" xml:space="preserve">For the Former Three, his Books do abun-
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            dantly ſpeak them; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s258" xml:space="preserve">which, with what Sufficiency he wrote, let
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            the World judge; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s259" xml:space="preserve">But with what Celerity he wrote them,
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            I can beſt teſtifie. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s260" xml:space="preserve">But for the Fourth, his Elocution; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s261" xml:space="preserve">I will
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            onlyſet down, what I heard, Sir Walter Rawleigh, once ſpeak of
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            him, by way of Compariſon; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s262" xml:space="preserve">(whoſe Judgment may well be
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            truſted;) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s263" xml:space="preserve">That the Earl of Saliſbury, was an excellent
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            Speaker, but no good Pen-man; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s264" xml:space="preserve">That the Earl of North-
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            ampton, (the Lord Henry Howard,) was an excellent
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            Pen-man, but no good speaker; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s265" xml:space="preserve">But that Sir Francis
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            Bacon, was Eminentin both.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s267" xml:space="preserve">I have been enduced to think; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s268" xml:space="preserve">That if there were, a
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            Beam of Knowledge derived from God upon any
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            Man, in theſe Modern Times, it was upon Him. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s269" xml:space="preserve">For
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            though he was a great Reader of Books; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s270" xml:space="preserve">yet he had
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            not his Knowledge from Books; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s271" xml:space="preserve">But from ſome Grounds,
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            and Notions from within Himſelf. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s272" xml:space="preserve">Which notwith-
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            ſtanding, he vented with great Caution and Circum-
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            ſpection. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s273" xml:space="preserve">His Book, of Inſtauration Magna, (which,
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            in his own Account, was the chiefeſt of his Works,) was no
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            Slight Imagination, ar Fancy, of his brain; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s274" xml:space="preserve">but a setled,
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            and Concocted Notion; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s275" xml:space="preserve">The Production of many years,
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            Labour, and Travel. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s276" xml:space="preserve">I my Self, have ſeen, at the lest,
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            Twelve Coppies, of the Inſtauration; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s277" xml:space="preserve">Reviſed, year by
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            year, one after another; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s278" xml:space="preserve">And every year altered, and </s>
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