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

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          <pb o="11" file="0031" n="31" rhead="FRANCIS Lord BACON."/>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s363" xml:space="preserve">This is moſt true; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s364" xml:space="preserve">He was free from Malice; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s365" xml:space="preserve">which, (as he
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            ſaid Himſelf,) He never bred nor fed. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s366" xml:space="preserve">He was no Reven-
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            ger of Injuries; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s367" xml:space="preserve">which, if he had minded, he had both Oppor-
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            tunity and Place High enough, to have done it. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s368" xml:space="preserve">He was
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            no Heaver of Men out of their Places, As delighting in their
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            Ruine and Undoing. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s369" xml:space="preserve">He was no d
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            efamer of any Man to
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            his Prince. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s370" xml:space="preserve">One Day, when a great States-Man was new-
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            ly Dead, That had not been his Friend; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s371" xml:space="preserve">The King asked
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            him,
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            What he thought of that Lord, which was gone? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s372" xml:space="preserve">He an-
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            ſwered, That he would never have made his Majeſties
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            Eſtate better; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s373" xml:space="preserve">But he was ſure he would have kept it
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            ſrom being worſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s374" xml:space="preserve">Which was the worſt, be would ſay of
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            him. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s375" xml:space="preserve">Which Ireckon, not among his Moral, but his Chriſtian
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            Vertues.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s376" xml:space="preserve"/>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s377" xml:space="preserve">His Fame is greater, and ſounds louder in Forraign Parts
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            abroad, than at home in his own Nation. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s378" xml:space="preserve">There by verify-
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            ing that Divine Sentence, A Prophet is not without ho-
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            nour, ſave in his own Country, and in his own houſe.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s379" xml:space="preserve">Concerning which I will give you a Taſte onely, out of a Let-
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            ter, written from Italy (The Store-houſe of Refined Wits)
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            to the late Earl of Devonſhire, Then, the Lord Candiſh. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s380" xml:space="preserve">
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            I will expect the New Eſſayes of my Lord Chancellor
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            Bacon, as alſo his Hiſtory, with a great deal of De-
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            ſire, and whatſoever elſe he ſhall compoſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s381" xml:space="preserve">But in
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            Particular of his Hiſtory, I promiſe my ſelf a thing per-
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            ſect and Singular; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s382" xml:space="preserve">eſpecially in Henry the Seventh; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s383" xml:space="preserve">Where
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            he may exerciſe the Talent of his Divine Underſtand-
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            ing. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s384" xml:space="preserve">This Lord is more and more known, and his
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            Books here, more and more delighted in; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s385" xml:space="preserve">And thoſe
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            Men that have more than ordinary Knowledge in
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            Humane affairs, eſteem him one of the moſt capable
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            Spirits of this Age; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s386" xml:space="preserve">and he is truely ſuch. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s387" xml:space="preserve">Now his Fame
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            doth not decrease
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            with Dayes ſince, but rather increaſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s388" xml:space="preserve">Di-
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            vers of his Works have been anciently, and yet lately, tran-
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            ſlated into other Tongues, both Learned and Modern,
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            by Forraign Pens. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s389" xml:space="preserve">Several Perſons of Quality, during his
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            Lordſhips Life, croſſed the Seas on purpoſe to gain an Oppor-
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            tunity of ſeeing him, and Diſcourſing with him: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s390" xml:space="preserve">where of </s>
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