3111FRANCIS Lord BACON.
This is moſt true;
He was free from Malice;
which, (as he
ſaid Himſelf,) He never bred nor fed. He was no Reven-
ger of Injuries; which, if he had minded, he had both Oppor-
tunity and Place High enough, to have done it. He was
no Heaver of Men out of their Places, As delighting in their
Ruine and Undoing. He was no defamer of any Man to
his Prince. One Day, when a great States-Man was new-
ly Dead, That had not been his Friend; The King asked him,
What he thought of that Lord, which was gone? He an-
ſwered, That he would never have made his Majeſties
Eſtate better; But he was ſure he would have kept it
ſrom being worſe. Which was the worſt, be would ſay of
him. Which Ireckon, not among his Moral, but his Chriſtian
Vertues.
ſaid Himſelf,) He never bred nor fed. He was no Reven-
ger of Injuries; which, if he had minded, he had both Oppor-
tunity and Place High enough, to have done it. He was
no Heaver of Men out of their Places, As delighting in their
Ruine and Undoing. He was no defamer of any Man to
his Prince. One Day, when a great States-Man was new-
ly Dead, That had not been his Friend; The King asked him,
What he thought of that Lord, which was gone? He an-
ſwered, That he would never have made his Majeſties
Eſtate better; But he was ſure he would have kept it
ſrom being worſe. Which was the worſt, be would ſay of
him. Which Ireckon, not among his Moral, but his Chriſtian
Vertues.
His Fame is greater, and ſounds louder in Forraign Parts
abroad, than at home in his own Nation. There by verify-
ing that Divine Sentence, A Prophet is not without ho-
nour, ſave in his own Country, and in his own houſe.
Concerning which I will give you a Taſte onely, out of a Let-
ter, written from Italy (The Store-houſe of Refined Wits)
to the late Earl of Devonſhire, Then, the Lord Candiſh.
I will expect the New Eſſayes of my Lord Chancellor
Bacon, as alſo his Hiſtory, with a great deal of De-
ſire, and whatſoever elſe he ſhall compoſe. But in
Particular of his Hiſtory, I promiſe my ſelf a thing per-
ſect and Singular; eſpecially in Henry the Seventh; Where
he may exerciſe the Talent of his Divine Underſtand-
ing. This Lord is more and more known, and his
Books here, more and more delighted in; And thoſe
Men that have more than ordinary Knowledge in
Humane affairs, eſteem him one of the moſt capable
Spirits of this Age; and he is truely ſuch. Now his Fame
doth not decrease with Dayes ſince, but rather increaſe. Di-
vers of his Works have been anciently, and yet lately, tran-
ſlated into other Tongues, both Learned and Modern,
by Forraign Pens. Several Perſons of Quality, during his
Lordſhips Life, croſſed the Seas on purpoſe to gain an Oppor-
tunity of ſeeing him, and Diſcourſing with him: where of
abroad, than at home in his own Nation. There by verify-
ing that Divine Sentence, A Prophet is not without ho-
nour, ſave in his own Country, and in his own houſe.
Concerning which I will give you a Taſte onely, out of a Let-
ter, written from Italy (The Store-houſe of Refined Wits)
to the late Earl of Devonſhire, Then, the Lord Candiſh.
I will expect the New Eſſayes of my Lord Chancellor
Bacon, as alſo his Hiſtory, with a great deal of De-
ſire, and whatſoever elſe he ſhall compoſe. But in
Particular of his Hiſtory, I promiſe my ſelf a thing per-
ſect and Singular; eſpecially in Henry the Seventh; Where
he may exerciſe the Talent of his Divine Underſtand-
ing. This Lord is more and more known, and his
Books here, more and more delighted in; And thoſe
Men that have more than ordinary Knowledge in
Humane affairs, eſteem him one of the moſt capable
Spirits of this Age; and he is truely ſuch. Now his Fame
doth not decrease with Dayes ſince, but rather increaſe. Di-
vers of his Works have been anciently, and yet lately, tran-
ſlated into other Tongues, both Learned and Modern,
by Forraign Pens. Several Perſons of Quality, during his
Lordſhips Life, croſſed the Seas on purpoſe to gain an Oppor-
tunity of ſeeing him, and Diſcourſing with him: where of