Of Boldneffe. 62 [518] 13 Of Goodneffe, and Goodneffe of Nature. 66 [199] 14 Of Nobilitie. 72 [189] 15 Of Seditions and Troubles. 76 391 20 Of Counfell. 21 Of Delaies. 105 [295] 115 311 125 524 127 435 135 [183 139 526 142 243 146 [215] 149 [161 164 [51] The Table. 29 Of the true Greatneffe of Kingdomes and Eftates. 30 Of Regiment of Health. 31 Of Sufpicion. 32 Of Difcourfe. 34 33 Of Plantations. Of Riches. 35 Of Prophecies. 36 Of Ambition. 191 528] 37 Of Maskes and Triumphs. 223 539. 38 Of Nature in Men. 227 359 39 Of Custome and Education. 231 [367] 40 Of Fortune. Of Youth and Age. 43 Of Beautie. 48 Of Followers and Frends. 49 Of Sutours. 50 Of Studies. 51 Of Faction. 52 of Ceremonies and Refpects. 53 Of Praife. 54 Of Vain-Glors 55 Of Honour and Reputation. 56 Of Iulicature. 57 Of Anger. 58 Of Viciffitude of Things. 329 [569] Of Fame, a fragment. [579] First published by Dr. Rawley in Resuscitatio. 1657. p. 281. A FRAGMENT OF AN ESSAY, He Poets make Fame a Monster. They defcribe her, in Part, finely, and elegantly; and, in part, grauely, and fententiously. They fay, look how many Feathers fhe hath, fo many Eyes fhe hath vnderneath: So many Tongues; So many Voyces; She pricks up fo many Ears. This is a flourish: There follow excellent Parables; As that, the gathereth ftrength in going; That she goeth upon the ground, and yet hideth her head in the Clouds. That, in the day time, fhe fitteth in a Watch Tower, and flyeth, moft, by night: That the mingleth Things done, with things not done: And that she is a Terrour to great Citties: But that, which paffeth all the reft, is. They do recount, that the Earth, Mother of the Gyants, that made War against Jupiter, and were by him destroyed, thereupon, in an anger, brought forth Fame: For certain it is, That Rebels, figured by the Gyants, and Seditious Fames, and Libels, are but Brothers, and Sifters; Mafculine, and Feminine. But now, if a Man can tame this Monster, and bring her to feed at the hand, and govern her, and with her fly other ravening Fowle, and kill them, it is fomewhat worth. But we are infected, with the ftile of the Poets. To speak now, in a fad, and ferious manner: There is not, in all the Politiques, a Place, leffe handled, and more worthy to be handled, then this of Fame. We will, therefore, fpeak of these points. What are falfe Fames; And what are true Fames; And how they may be best discerned; How Fames, may be sown, and raifed; How they may be spread, and multiplyed; And how they may be checked, and layed dead. And other Things, concerning the Nature of Fame. Fame, is of that force, as there is, scarcely, any great Action wherein, it hath not, a great part; Efpecially, in the War. Mucianus undid Vitellius by a Fame, that he scattered; That Vitellius had in purpose, to remove the Legions of Syria, into Germany; And the Legions of Germany, into Syria: whereupon the Legions of Syria were infinitely inflamed. Fulius Cæfar, took Pompey unprovided, and layed asleep his industry, and preparations, by a Fame that he cunningly gaue out; How Cafars own Souldiers loved him not; And being wearied with the Wars, and Laden with the spoyles of Gaul, would forfake him, as foon as he came into Italy. Livia, fetled all things, for the Succeffion, of her Son Tiberius, by continuall giving out, that her husband Auguftus, was upon Recovery, and amendment. And it is an ufuall thing, with the Baffhawes, to conceale the Death of the Great Turk from the Fannizaries, and men of War, to fave the Sacking of Conftantinople, and other Towns, as their Manner is. Themistocles, made Zerxes, king of Perfia poast apace out of Græcia, by giving out, that the Gracians, had a purpose, to break his Bridge, of Ships, which he had made athwart Hellefpont. There be a thousand such like Examples; And the more they are, the lesse they need to be repeated; Because a Man, meeteth with them, every where: Therefore, let all Wife Governors, have as great a watch, and care, ouer Fames, as they have, of the Actions, and Designes themselves. The reft was not Finished. respecting LORD BACON AND HIS WRITINGS. We fairly despair of giving any adequate representation of either the Author or his Works. Some vital contemporary testimony has been adduced at pp. xi.-xxi.; and the few following notes, which are all our space will admit, may be taken simply as a handful of gleanings out of a vast harvest. 1558. Nov. 17. Elizabeth succeeds to the throne. 1560. JAN. 22. 1576. Nov. 21. 1586. 1588. 1592. Francis Bacon is born at York House. Bacon becomes an 'Ancient' of Gray's Inn. Harl. MS. 1912. 1579. He becomes a Student of his Inn. Harl. MS. 1912. 1582. JUNE 27. He becomes an 'Utter Barrister.' Harl. MS. 1912. He becomes a Bencher of Gray's Inn. Harleian MS. 1912. He is appointed a 'Reader' of his Inn.' Harleian MS. 1912. Mr. Spedding edited, in 1870, for his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, 'A Conference of Pleasure, composed for some festive occasion about the year 1592.' The original title of the partially burnt MS. is Mr. ffr. Bacon of tribute or giuing that which is due. 1. The praise of the worthiest vertue [Fortitude]. 2. The praise of the worthiest affection [Love]. 3. The praise of the worthiest power [Knowledge]. 4. The praise of the worthiest person [Queen Elizabeth]. The first two are quite new. 1596. JUNE 2. 1596. JULY 31. Ост. 7. Remedies against Discontent, &c. is registered at Stationers' Hall: see p. ix. The Earl of Lincoln and suite were away from England on an embassy to the Landgrave of Hesse. An account of the journey was immediately written by one of the suite, Edward Monings, and published in October or November, under the the title of The Landgrave of Hessen, his princelie receiving of her Maiesties Embassador. [There is a copy in the Grenville Collection, No. 2938.] Ост. 26. It is thus entered in the Stationers Register C. fol. 15. 26 OCTOBER. Robert Robinson Entred for his copie in th[e] and of Mr. Hartwell and the Wardens a booke intituled The langraue of Hessen his princelye Receavinge of her maies ambassadors. -vjd This work is connected with the Essays, through the following undoubtable plagiarism from the Essay on 'Studies,' at pp, 6-10; as yet in MS. "His education prince-like, generally knowen in all things, and excellent in many, seasoning his graue and mor[e] important studies for ability in iudgment, with studies of pastime for retiring, as in poetrie, musike, and the Mathematikes, and for ornament in discourse in the languages, French, Italian, and English, wherein he is expert reading much, conferring and writting much he is a full man, a readie man, an exact man, and so excellent a Prince that a man may say of him without flatterie as Tullie did of Pompey vnus in quo summa sunt omnia, and for my priuate opinion I thinke there are but fewe such men in the world." p. 21. It was such 'garnishment' as this, that induced Bacon to publish his Essays, as he states in his dedicatory letter to his brother Anthony, see p. 4. 1597. JAN. 30. 1597. FEB. 5. Date of Bacon's dedication to his brother Anthony, see p. 4. The first Edition of the Essayes is registered at Stationers' Hall. The entry at the top of fol. 18. of Register C. [1595-1620 A.D.] is as follows. |