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been without an answer : Mr. Smith, my most kind friend, 

 and to whose care, in my matters, I owe all regard and 

 affection, yet without diminution of that part (and that no 

 small one neither) in which Dr. Rawley hath place : so 

 that the souls of us three so throughly agreeing, may be 

 aptly said to have united in a triga. 



Though I thought that I had already sufficiently shewed 

 what veneration I had for the illustrious Lord Verulam, 

 yet I shall take such care for the future, that it may not 

 possibly be denied, that I endeavoured most zealously to 

 make this thing known to the learned world. 



But neither shall this design, of setting forth in one 

 volume all the Lord Bacon s works, proceed without con 

 sulting you, and without inviting you to cast in your 

 symbol, worthy such an excellent edition : that so the 

 appetite of the reader, provoked already by his published 

 works, may be further gratified by the pure novelty of so 

 considerable an appendage. 



For the French interpreter, who patched together his 

 things I know not whence ^, and tacked that motley piece 

 to him ; they shall not have place in this great collection. 

 But yet I hope to obtain your leave to publish apart, as 

 an appendix to the Natural History, that exotic work, 

 gathered together from this and the other place [of his 

 lordship s writings] and by me translated into Latin. For 

 seeing the genuine pieces of the Lord Bacon are already 

 extant, and in many hands, it is necessary that the foreign 

 reader be given to understand of what threads the texture 

 of that book consists, and how much of truth there is in 

 that which that shameless person does, in his preface to 

 the reader, so stupidly write of you. 



My brother, of blessed memory, turned his words into 



* Certain spurious papers added to his translation of the Advancement of 

 Learning. 



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