LIFE OF BACON. V 



June, 1573. (/r) They were both admitted of Trinity Col 

 lege, under the care of Dr. John Whitgift,(c) a friend of 

 the Lord Keeper s, then master of the college, afterwards 

 Archbishop of Canterbury, and distinguished through life, 

 not only for his piety, but for his great learning, and un 

 wearied exertions to promote the public good. 



vain enough in these things; that I saw a kind of juggler, that had a pair 

 of cards, and would tell a man what card he thought. This pretended 

 learned man told me, it was a mistaking in me ; for (said he) it was not 

 the knowledge of the man s thought, (for that is proper to God,) but it was 

 the inforcing of a thought upon him, and binding his imagination by a 

 stronger, that he could think no other card. And thereupon he asked me a 

 question or two, which I thought he did but cunningly, knowing before 

 what used to be the feats of the juggler. Sir, (said he), do you remember 

 whether he told the card the man thought himself, or bade another to tell 

 it. I answered, (as was true), that he bade another tell it. Whereunto 

 he said, so I thought ; for (said he) himself could not have put on so 

 strong an imagination, but by telling the other the card, (who believed that 

 the juggler was some strange man, and could do strange things,) that other 

 man caught a strong imagination. I hearkened unto him, thinking for a 

 vanity he spoke prettily. Then he asked me another question : saith he, do 

 you remember whether he bade the man think the card first, and afterwards 

 told the other man in his ear, what he should think, or else that he did whisper 

 iirst in the man s ear, that should tell the card, telling that such a man 

 should think such a card, and after bade the man think a card ; I told him, 

 as was true; that he did first whisper the man in the ear, that such a man 

 should think such a card ; upon this the learned man did much exult, and 

 please himself, saying, lo, you may see that my opinion is right ; for if 

 the man had thought first, his thought had been fixed ; but the other ima 

 gining first, bound his thought. Which though it did somewhat sink with 

 me, yet I made lighter than I thought, and said, I thought it was confede 

 racy between the juggler and the two servants ; though (indeed) I had no 

 reason so to think ; for they were both my father s servants ; and he had 

 never played in the house before. 



(/c) An. 1573. Jun. 10. Antonius Bacon Coll. Trin. Convict, i. admissus 

 in matriculam acad. Cantabr. 



Franciscus Bacon Coll. Trin. Convict, i. admissus in matriculam aca- 

 demiae Cantabr. eodem die & anno. (Reg r Acad.) 



(c) See the Biog. Brit. In 1565, Whitgift so distinguished himself in 

 the pulpit, that the Lord Keeper recommended him to the queen. 



