CCCCX LIFE OF BACON. 



College, Cambridge, the University of Cambridge, and the 



we see that voluptuous men turn friars, and ambitious men turn melan 

 choly ; but of knowledge there is no satiety, but satisfaction and appetite 

 are perpetually interchangeable, and therefore appeareth to be good in itself 

 simply, without fallacy or accident.&quot; 



Wats s Translation. &quot; In all other pleasures there is a finite variety, and 

 after they grow a little stale, their flower and verdure fades and departs ; 

 whereby we are instructed that they were not indeed pure and sincere 

 pleasures, but shadows and deceits of pleasures, and that it was the novelty 

 which pleased, and not the quality; wherefore voluptuous men often turn 

 friars, and the declining age of ambitious princes is commonly more sad 

 and besieged with melancholy ; but of knowledge there is no satiety, but 

 vicissitude, perpetually and interchangeably returning of fruition and appe 

 tite ; so that the good of this delight must needs be simpler, without 

 accident or fallacy.&quot; 



In the year 1632 a translation into French was published in Paris. The 

 following is a copy of the title page : &quot; Neve Livres de la Dignite et de 

 1 Accroissement des Sciences, composez par Francois Bacon, Baron de 

 Verulam et Vicomte de Saint Aubain, et traduits de Latin en Francois par 

 le Sieur de Golefer, Conseiller et Historiographe du Roy. A Paris, chez 

 Jaques Dugast, rue Sainct Jean de Beauvais, a 1 Olivier de Robert Estienne 

 et en sa boutique au bas de la rue de la Harpe. M.DC.XXXII. avec privilege 

 du Roy.&quot; Of this edition Archbishop Tenison says, &quot; This work hath 

 been also translated into French, upon the motion of the Marquis Fiat; 

 but in it there are many things wholly omitted, many things perfectly mis 

 taken, and some things, especially such as relate to religion, wilfully 

 perverted. Insomuch that, in one place, he makes his lordship to magnify 

 the Legend : a book sure of little credit with him, when he thus began one 

 of his essays, 1 1 had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the 

 Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. &quot; 

 I have a copy of this edition. 



A Letter of the Lord Bacon s, in French, to the Marquess Fiat, relating 

 to his Essays. 



Monsieur 1 Ambassadeur mon File, Voyant que vostre excellence faict 

 et trait manages, non seulement entre les princes d Angletere et de France, 

 mais aussi entre les langues (puis que faictes traduire non liure de 1 Ad- 

 vancement des Sciences en Francois) i ai bien voulu vous envoyer, &c. 



There is a translation into French in the edition of Lord Bacon s works, 

 published in the eighth year of the French Republic. The following is the 

 title page of this edition : &quot; QEuvres de Francois Bacon, Chancelier d An- 

 gletaire; traduites par Ant. La Salle; avec des notes critiques, historiques 



