CCCCX11 LIFE OF BACON. 



to leave small reversions of a body after so many years. 

 But now such the spleen of the council of Constance, as 

 they not only cursed his memory as dying an obstinate 

 heretic, but ordered that his bones (with this charitable 

 caution, if it may be discerned from the bodies of other 

 faithful people) be taken out of the ground, and thrown 

 far off from any Christian burial. In obedience here 

 unto, Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln, Diocesan of 

 Luttervvorth, sent his officers, vultures with a quick sight 

 scent at a dead carcass, to ungrave him. Accordingly to 

 Lutterworth they come ; Summer, Commissary, Official, 

 Chancellor, Proctors, Doctors, and their servants, so that 

 the remnant of the body would not hold out a bone amongst 

 so many hands, take what was left out of the grave, and 

 burnt them to ashes, and cast them into Swift, a neigh 

 bouring brook running hard by. Thus this brook hath 

 conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn 

 into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean ; and thus 

 the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, 

 which now is dispersed all the world over.&quot; 



If Bacon had completed his intended work upon 

 &quot; Sympathy and Antipathy,&quot; the constant antipathy of 

 ignorance to intellect, originating sometimes in the painful 

 feeling of inferiority, (a) sometimes in the fear of worldly 

 injury, but always in the influence of some passion more 



() The Athenian peasant voted for the banishment of Aristides, because 

 he was called &quot; The Just.&quot; 



&quot; Let me have men about me that are fat, 

 Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep a-nights : 

 Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; 

 He thinks too much : such men are dangerous.&quot; 



&quot; Tis a rich man s pride there having ever been 

 More than a feud, a strange antipathy 

 Between us and true gentry.&quot; Massinger. 



