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David into English verse, (a) which he dedicated to a Psalms, 

 divine and poet, his friend, the learned and religious 

 George Herbert. (&) This was the last exercise, in the 



tales, there are some put in which are beastly and immoral : such as were 

 fitter to have been joined to Aretine, or Aloysia, than to have polluted the 

 chaste labours of the Baron of Verulam.&quot; 



3rd. In 1661 an edition of the Apothegms was published in the 2nd 

 edition of the Resuscitatio. It consists only of 249 Apothegms, the edition 

 published by Lord Bacon in 1625 consisting of 280. As this edition of 

 the Rescuscitation was published during the life of Dr. Rawley, and as 

 Lord Bacon says in his preface, &quot; I have collated some few of them, therein 

 fanning the old,&quot; it seems that Dr. Rawley may have seen the MSS. and 

 that these additions are genuine. It will be observed that they are fewer 

 in number; and, although some are the same, there are many which are 

 not contained in the first edition. See Stephens s preface to the Memoirs, 

 published in 1734. 



4th. In the 3rd edition of the Resuscitatio, published in 1671, there is 

 another edition of the Apothegms, being 308 in number. Dr. Rawley 

 died in 1667. 



The 5th edition is a 12mo. It contains, as in the 4th edition, 308 

 Apothegms. 



In this edition of the works of Bacon I separated the Apothegms which 

 were in the edition of 1625, being 280 in number, from the additional 

 Apothegms in the Resuscitatio, such additional Apothegms being 28 in 

 number. 



(a) Published in 8vo. 1628, and in the Resuscitation, and in vol. vii. of 

 this edition, p. 98. 



(1} TO HIS VERY GOOD FRIEND, 



MR. GEORGE HERBERT. 



The pains that it pleased you to take about some of 

 my writings I cannot forget, which did put me in mind to 

 dedicate to you this poor exercise of my sickness. Besides, 

 it being my manner for dedications, to choose those that 

 I hold most fit for the argument, I thought, that in respect 

 of divinity and poesy met, whereof the one is the matter, 

 the other the style of this little writing, I could not 

 make better choice : so, with signification of my love and 

 acknowledgment, I ever rest your affectionate friend, 



FR. ST. ALBAN. 



