NOTE 3 



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

 his Essays. 



Monsieur 1 Ambassadeur mon File, Voyant que vostre excellence faict et 

 traite manages, non seulement entre les princes d Angleterre et de France, 

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

 ment des Sciences en Francois) i ai bien voulu vous envoyer mon liure der- 

 nierement imprime que i avois pourveu pour vous, mais i estois en doubte, de 

 le vous envoyer, pour ce qu il estoit escrit en Anglois. Mais a cest heure 

 pour la raison susdicte ie le vous envoye. C est un recompilement de mes 

 Essays Morales et Civiles ; mais tellement enlargies et enrichies, tant de 

 nombre que de poix, que c est de fait un oeuvre nouveau. Ie vous baise les 

 mains, et reste, vostre tres affectionee ami, ex tres humble serviteur. 



The same in English, by the Publisher. 



My Lord Ambassador, my Son, Seeing that your excellency makes and 

 treats of marriages, not only betwixt the princes of France and England, but 

 also betwixt their languages (for you have caused my book of the Advancement 

 of Learning to be translated into French), I was much inclined to make you a 

 present of the last book which I published, and which I had in readiness for 

 you. I was sometimes in doubt whether I ought to have sent it to you, because 

 it was written in the English tongue. But now, for that very reason, I send it 

 to you. It is a recompilement of my Essays, Moral and Civil ; but in such 

 manner enlarged and enriched both in number and weight, that it is in effect a 

 new work. I kiss your hands, and remain your most affectionate friend and 

 most humble servant, &.c. 



The titles of the Essays in this edition are as follows : 



1. Truth. 



2. Death. 



3. Unity in Religion. 



4. Revenge. 



5. Adversity. 



6. Simulation and Dissimulation. 



7. Parents and Children. 



8. Marriage and Single Life. 



9. Envy. 



10. Love. 



11. Great Place. 



12. Boldness. 



13. Goodness, and Goodness of 



Nature. 



14. Nobility. 



15. Seditions and Troubles. 



16. Atheism. 



17. Superstition. 



18. Travel. 



19. Empire. 



20. Counsel. 



21. Delays. 



22. Cunning. 



23. Wisdom for a Man s self. 



24. Innovations. 



25. Dispatch. 



26. Seeming wise. 



27. Friendship. 



28. Expense. 



29. The true Greatness of King 



doms and Estates. 



30. Regiment of Health. 



31. Suspicion. 



32. Discourse. 



33. Plantations. 



34. Riches. 



35. Prophecies. 



36. Ambition. 



37. Masks and Triumphs. 



38. Nature in Men. 



39. Custom and Education. 



40. Fortune. 



41. Usury. 



42. Youth and Age. 



43. Beauty. 



44. Deformity. 



45. Building. 



46. Gardens. 



47. Negociating. 



48. Followers and Friends. 



49. Suitors. 



50. Studies. 



51. Faction. 



52. Ceremonies and Respects 



53. Praise. 



54. Vain Glory. 



55. Honour and Reputation. 



56. Judicature. 



57. Anger. 



58. Vicissitudes of Things. 



