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when she was living) bhe had a translucent passage in the night, through the 

 city of London, by multitudes of torches ; the tapers placed by the tomb and 

 the altar, in the cathedral, smoking with them like an offertory, with all the 

 ceremonies, and voices, iheir quires and copes could express, attended by many 

 prelates and nobles, who paid this last tribute to her memory.&quot; 



In 1623 Lord Bacon published the treatise &quot; De Augmentis.&quot; In this 

 treatise the praise of Elizabeth, in the Advancement of Learning, is wholly 

 omitted, and certainly not for its want of beauty ; he also omits the passage, 

 &quot; Then the reign of a queen matched with a foreigner : then of a queen that 

 lived solitary and unmarried, and yet her government so masculine that it had 

 greater impression and operation upon the states abroad than it any ways 

 received from thence;&quot; merely saying, &quot; Rursus regnum faeminae solitaries et 

 ccelibis.&quot; Whatever were the motives by which he was induced to suppress, 

 for a time, the just praise of Elizabeth, he ordered the publication in a will, 

 which he afterwards cancelled, but, in all probability, after some understanding 

 with Dr. Rawley, that the publication should appear, as it did, soon after his 

 death. This appears from Rawley s account, and from Archbishop Tennison s 

 Baconiana. 



Archbishop Tennison published, in the Baconiana, this extract from his will, 

 saying, &quot; It is a transcript out of his lordship s will concerning his writings. 

 There in particular manner, he commendeth to the press The Felicities of 

 Queen Elizabeth.&quot; The words in the will are, &quot; In particular I wish the elegie 

 which I writ in felicem memoriam Elizabethan may be published.&quot; 



The will to which the Archbishop and Dr. Rawley refer was a former will, 

 and was altered. This appears by comparing the transcript by Archbishop 

 Tennison with the published copy of his last : and that there may not be any 

 mistake, I compared the printed copy of Lord Bacon s will, with the copy in 

 Doctor s Commons, and found it correct, except with a few immaterial literal 

 variations. 



The published, that is, the correct copy of Lord Bacon s will, does not con 

 tain this direction respecting the eulogy on Elizabeth. 



In the year 1651 a tract was published from which it appears that the essay 

 &quot; In felicem memoriam Elizabethan&quot; had not been confined to the drawer of 

 Dr. Rawley; it is entitled, In happy Memorie of Elizabeth, Queen of England, 

 or a Collection of the Felicities of Queen Elizabeth. 



Of this tract Archbishop Tennison says, &quot; The third is a memorial, intituled 

 The Felicities of Queen Elizabeth. This was written by his lordship in Latin 

 only. A person of more good will than ability, translated it into English, and 

 called it in the singular, Her Felicity. But we have also a version, much 

 more accurate and judicious, performed by Doctor Rawley, who was pleased to 

 take that labour upon him, because he understood the value his lordship put 

 upon this work; for it was such, that I find this charge given concerning it, in 

 his last will and testament. In particular I wish the elogie which I writ, in 

 Felicem Memoriam Elizabeths, may be published. &quot; This version was pub 

 lished in 1657, many years after the death of James, in the first edition of the 

 Resuscitatio, where in his address to the reader, he says, &quot; I thought it fitting 

 to intimate, that the discourse within contained, entituled A Collection of the 

 Felicities of Queen Elizabeth, was written by his lordship in Latin only ; 

 whereof, though his lordship had his particular ends then, yet in regard that I 

 held it a duty, that her own nation, over which she so happily reigned for many 

 years, should be acquainted and possessed with the virtues of that excellent 

 queen, as well as foreign nations, I was induced, many years ago, to put the 

 same into the English tongue ; not ad verbum, for that had been but flat and 

 injudicious; but (as far as my slender ability could reach) according to the 

 expressions, which I conceived his lordship would have rendered it in, if he 

 had written the same in English ; yet ever acknowledging that Zeuxis or 

 Apelles pencil, could not be attained but by Zeuxis or Apelles himself. This 

 work, in the Latin, his lordship so much affected, that he had ordained, by his 

 last will and testament, to have had it published many years since ; but that 

 singular person entrusted therewith soon after deceased ; and therefore it must 



