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effect : Alas, poore, seely, weake, base, miserable man ; and then intreated 

 my L. Cecill to read it, whoe tooke it, and delivered it to the clarke, wherby it 

 appeared that the L. Cobham had, upon all the oathes that male binde a 

 Christian, an honest, or honorable man, cleered Sir Walter of all the treasons.&quot; 

 &quot; Winchester, hast, 19 of November, 1603. 



A postscript, &quot; Sir Walter is attainted of treason,&quot; shews the letter to have 

 been written under the impression of the moment and from the spot. 



With respect to Coke s abuse, it is curious, as matter of critical observation, to 

 note how his own expressions, &quot; English face&quot; and &quot; Spanish heart,&quot; suggest 

 to himself through the association of face cards, and hearts, the offensive word 

 &quot; deal.&quot; As matter of moral observation, it is interesting to remark how 

 quietly and effectively Raleigh gives his irritated accuser to understand that 

 he is aware of the intended insult and retains his self-possession, by retorting 

 upon cards a sarcasm derived from bowls: &quot; It will go near to prove a measuring 

 cast between you and me, Mr. Attorney.&quot; 



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When Coke indulged himself in these satirical lines he alluded to Sebastian 

 Brant s &quot; Stultifera navis,&quot; translated by Alexander Barclay, and then called, 

 &quot; The Ship of Fooles.&quot; This work opens with a most inviting satire, having for 

 its title De Inutilibus Libris. &quot; Here beginneth the Ship of Fooles, and first 

 &quot; Of Unprofitable Bookes ;&quot; to the company of which Coke, in his ungrateful 

 spleen, consigned the Novum Organum. In addition to the obvious sarcasm 

 conveyed in the happy title to which he alludes, he doubtless indulged himself 

 in the recollection of some lines which followed, and which he associated with 

 Lord Bacon s new dignity. 



&quot; Eche is not lettered that now is made a lorde, 



Nor eche a clerke that hath a benefice ; 



They are not all lawyers that pleas do recorde, 



All that are promoted are not fully wise.&quot; 



The spirit of his &quot; Auctori Consilium&quot; he evidently caught from the lines 

 which conclude the satire in the original : 



&quot; O vos doctores qui grandia nomina fertis 

 Respicite antiques patres, jurisque peritos : 

 Non in candidulis pensebant dogmata libris,&quot; &c. 



May we be forgiven for the surmise that this reference to Brant s book was 

 accompanied by some secret mental application of a coarse jest supplied by 

 the next page? To the chapter &quot; De Inutilibus Libris&quot; succeeds &quot; De Malis 

 Consultoribus.&quot; &quot; Of Evill Counsellors, Judges, and Men of Law,&quot; where the 

 cut prefixed is an attempt to scald a live pig in a caldron. Now here, and in per 

 fect keeping with the refined spirit which dictated many of the Chief Justice s 

 classical displays of rhetoric, was Bacon on the brink of the hot water which the 

 Coke had prepared. The uncharitable suspicion gathers strength from the fact 

 that the whole satire &quot; Of Evill Counsellors&quot; is directed by the translator to 

 the Chancery Bar, in his L Envoy, which opens thus, with some strength and 

 much naivete. 



&quot; Therefore ye yonge studentes of the Chauncery 

 (I speake not to the aide, the cure of them is past :) 

 Remember that justice long hath in bondage be, 

 Reduce her nowe unto libertie at the last, 

 Endeavour you her bondes to louse or to brast.&quot; 



That the personages engaged in forcing the hog into the pot were adorned with 

 caps and bells, was an incident most naturally overlooked by the self-compla 

 cency of the Chief Justice. 



