THE PRAISE OF 



HENRY, PRINCE OF WALES, 

 BY FRANCIS BACON. 



WRITTEN IN LATIN BV HIS LORDSHIP, AND TRANSLATED BY 

 DR. BIRCH- * 



HENRY Prince of Wales, eldest son of the king 

 of Great Britain, happy in the hopes conceived 

 of him, and now happy in his memory, died on the 

 6th of Nov. 1612, to the extreme concern and 

 regret of the whole kingdom, being a youth, who 

 had neither offended nor satiated the minds of 

 men. He had by the excellence of his disposition 

 excited high expectations among great numbers of 

 all ranks; nor had through the shortness of his 

 life disappointed them. One capital circumstance 

 added to these was the esteem, in which he was 

 commonly held, of being firm to the cause of 

 religion: and men of the best judgment were 

 fully persuaded, that his life was a great support 

 and security to his father from the danger of con- 



* He says, &quot; the following translation is an attempt, for the 

 sake of the English reader, to give the sense of the original, 

 without pretending to reach the force and conciseness of ex 

 pression peculiar to the great writer as well as to the Roman 

 language.&quot; 



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