10 DR RAWLEY'S LIFE OF BACON 



Dialogue touching an Holy War; the Fable of the New Atlantis; 

 a Preface to a Digest of the Law <s of England ; the beginning 

 of the History of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth; De Aug- 

 mentis Scientiarum, or the Advancement of Learning, put into 

 Latin *, with several enrichments and enlargements ; Counsels 

 Civil and Moral, or his book of Essays, likewise enriched and 

 enlarged ; the Conversion of certain Psalms into English Verse ; 

 the Translation into Latin of the History of King Henry the 

 Seventh, of the Counsels Civil and Moral 2 , of the Dialogue of the 

 Holy War, of the Fable of the Neiv Atlantis, for the benefit of 

 other nations 3 ; his revising of his book De Sapientid Vete- 

 rum ; Inquisitio de Magnete ; Topica Inquisitionis de Luce et 

 Lumine ; both these not yet printed 4 ; lastly, Sylva Sylva- 

 rum, or the Natural History. These were the fruits and pro- 

 ductions of his last five years. His lordship also designed, upon 

 the motion and invitation of his late majesty, to have written 

 the reign of King Henry the Eighth ; but that work perished 

 in the designation merely, God not lending him life to proceed 

 farther upon it than only in one morning's work ; whereof there 

 is extant an ex ungue leonem, already printed in his lordship's 

 Miscellany Works. 



There is a commemoration due as well to his abilities and 

 virtues as to the course of his life. Those abilities which com- 

 monly go single in other men, though of prime and observable 

 parts, were all conjoined and met in him. Those are, sharpness 

 of wit, memory, judgment, and elocution. For the former three 

 his books do abundantly speak them ; which 5 with what 



nudam delineate fabrics compagem ex titulis materiam prout earn conceperat Baconus 

 absolventibus, nihil descriptionis continebat." See his letter to Rawley, May 29. 1652, in 

 the Baconiana, p. 223. 



1 In this edition I have placed the De Augmentis hefore the Historic* Ventorum ; 

 because, though published after, it was prepared and arranged, and in that sense com- 

 posed, before. And in this view I am supported by a slight variation which is 

 introduced here in the Latin version, viz. " Intervenerat opus de Augmentis Scien- 

 tiarum" &c. 



We learn also from the Latin version that Bacon worked at the translation of the 

 Advancement of Learning himself: in quo e lingua vernaculd, proprio Marte, in La- 

 tinam transferendo honoratissimus auctor plurimvm desudavit. 



2 These were the Essays as they appeared in the third and last edition ; but he 

 gave them a weightier title when he had them translated into " the general language:" 

 exinde dicti, sermones fideles, she interior a rerum. 



8 The Latin version adds, apud quos expeti audiveraf. 



* These words are omitted in the Latin version, and must have been left by over- 

 sight in the edition of 1661 ; for they occur in one of the cancelled leaves; and the 

 works in question had been printed in 1 658. The error is the more worth noticing 

 because it shows that wherever the English and the Latin differ, the Latin must be 

 regarded as the later and better authority. 



* The Latin version adds, ut de Julio Caw/. TTlrtius. 



