16 DR. RAWLEY'S LIFE OF BACON. 



expression, That his lordship had been ever to him like the angels , 

 of whom he had often heard, arid read much of them in books, 

 but he never saw them. After which they contracted an inti- 

 mate acquaintance, and the marquis did so much revere him, 

 that besides his frequent visits, they wrote letters one to the 

 other, under the titles and appellations of father and son. As 

 for his many salutations by letters from foreign worthies devoted 

 to learning, I forbear to mention them, because that is a thing 

 common to other men of learning or note, together with him. 



But yet, in this matter of his fame, I speak in the compara- 

 tive only, and not in the exclusive. For his reputation is great in 

 his own nation also, especially amongst those that are of a more 

 acute and sharper judgment ; which I will exemplify but with 

 two testimonies and no more. The former, when his History of 

 King Henry the Seventh was to come forth, it was delivered to 

 the old Lord Brook, to be perused by him ; who, when he had 

 dispatched it, returned it to the author with this eulogy, Com- 

 mend me to my lord, and bid him take care to get good paper 

 and ink, for the work is incomparable. The other shall be that 

 of Doctor Samuel Collins, late provost of King's College in 

 Cambridge, a man of no vulgar wit, who affirmed unto me *, 

 I , That wlien he had read the book of the Advancement of Learning , 

 he found himself in a case to begin his studies anew, and that he 

 had lost all the time of his studying before. 



It hath been desired, that something should be signified touch- 

 ing his diet, and the regimen of his healtj^, of which, in regard 

 of his universal insight into nature, he may perhaps be to some 

 an example. For his diet, it was rather a plentiful and liberal 

 diet, as his stomach would bear it, than a restrained ; which he 

 also commended in his book of the History of Life and Death. 

 In his younger years he was much given to the finer and lighter 

 sort of meats, as of fowls, and such like ; but afterward, when 

 he grew more judicious 2 , he preferred the stronger meats, such 

 as the shambles afforded, as those meats which bred the more 

 firm and substantial juices of the body, and less dissipable; upon 

 which he would often make his meal, though he had other 

 meats upon the table. You may be sure he would not neglect 

 that himself, which he so much extolled in his writings, and 



1 In the Latin version Rawley has thought it worth while to add that this may 

 have been said playfully : Sive festive sive serio. 



2 More judicious (that is) by experience and observation : experientla edoctus is the 

 expression in the Latin version. 



