The Lord Verulam. 



operations of the Corporal. By thii means he hath found cut fo many 

 rare fecrets, whereof he hath bequeath' d us the invention 5 and mad''. 

 many axioms acknowledged for falfe^ rchich hithereto have gone currerit 

 amongji Philofophers, and have been held inviolable. 



Tab. Adamii in his Preface to the Realis Philofophia, of that excel- 

 lent Philosopher Campanel/u (who lives to enjoy that Fame, which 

 many eminent for their Learning, rarely poflefs after, death} (peaks 

 his opinion thus. 



fp'c ereCi no Se& , efiablifl) no Vlacits of Hereflc^ but endeavour to 

 tranfcribc univerfal and ever-veritable Philofophy otit of the Ancient 0- 

 riginal Copy of the World : not according to variable and dijpntable fpe- 

 culationsy hut according to the ConditHure of fenfe and irrefragable dC'^ 

 pojitions of the Architect himfclf, rvhofe hands in works, dijjents not 

 from his ivord in writing. And if the great Inftauration of the deep- 

 mining rhilofopher, Francis Bacon, Lord, VerulamjChancellor of Eng- 

 land, a work.of high expectation, and mofi worthy, as of conflderation, 

 foof ajfijlance, be brought to perfection, it will perchance appear, that we 

 purfue the fame ends 5 feeing we tread the fame foot-Jieps in tracing,andy 

 as it TPere, hounding nature, by Sence and Experience, d^c, 



Sr. Tob. Mathews, in his Epiftle to the Duke of Florence prefixt his 

 Italick Tranflation of my Lord Bacon^s •^ff^yfi amongft other Elogies 

 decyphers him thus. 



St. Au^in faid of his illegitimate fon, Horrori mihi erat illud inge« 

 nium, and truly I have known a great number whom I much value, ma- 

 ny tehom I admire, hut none veho hath fo a^onipt me, and, as it were, 

 ravijfjt my fenfe s, tofeefomany and fo great parts, which in other men 

 vpere wont to be incompatible, united, and that in an iminent degree in 

 one fole Per/on. I kjiownot ivhether this truth will find eafie belief that 

 there can be found a man beyond the Alpes, of a molt ready wit 5 moU 

 faithful memory j moji profound judgement ; of a mojl rich and apt cx- 

 prejjion j univerfal in all ki"ds of knowledge , as in p irt may. be jctt?. 

 by that rare incomparable piece, the Advancement of Learning, which 

 future Ages pall render in different languages : But be the faith of other 

 nations what it will in this point, the matter I report is jo well under- 

 ^tftffs/ z» England, that every man knows and acknowledges as much , 

 nay, hath been an eye and ear-witnel? thereof :, nor, if Ifliould expatiate 

 upon this fnbjeB,f)ould I be held a flatterer, hut rather aj'ufft-agan to 

 truth. 



Mr. George Sandys in his excellent Commentaries on his inimitable 

 Tranflation of the (lately Metamorphofis, rendred,in an equal felicity 

 ofexpreffion, to the eternal dres oi" that fvcet-tongudRowmj often 

 cites the judgement of our Author, from whofe fentence he never 

 appeals,but rather adores as an Oracle '-, and in an ingenious acknov/-, 

 ledgementof adiftance from him, thus delivers him to pofterity. 



Of Jllodern writers I have receivd the greatest light from Gcmldus, 

 Pontanus, Ficinus, Vives, Comes, Scaliger, Sabinus, and the Crown 

 of the later, the Vicount of St. Albans •-, ajftlied, though lejS conjiantly 



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