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* EER and Produétions, of bis laff five years. Fis’ Lord- 
jfhip-aljo defigned upon the Motion and In-vitation of bes lace| 
- | Majelty ;-To have written ‘the Reign of King F tenty ‘the 
_|Eighth; But chat Work Perifhed in the Defignation: ineer~ 
i bys God not lending bim Life,to proceed urther upon it then 
only in one Mornings Work: ‘whereof there is Bxtant, An, 
| Ex Ungue Leonem: already prianeasit a eee Mic. 
cellany Works. 
 Tbere ts a Commemoration tie? As well, to bis bilities, 
and Fertues, as to the’ Courte of bis Life. "Thofe Abilities, | 
| which conimonly go fingle in other Mens thotigh of prime, and 
| Obfer-veable, ‘Parts, were all conjoynéits and met in Him, 
| Thofe ‘are, Sharpnels of Wit, Memory, ‘Judgment , and 
-jElocution. For the Former T bree, bts Books do iat 
dantly {peak them , which, with what sufficiency he wrote, let| 
_|the World judge; “But with what Celerity be, wrote hem, 
‘Leas bef? teftifie. But for the Fourth, bis Elocution ; I vill 
| only fer down what Ibeard,Sit Walter Rawleigh; once Speak 0 
bim by Way of Gomparifon ( whofe Judgment may well be|. 
trifted. ) Thatthe Earl of Salifburg, was an excellent 
f ker, but no good Pen-man 3 That the Earl of Norzb-| 
\ampton , ’ (the Lord Henry Howard ,) was an excellent] 
_ |Pea-man, but‘no good speaker ; But that Sir Francis|, 
Bacou,was Eminent in both. | 
| -Ibarve been. enduced to think That if there were, a| 
Beam of Knowledge derived from God upon any 
| Man, in thefe Modern Times , it was upon Him. For 
- |though be was a great Reader of Books ; yet he had 
not bis Knowledee from Books 3 But from fome Grounds,| 
and Notions » from within Himfelf. Which notwith- 
\eanding , be vented with great Caution’ and Circum- 
{pe sion. His Book, of Inftauration Magna, ( which, 
in bis own Account, wwas the thiefe ft of bis Works,) was no 
Slight Ima ination, ar Fancy, of bis brain. but a setled, 
ic “Notion, The Produétion of many years, 
Labour, , and’ eave, I my Self, have fee, at the lest, 
Twelve Coppies; of the Inftauration : ‘Revifed, year by 
| regi another , And every year altered, and amewded,| 
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