Franers Lord Bacon. * 
| Thistsmoft wrue, He was free from Malice ; which,(-as he| 
 \faid Himjfelf, ) He never bred nor fed. He was no Keven- 
|gerof injuries; which, ifhe had minded, hebad both Oppor-| 
{tunity and Place High enongh, to baeve done it. He vas! 
| no Heaver of Men out of their Places, 4s delighting intheir 
| abroads than at home is his own Nation. Thereby verify. 
- \ing that Divine Sentence , A Prophet is not without ho- 
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* | fwered, That he would never have made his Majelties 
a r, written from Italy ( The Store-houle of Refined Wits) 
‘|tothe late Earl of Devonfhire , Then, the Lord (andith, 
~|*Bacon, 2s alfo his Hiffory, witha great deal of De. 
fires and whatfoever elfe he fhall compofe. But in|- 
[feet and Singular ; efpecially ia Henry the Seventh ; Where 
jing, \ This Lord is more and more known, arid his 
'|Books here, more and more delighted in ; And thofe 
| Men_ that shave more than: ordinary Knowledge in| 
, Sp rits of this Age; and he istruely fuch. Now his Fame 
_ | tunity of feeing him, and Difcourking with him : whereof one, 
Ruine:andindoings He was no defarier of any. Man 10 
bis Prince. One Day, when a great States-Man was-new-| 
| by Dead, That bad not been bis Friend ; The King asked bim, : 
What hethought of that Lord, which was gone? He an- 
Eftate better ; But he was fare he would have kept it 
from being worle., Whichwas the worft, be would fay of 
_ | bi. Which reckon, wot among bis Moral, but bis Chriftian | 
| His Fame ts greater, and founds louder in Forraign Parts 
nour, favein his‘own Country, and in his own honfe. 
ic sing which 1 will give you aTafte onely; out of a Let- 
{Iwill expeét the New Bffayes of my Lord (Chancellor 
Particular of his Héffory, | promife my felfa. thing per- 
be may emercife the: Talent of his Divine Underftand-| 
Humane affairs, efteem him! one of the moft capable} 
ECvE 
tb with Dayes finces but rather increafe. Di- 
vers of his Works have been anciently, and yet lately, eran- 
Plated into other Tongues, both Learned and Modern, 
éyForraign Pens. Several Perfons of Quality, during bis | 
Lordthips Life,crof)edthe Seas on purpofe to.gait an Oppor-| 
si car- 
