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"undervalued his law, and I knew Lawyers that "remembered it. Lord Bacon was Lord Pro"tector duringe King James's progreffe into "Scotland, and gave audience in great state to "Ambaffadors at Whitehall, in the Banqueting "Houfe. He would many times have musicke "in the next roome where he meditated. The

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aviary at Yorke Houfe was built by his Lordfhip it coft three hundred pounds. At every "meale, according to the feafon of the yeere, "he had his table ftrewed with fweet herbs and "flowers, which he faid did refresh his spirits. "When he was at his country-house at Gor

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hambury, St. Alban's feemed as if the Court "had been there, so nobly did he live; his fer"vants had liveries with his creft. His water"men were more employed by gentlemen than any other, except the King's.

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"His Lordship being in York House Garden, "looking on fishers as they were throwing their "nett, afk'd them what they would take for "their draught; they anfwer'd, So much. But

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his Lo' would offer them no more but fo much. "They drew up their netts, and it were onley two or three little fifhes. His LoP then told them it had been better for them to have taken "his offer. They replyed, they hoped to have "had a better draught; but, fay'd his Lo', hope "is a good breakfast, but an ill fupper.

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"When his LoP was in disfavour, his neigh"bours, hearing how much he was indebted, "came to him with a motion to buy oake wood "of him; his Lo' told them he would not fell "his feathers.

"The Earle of Manchefter being removed "from his place of Lord Chiefe Justice of the

Comon Pleas, to be Lord Prefident of the Councell, told my Lord (upon his fall) that "he was forry to fee him made fuch an ex"ample. L Bacon replied, it did not trouble "him, fince he was made a Prefident.

"The Bishop of London did cutt down a no"ble clowd of trees at Fulham; the Lord Chan"cellor told him that he was a good expounder "of darke places.

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"Upon his being in dis-favour, his fervants fuddenly went away: he compared them to "the flying of the vermin, when the house was 66 falling.

"One told his Lordship, it was now time to "looke about him. He replied, "I doe not "looke about, I looke above me."

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"S Julius Cæfar (Master of the Rolls) fent to his Lo', in his neceffity, a hundred pounds "for a prefent.

"His Lordship would often drinke a good "draught of strong beer (March beer) to bedwards, to lay his working fancy asleep, which "otherwise would keepe him from fleeping great part of the night.

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"He had a delicate lively hazel eie. "Harvey fayd to me, it was like the eie of a

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"I have now forgott what Mr. Bushell fayed, "wether his Lordship enjoyed his muse best at night or in the morning."

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Mr. Hobbes told Mr. Aubrey, that "the cause "of his Lo death was trying an experiment, "viz. As he was taking the aire in a coach with "Dr. Witherborne towards Highgate, fnow lay "on the ground, and it came into my Lord's

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thoughts why flesh might not be preserved in "fnow as in falt. They were refolved to try "the experiment, and ftaid fo long in doing it, "that Lord Bacon got a fhivering fit. He went "to Lord Arundel's houfe at Highgate, where

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"he was put into a damp bed, and died a few "days afterwards."

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Lord Bacon fays finely of Christianity, "There "hath not been discovered in any age, any phi lofophy, opinion, religion, law, or discipline, "which fo greatly exalts the common, and "leffens individual intereft, as the Christian religion doth."

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His rule respecting ftudy, and the application of the powers of the mind, is excellent: "Prac"tife them chiefly at two feveral times; the "one when the mind is well difpofed, the other "when it is worst difpofed; that by the one you

may gain a great step, by the other you may "work out the knots and stondes of the mind, "and make the middle times more easy and pleasant."

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Lord Bacon thus infcribed the feat in Gray's Inn Gardens, which he had put up to the memory of his friend Mr. Bettenham :

Francifcus Bacon Regis Sollicitor Generalis "Executor Teftamenti Jeremia Bettenham nuper "Lectoris hujus Hofpitij Viri innocentis abftinentis "&contemplativi Hanc Sedem in Memoriam ejus"dem Jeremia exftruxit

"Anno Dom. 1609."

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Wilfon, in fpeaking of the fentence paffed upon the Lord Treasurer, obferves, "Which fentence "was pronounced by the Lord Chancellor Baડર con, who though he were of tranfcendent parts, yet was he tainted with the fame infec❝tion, and not many years after perished in his "own corruption; which fhews, that neither "example nor precept (he having feen fo many, "and been made capable of fo much) can be a

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pilot fufficient to any port of happiness (though "Reafon be never fo able to direct) if Grace "doth not give the gale."

The following letter of Lord Bacon is preferved in Sir Toby Mathews' Collection of Englifh Letters. It is not inferted in the Folio Edition of Lord Bacon's Works, but is a striking inftance of the refources of the mind which this great though unfortunate man poffeffed; it is also an exquifite comment upon the celebrated fentence of Lactantius: 3

Eruditio inter profpera ornamentum-inter adverfa " refugium."

THE LORD VISCOUNT ST. ALBAN'S (BACON) TO THE BISHOP OF WINCHESTER (ANDREWS), AFTER HIS FALL. IT ACQUAINTS HIM BOTH WITH HIS COMFORTS AND HIS WRITINGS.

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"MY LORD,

"Amongst comforts, it is not the leaft to represent to a man's self the like examples of calamity

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