3 Fish. Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. 1 Fish. Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear. Act ii. Sc. 1. Poems. Venus and Adonis. Line 145. For he being dead, with him is beauty slain, And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again. Line 1019. For greatest scandal waits on greatest state. Bad in the best, though excellent in neither. Crabbed age and youth Cannot live together. Lucrece. Line 1006. The Passionate Pilgrim, iii. Ibid. viii. Have you not heard it said full oft, She in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime. Ibid. xiv. Sonnet iii. Sonnet xvii. Sonnet xviii. The painful warrior, famoused for fight, When to the sessions of sweet silent thought And art made tongue-tied by authority. And simple truth miscalled simplicity, Do not drop in for an after-loss. Sonnet XXX. Sonnet lii. Sonnet Ixvi. Ibid. Sonnet lxx. Ah, do not, when my heart hath scaped this sorrow, When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim, Still constant in a wondrous excellence. And beauty, making beautiful old rhyme. My nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. Let me not to the marriage of true minds That full star that ushers in the even. O father, what a hell of witchcraft lies Sonnet xc. Sonnet xcviii. Sonnet cv. Sonnet cvi. Sonnet cxi. Sonnet cxvi. Sonnet cxxxii. A Lover's Complaint, St. xlii. FRANCIS BACON. 1561-1626. WORKS (SPEDDING AND ELLIS). I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavour themselves by way of amends to be a help and ornament thereunto. Maxims of the Law. Preface. Come home to men's business and bosoms. Dedication to the Essays. Ed. 1625. No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth. Revenge is a kind of civil justice. Essay i. Of Truth. Essay iv. Of Revenge. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the blessing of the New. Essay v. Of Adversity. Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.1 Ibid. He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Essay viii. Of Marriage and Single Life. 1 As aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow; Goldsmith, The Captivity, Act i. The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.—Rogers, Jacqueline, St. 3. A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.1 Essay xvi. Atheism. Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. Essay xix. Empire. God Almighty first planted a garden. 8 Essay xlvi. Of Gardens. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Essay 1. Of Studies. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. Ibid. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Ibid. Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. Proposition touching Amendment of Laws. Knowledge is power. Nam et ipsa scientia potes tas est. Meditationes Sacra. De Hæresibus. 1 Who are a little wise the best fools be. - Donne, Triple Fool. A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery; but depth in that study brings him about again to our religion. -Fuller, The Holy State. The True Church Antiquary. A little learning is a dangerous thing. Pope, Fsery on Criticism, Part ii. Line 15. 2 Kings are like stars- they rise and set-they have The worship of the world, but no repose. — Shelley, Hellas. $ God the first garden made, and the first city Cain. Cowley, The Garden, Essay v. God made the country, ard man made the town. Comper, The Tusk, Book i. Line 749. Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana ædificavit urbes. Varro, De Re Rustica, iii. 1. * A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength, — ¿very “de xxiv, d Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved for ever in amber, a more than royal tomb.1 Historia Vita et Mortis; Sylva Sylvarum, Cent. i. Exper. 100. When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you, having a large and fruitful mind, should not so much labour what to speak, as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich soils are often to be weeded. Letter of Expostulation to Coke. My Lord St. Albans said that nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.2 Apothegm No. 17. "Antiquitas sæculi juventus mundi." These times. are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves. Advancement of Learning. Book i. (1605.) 1 The bee enclosed and through the amber shown, Seems buried in the juice which was his own. Martial, Book iv. 31. Hay's Translation. I saw a flie within a beade Of amber cleanly buried. Herrick, On a Fly buried in Amber. Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Line 169. 2 Often the cockloft is empty, in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.-Fuller, Andronicus, Sect. vi. Par. 18. 1. 8 As in the little, so in the great world, reason will tell you that old age or antiquity is to be accounted by the farther distance from the beginning and the nearer approach to the end. The times |