223. An Ægyptian priest having conference with Solon, said to him; "You Græcians are ever children; you have no knowledge of antiquity, nor antiquity "of knowledge."

227. Diogenes was one day in the market-place with a candle in his hand; and being asked, "What "he sought?" he said, " He sought a man."

228. Bias being asked; How a man should order his life? answered; "As if a man should live long, "or die quickly."

229. Queen Elizabeth was entertained by my lord Burleigh at Theobalds: and at her going away, my lord obtained of the queen to make seven knights. They were gentlemen of the country, of my lord's friends and neighbours. They were placed in a rank, as the queen should pass by the hall, and to win antiquity of knighthood, in order, as my lord favoured; though indeed the more principal gentlemen were placed lowest. The queen was told of it, and said nothing; but when she went along, she passed them all by, as far as the skreen, as if she had forgot it: and when she came to the skreen, she seemed to take herself with the manner, and said, "I had almost forgot "what I promised." With that she turned back, and knighted the lowest first, and so upward. Whereupon Mr. Stanhope, of the privy-chamber, a while after told her: "Your majesty was too fine for my "lord Burleigh." She answered; "I have but ful"filled the Scripture; the first shall be last, and the "last first."

235. Sir Fulke Grevill had much private access to Queen Elizabeth, which he used honourably, and did many men good; yet he would say merrily of himself, "That he was like Robin Goodfellow; for when the "maids spilt the milkpans, or kept any racket, they "would lay it upon Robin: so what tales the ladies "about the queen told her, or other bad offices that "they did, they would put it upon him."

240. There was a politic sermon, that had no divinity in it, was preached before the king. The king, as he came forth, said to bishop Andrews;

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you this a sermon ?" The bishop answered, " "it please your majesty, by a charitable construction, "it may be a sermon."

244. Henry Noel would say, "That courtiers were "like fasting-days; they were next the holy-days, but " in themselves they were the most meagre days of "the week."

247. Cato said, "The best way to keep good acts " in memory, was to refresh them with new."

259. Aristippus said, "He took money of his "friends, not so much to use it himself, as to teach "them how to bestow their money."

260. A strumpet said to Aristippus, “That she was "with child by him:" he answered, "You know that no more, than if you went through a hedge of "thorns, you could say, This thorn pricked me."

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263. Democritus said, That truth did lie in pro"found pits, and when it was got, it needed much re-. "fining.

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266. Diogenes said of a young man that danced daintily, and was much commended: "The better, "the worse."

271. There was a nobleman that was lean of visage, but immediately after his marriage he grew pretty plump and fat. One said to him, "Your lordship "doth contrary to other married men; for they at the "first wax lean, and you wax fat." Sir Walter Raleigh stood by, and said, " Why, there is no beast, "that if you take him from the common, and put him "into the several, but he will wax fat."

272. Diogenes seeing one, that was a bastard, casting stones among the people, bad him take heed he hit not his father."

275. It was said by many concerning the canons of the council of Trent, "That we are beholden to "Aristotle for many articles of our faith."

CERTAIN APOPHTHEGMS OF LORD BACON.

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HIS REMAINS.

1. PLUTARCH said well, "It is otherwise in a "commonwealth of men than of bees: the hive of a "city or kingdom is in best condition when there is "least of noise or buz in it."

2. The same Plutarch said of men of weak abilities set in great place, "That they were like little statues "set on great bases, made to appear the less by their "advancement."

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3. He said again, "Good fame is like fire. When you have kindled it, you may easily preserve it; but "if once you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle "it again; at least, not make it burn as bright as it "did."

4. Queen Elizabeth seeing Sir Edward in her garden, looked out at her window, and asked him in Italian," What does a man think of when he thinks

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of nothing?" Sir Edward, who had not had the effect of some of the queen's grants so soon as he hoped and desired, paused a little; and then made answer, Madam, he thinks of a woman's promise." The queen shrunk in her head; but was heard to say, "Well, Sir Edward, I must not confute you." Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

5. When any great officer, ecclesiastical or civil, was to be made, the queen would inquire after the piety, integrity, and learning of the man. And when she was satisfied in these qualifications, she would consider of his personage. And upon such an occasion she pleased once to say to me, "Bacon, how can "the magistrate maintain his authority when the "man is despised?"

6. In eighty-eight, when the queen went. from Temple-bar along Fleet-street, the lawyers were ranked on one side, and the companies of the city on the other; said Mr. Bacon to a lawyer who stood next to him, "Do but observe the courtiers; if they

"bow first to the citizens, they are in debt; if first "to us, they are in law."

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: 7. King James was wont to be very earnest with the country gentlemen to go from London to their country houses. And sometimes he would say thus to them, Gentlemen, at London you are like ships ❝at sea, which shew like nothing; but in your coun"try villages you are like ships in a river, which look "like great things."

8. Soon after the death of a great officer, who was judged no advancer of the king's matters, the king said to his solicitor Bacon, who was his kinsman, "Now tell me truly, what say you of your cousin "that is gone?" Mr. Bacon answered, "Sir, since

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your majesty doth charge me, I'll e'en deal plainly "with you, and give you such a character of him, as "if I were to write his story. I do think he was no "fit counsellor to make your affairs better; but yet "he was fit to have kept them from growing worse. The king said, "On my so'l, man, in the first thou speakest like a true man, and in the latter, like a "kinsman."

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9. King James, as he was a prince of great judg ment, so he was a prince of a marvellous pleasant humour; and there now come into my mind two instances of it. As he was going through Lusen, by Greenwich, he asked what town it was? They said, Lusen. He asked a good while after, "What town "is this we are now in?" They said still, 'twas Lusen. "On my so'l," said the king, "I will be king of Lusen."

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10. In some other of his progresses, he asked how far it was to a town whose name I have forgotten. They said, Six miles. Half an hour after, he asked again. One said, Six miles and an half. The king alighted out of his coach, and crept under the shoulder of his led horse. And when some asked his majesty what he meant? "I must stalk," said he, " for yon"der town is shy, and flies me."

11. Count Gondomar sent a compliment to my lord St. Alban, wishing him a good Easter. My

lord thanked the messenger, and said, "He could not "at present requite the count better than in returning "him the like; that he wished his lordship a good "Passover."

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12. My lord chancellor Elsmere, when he had read a petition which he disliked, would say, "What, you would have my hand to this now?" And the party answering, Yes;" he would say farther, Well, so you shall: nay, you shall have both my "hands to it." And so would, with both his hands, tear it in pieces.

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13. Sir Francis Bacon was wont to say of an angry man who suppressed his passion, "That he thought worse than he spake;" and of an angry man that would chide, "That he spoke worse than he "thought."

14. He was wont also to say, "That power in an "ill man was like the power of a black witch; he "could do hurt, but no good with it." And he would add, "That the magicians could turn water "into blood, but could not turn the blood again to "water."

15. When Mr. Attorney Coke, in the exchequer, gave high words to Sir Francis Bacon, and stood much upon his higher place; Sir Francis said to him, "Mr.

Attorney, the less you speak of your own greatness, "the more I shall think of it: and the more, the less."

16. Sir Francis Bacon coming into the earl of Arundel's garden, where there were a great number of ancient statues of naked men and women, made a stand, and, as astonished, cried out, "The resur "rection!"

17. Sir Francis Bacon, who was always for moderate counsels, when one was speaking of such a reformation of the Church of England, as would in effect make it no Church; said thus to him, "Sir, the "subject we talk of is the eye of England; and if "there be a speck or two in the eye, we endeavour to "take them off; but he were a strange oculist who "would pull out the eye."

18. The same Sir Francis Bacon was wont to