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94 FRANCIS BACON'S CRYPTIC RHYMES the Shakespeare plays. With the suggested altera tion, the opening sentence of the dedicatory the volume of psalms would run thus : The pains, that it pleased you to take, about words to some of my Writings, I cannot forget : which did put me in minde, to Dedicate to you, this poor Exercise of my Gout (Bacon's Sickness). So that not only in the psalms dedicated to Marquis Fiatt (lost to us), but right here in the psalms openly written in verse-form, in the very first place that offered itself, concealed in the preface written in proseform, we discover a verselet " curiously rhymed " in the very first sentence of the book. Besides the psalms, two short poems discovered later are said to have been written by Bacon, and have lately been added to the complete edition of his works. One is cast in Alexandrines, the other in a mellifluous form of iambic verse, the lines varying from five to two feet. The first stanza of the secondnamed poem runs thus : The world's a bubble, and the life of man less than a span ; In his conception wretched, so to the tomb. from the womb Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years with cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust. 41 The world's a bubble " whom does that not remind of certain passages in the Plays ? " Frail " the very word conjures up Hamlet. " But writes in dust " who can help recalling the line in Henry the Eighth : " Their virtues we write in water ? " I am
FRANCIS BACON'S CRYPTIC RHYMES 95 not aware of any passage in literature in which the nothingness of human life is expressed in terms of profounder sadness and in a sweeter tone. The following, though in parts a somewhat free translation, retains the rhyme and metre of the original : Die Welt ist Tand, des Menschenlebens Traum bloss spannlang kaum ; Vom Mutterschoss durch Elend rings umdroht bis in den Tod. Mit Sorgen wachst es auf von Kindesbein, mit Furcht und Pein. Wer drum der schwachen Sterblichkeit vertraut, Schreibt nur in Staub, hat nur auf Sand gebaut.
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