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ii2 FRANCIS BACON'S CRYPTIC RHYMES by ; Here's much ado how you should get in ; but I hear nobody take care how you should get out. The verses open with the rhymes " because-jaws -basha's," the profusion of rhyme setting in with the answer of the natural fool : Here's much ado should get in ; but I hear nobody take care how you should get out. Instead of a final rhyme, we are here confronted with the comic contrast : "how you should get in how you should get out." But another " Much Ado Anecdote " is still more finely and more richly rhymed in the book. Cineas was an excellent orator and statesman, and principal friend and counsellour to Pyrrhus ; and falling in inward talk with him, and discerning the King's endless ambition, Pyrrhus opened himself to him ; That he intended first a war upon Italy, and hoped to atchieve it. Cineas asked him ; Sir, what will you do then ? Then (saith he) we will attempt Sicily. Cineas said ; Well, Sir, what then ? Then (saith Pyrrhus) if the Gods favour us, we may conquer Africk and Carthage. What then, Sir ? saith Cineas. Nay then (saith Pyrrhus) we may take our rest, and sacrifice and feast every day, and make merry with our friends. Alas, Sir, (said Cineas) may we not do so now, without all this ado ? Surely it is not by accident in this case either, that an anecdote told of a great orator, statesman and friend of a king, all of which Francis Bacon was, should be so profusely rhymed. The manner in which the wise
FRANCIS BACON'S CRYPTIC RHYMES 113 counsellor inveigles the bellicose spirit of the ambitious king by clever questioning, is indeed a masterpiece. First, he demurely asks the question, as if to betray curiosity, which, each time it is repeated, he asks in an accelerated tone and abbreviated form, until it is reduced to the words " " What then, Sir ? the whole concluding with a gentle admonition to the king, disguised in the form of a drastic jest. The verses set in, the moment the questioning and answering begin : Pyrrhus opened himself to him ; That he intended first a war upon Italy t and hoped to atchieve it. Cineas asked him ; Sir, what will you do then ? Then (saith he) we will attempt Sici/y. Cineas said ; Well, Sir, what then ? Then (saith Pyrrhus) if the Gods favour us, we may conquer Af rick and Carthage. Cineas. What then, Sir ? saith Nay then (saith Pyrrhus) we may take our rest, and sacrifice and feast every day, and make merry with our friends. Sir, (said Cineas), may we not do so now, without all this ado? Alas, But we cannot too often remind the reader, that these verses are "curiously" (secretly, cautiously) .aymed. No smooth, evenly flowing metre, no set form of stanza could express that which a poet and rhetorician of the first water, if not the greatest that ever lived or breathed, here recounts in an easy, off-hand manner. He begins by little more than suggesting a rhyme of a light kind here and there, till the pathetic words of the vain king set in : " Then H
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