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120 FRANCIS BACON'S CRYPTIC RHYMES book in question is entitled " Les Oevvres Morales et Politiques de Messire Fran9ois Bacon, Grand Chancelier d'Angleterre. De la Version de I. Baudoiiin. A Paris. 1633." In this book also many of the anecdotes are beauti fully rhymed, and, doubtless, in that form, they did not fail to produce the wonted effect upon the guests present at Bacon's merry entertainments. Before proceeding to give samples of the great English humorist's talent for rhyming in French verse, we would ask the reader kindly to remember that those witty rhymes were written before the time of Corneille, Racine, and Moliere, that it was an English man who set himself the task of rhyming in French, and that the rhymed verses are not printed as such, do not claim to but in modest prose-form, so that they be classic works, though, from the humoristic point of view, they must be so termed. They are rhymes such as Bacon recited for the delectation of others, calculated chiefly to satisfy the ear (as every rhyme and is) not written for the eye (though, strange to say, the French man of to-day attributes so much importance to the orthography of a rhyme). In most cases, the point also here flashes up in a short rhyme, and, as in the original, the rhyme does not set in until the questioning and answering begin. Should any one, however, object to the varying length of the French verses, we would refer him to the poems by the great poet La Fontaine, author of the French Fables, and also to certain poems of Victor Hugo and others. Even La Fontaine affords many a sample of irregular grouping of the rhymes. And the very short lines with their quick succession
FRANCIS BACON'S CRYPTIC RHYMES 121 of rhymes, by Bacon, will find their counterpart in Original French rhymes. Thus, for instance, the opening lines of the poem " Les Djinns" in Victor Hugo's " Les Orientales " : Murs, ville, Et port, Asile De mort, Mer grise Oil brise La brise Tout dort. The same form occurs in the very latest style of modern French poetry : ha! ha! le rat est la. mors, mors. Saute dessus. ha! ha! le rat est la ! Sus ! Sus ! C'est bien mordu. Again in the epitaph to a young girl : Fort belle, elle dort ! Sort frele quelle mort ! Rose close La brise 1'a prise. Most of us would group the words to verses of this form : Fort belle, elle dort ! Sort frele quelle mort ! Rose close La brise 1'a prise. In reality, however, we have before us a perfect
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