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IX
FRANCIS BACON'S ESSAY-RHYMES, AND THE
TRUTHS THEY REVEAL
Vere
Magnum, habere
Fragilitatem
Hominis,
Securitatem
FRANCIS BACON'S
(?)
" Essay
Of Adversitie."
To " The Translation of Certain Psalms " and the
"
Apophthegmes," published at Christmas 1624, a
third, and the most important work, was added some
where about Easter 1625, namely, the new edition of
the " Essays." There are various reasons which
justify that work being referred to in the superlative.
In the first it
place, was the most voluminous work of
the three, and treated of the profoundest matter. In the
second place, it was the last work which Bacon himself
caused to be printed. In the third place,
it contained
still more "concealed" rhymes than the anecdotes,
and such as reveal most clearly the "concealed"
authorship of the Shakespeare Plays.
When the Essays were first published, in 1597, they
appeared
in the form of a small volume containing no