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130 FRANCIS BACON'S CRYPTIC RHYMES fact that the passage is quoted differently from the actual wording of the Bible, and that the final word "Acting" signifies both "acting on the stage" and " ordinary bodily action." We shall deal with two other ambiguous words and their concealed meanings later on, when we shall have become sufficiently acquainted with the secret designs of the author in writing the Essays. When speaking of Bacon's estimation of poetry, we had occasion to refer to several items in said Essay; and we saw that, it though is headed "Of Truth," the Essay is rather an eulogy of poetry, more especially dramatic poetry, that pervades the work than a treatise on Truth. Bacon bases his theory upon the argument that naked truth has in it something startling to human nature. What were the mind of man without that spice added by " Lies " called by the names of vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, etc., other than a poor melancholy thing ? Somewhat of a lie humanity needs to render existence bearable. But one sort of lie it is that gladdens and animates mankind. It is the sweet lie of poesy, which doth not sink into the mind and take root there, but only glides through as the " shadow of a Lie." Thus then, Truth blended with the lie of poesy excels naked truth, as a diamond or carbuncle exceeds in value that of a pearl. For the pearl shows its beauty by day, but the diamond and the carbuncle appear most beautiful at night by lamp or torch-light, and by candle-lights. The words used here are not the exact words of the English Essay, but they do render the main idea
FRANCIS BACON'S CRYPTIC RHYMES 131 exactly as far as the first part is concerned. In order to correctly interpret all the Essay says, we were obliged to resort to the English, French and Latin editions which complement each other. The author commences the sentences forming the nucleus proper of the first half of the Essay, with a cautious " I cannot tell," a phrase often met with in the Shakespeare Plays : But I cannot tell : This same Truth is a Naked, and Open day light, that doth not shew, the Masques, and Mummeries, and Triumphs of the world, halfe so Stately, and daintily, as Candlelights. In Latin that sentence expresses still more clearly the idea of a real Theatre and its artificial lighting : Sed nescio quomodo, Veritas ista (utpote nuda & manifesta Lux diurna), personatas hujusMundi Fabulas, Ineptiasque, non tarn magnifice & eleganter ostendit, quam Taedae, Lucernaeque nocturnae. " Personatae Fabulae " is the Latin expression for "Plays"; ''Taedae, Luceraeque nocturnae" points still more clearly than the English " Candlelights," to the lighting of the stage, about which we learn further details from the same book in the " Essay, Of Masques and Triumphs," for the English Court Stage employed the same implements as our modern stage, often even more costly means. Then follows the sentence : Truth may perhaps come to the price of a Pearle, that sheweth best by day : But it will not rise, to the price of a Diamond, or Carbuncle, that sheweth best in varied lights. That is the poetic kernel of the Essay, meaning
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