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138 FRANCIS BACON'S CRYPTIC RHYMES
not to be conw/aded, and where the Ayre is alwaies ckare
and serene ;)
And to see the Errours, and Wandrings, and Mists, and
Tempests' in the vale below ;
" " Battel' and " Castel' " have the emphasis after the
French style, on the last syllable, as we saw in the
popular ballads, and rhyme with the preceding word
" " well." Window' " (as in one of the popular ballads
in Hamlet) has the accent on the last syllable, and so
rhymes with " below " repeated twice, in the final
syllable. "Comparabil"' rhymes with "hill" and
perhaps also with the preceding " well-Castel'- Battel' "
which syllables have at least a similar sound. Wherever
the long lines appear, they abound with internal rhymes,
exactly similar to the rhymes in the anecdotes and in
the prayer. The word " Tempests'," is probably meant
to rhyme with " Mists." In the first long line we have
the internal rhymes "stan-pon-van" in rapid succession,
in the second " where- Ayre-cleare
" constituted perfect
rhymes in the time of Shakespeare. The word " be "
rhymes across with "see" as an internal rhyme with
the next line, and both rhyme with the word " Sea"
above. Any one reading the sentence over several
times aloud, cannot fail to detect all these abundant,
almost superabundant rhymes. If we divide the
lines according to the number of the rhymes, the
second half of the verses would assume this form :
But no pleasure is comparafo/'
to the stan
ding, upon
the van
tage ground of Truth :
(A
not to be
hill