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FRANCIS BACON'S CRYPTIC RHYMES 143
Man hath obtained worthy Ends, and Expectations. Death
hath this also ;
That it
openeth the Gate, to good Fame, and
extinguished Enuie.
Extinctus amabitur idem.
The Latin " Nunc dimittis " is a quotation from the
Bible (Luke ii. 29). The final quotation is taken
from the Epistles of Horace, though (as
in the case
of Lucrece) the poet's name is hushed up. But not
only are the final words in Latin part of a verse the
whole part added in 1625 is rhymed. The first six
lines are of various lengths, one and four, two and
five, three and six, forming rhymes. Words then
follow, which may be treated as long lines with internal
rhymes, or as short lines profusely rhymed. The con
cluding lines would be rhymed, the moment the Latin
words are expressed in "
English : Extinguish'd, he
is loved the same." Translated into verse-form :
He that dies in an earnest Pursuit, is like one,
that is wounded in hot Bloud;
who, for the time, scarce feeles the Hurt ;
And therefore, a Minde fixt, and bent upon
somewhat, that is good,
doth avert
the Dolors of Death :
But above all,
beleeve it,
the sweetest Canticle ts
Nunc dimit//'s ;
when a Man hath obtained worthy Ends, and Expectations.
Death
hath this also ;
That it
openeth'
the Gate, to good Fame,
and extinguisAtf//t'
Enuie. Extinguish'd, he is loved the same.
Through the rhymes "upon," "good" and "avert,"
at shorter distances the words with which
following