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174 FRANCIS BACON'S CRYPTIC RHYMES<br />

The Latin <strong>version</strong> is :<br />

" Sententiis, quae veluti<br />

spicula volitant."<br />

And again in this Essay a Latin author is quoted,<br />

one that is<br />

very little read and<br />

; again his words are<br />

translated into a verselet. In his " Life of the Em<br />

peror Probus " (Probus Imperator), Flavius Vobiscus,<br />

"<br />

the Roman historian, says<br />

: Brevi, inquit, milites<br />

necessaries non habebimus " ("In a short time we<br />

shall not need any soldiers"). Bacon, without naming<br />

"<br />

the author, quotes those words thus : Si vixero, non<br />

opus erit amplius Romano Imperio militibus." The<br />

sense is<br />

exactly the same, but the words have been<br />

made to rhyme :<br />

Si vixero,<br />

non O/KS<br />

erit amplius'<br />

Roman' Imperio<br />

mililibus.<br />

Or we might choose this form :<br />

Si vixero, non opus' erit' ampliws'<br />

Rom&n' Imperio mitit'ibus'.<br />

Two Latin iambic verses of five feet.<br />

The now following Essay, entitled " Of Atheism,"<br />

showed already in the earlier edition (1612) profusely<br />

rhymed sentences, which we here print at once in<br />

verse form :<br />

They that deny a God, destroy Mans Nobili/y<br />

:<br />

For certainly,<br />

Man is of Kinne to the Beasts, by his Body ; And if,<br />

he be<br />

not of Kinne to God, by his Spirit, he<br />

is a Base and Ignoble Creature.<br />

It destroys likewise Magnanimity,<br />

And the Raising of Humane Nature.

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