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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.