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176 FRANCIS BACON'S CRYPTIC RHYMES And who can blame us if, when reading these rhymes, we recall the tragic scenes and atrocities of the dramas ? Even Bacon himself in the same Essay, " Of Empire," and with the same stroke of the pen, writes down the word " Tragedies," albeit as a man of discretion he does not say mean : I the Shakespeare Tragedies and Histories. The next Essay, however, that "Of Counsell," almost doth something of the kind, for it contains a rhymed, somewhat plain allusion to the dramas that had appeared under the name of an " Actor" : It was truly said, Optimi Consiliarii mortui, Books will speake plaine, when Counsellors Blanch. Therefore it is good to be conversant in them ; Specially the Bookes of such, as Themselves have been Actors upon the Stage. Here again we have a repetition of what we saw in the fifth Essay, viz., words of wisdom consisting in a mixture of English and Latin, and all rhymed, as usual ; all, except the last line ! which does not rhyme : It was truly said, Opti Consilarii mortui. Books will speake plaine, when Counsellors Blanch Therefore it is good to be conversant in them ; Special/y the Bookes of such, as Themselves have been Actors upon the Stage ? (? !) Let us substitute the word "Scene" ! For we may be sure that is what Bacon meant and nothing else ; in other words, we have another vexing-rhyme before us. And thus, from Essay to Essay, we trace his allu sions to Occult Arts, to the Stage, to the titles of the
FRANCIS BACON'S CRYPTIC RHYMES 177 Plays, to the choice of an " Instrument." In the lastmentioned case, we even discover a direct reference to the Book of the " Actor," which had appeared two years before. The following Essay, No. 21, "Of Delayes," is one of the shortest in the book. It first appeared in 1625, and with respect to the art of rhyming, it again exposes the fact that Bacon deliberately suppresses rhymes, thus challenging the reader to fill them in for himself. The words we have in mind are these : For Occasion (as it is in the Common verse) turneth a Bald Noddle, after she hath presented her locks in Front, and no hold taken : Here then a " verse " is quoted that is not really a verse, and the reader is supposed to fill in the rhyme. We refer to the somewhat strong saying : Take Dame Fortune by the forelock, Else she will show you her b . . . . ck. In the course of the same Essay the opposite takes place. Here, where we should expect the rhyme, there is none ; in the next sentences, where we have no reason to look for rhymes, we find them in abun dance, two-thirds of the whole Essay are rhymed we ; shall, however, merely take out the passage which may be considered a direct paraphrase, a poetic ex pansion of the beautiful words in King Lear, " Ripe ness is all " : The Ripenesse, or Unripenesse, of the Occasion (as we said) must ever be well weighed And ; generally, it is good, to commit the Beginnings of all great Actions, to Argos with his hundred Eyes ; And the Ends to Briareus with his hundred Hands ; First to Watch, and then to Speed. M
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