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178 FRANCIS BACON'S CRYPTIC RHYMES<br />

Some lines before, a bracketed remark (" as it is in<br />

the Common verse ")<br />

drew our attention to the fact<br />

that we ought to imagine the lines as being written<br />

in verse-form. Here, a bracketed remark (" as we<br />

said") points to the fact that these are verses! For<br />

the words are interpolated merely for the sake of the<br />

verses, of the rhymes, in the passage on " Ripenesse "<br />

and " Unripenesse " :<br />

The Ripenesse, or Unripenesse, of<br />

the Occasion (as we have said)<br />

must ever be well weigh* d ;<br />

And generally,<br />

it<br />

is good to commit<br />

the Beginnings of all great Actions, to Argus<br />

with his hundred Eyes And the Ends<br />

;<br />

to Briare?

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