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198 FRANCIS BACON'S CRYPTIC RHYMES One of them we have already mentioned interpolated. as containing the word " " curiously applied to reading : Some Bookes are to be Tasted, Others to be Swallow
FRANCIS BACON'S CRYPTIC RHYMES 199 One of the next Essays winds up with a similar volley of rhymes : For saith Pliny very Wittily In ; commending Another, you doe your selfe right; For he that you Commend, is either Superiour to you, in that you Commend, or Inferiour. If he be Inferiour, if he be to be Commended, you much more : If he be Superiour, if he be not to be commended, you much lesse. All is rhyme (with Bacon, not with Pliny). The only lines that do not rhyme are those with the two contrasting words at the end: "more" and "less." " A choice bit of drollery is afforded us in the line : If he be Inferiour, if he be to be ... " and its part. Here are the lines translated into verse : For saith Pliny very Witti/y ; In commending Another, you doe your selfe right ; that you Commend, is either Superiour to you, in that you Commend, or Inferiour. If he be Inferiour, if he be to be commended, you much more. If he be Supenour, if he be not to be commended, vou much lesse. counter For he Thus we have seen how closely certain Essays are related to certain dramas in the thoughts and ideas they express ; we have seen how other Essays speak of certain qualities of character which are at once to be observed in several of the dramas. We saw how Bacon would translate Latin prose-quotations in English rhymed verses, in order to obtain his object ; we have seen the means he employs to render promi nent certain passages concealed in his own prose text by couching them in verse form, whenever he wishes them to refer to a certain piece or person in the plays, or to the title of a drama. We have seen him in his
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