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12 FRANCIS BACON'S CRYPTIC RHYMES
not only with diligence and attention, but also
"
curiously." And these are the very books which
are "curiously" written, "curiously rhymed." For
only he that reads them very carefully, if possible,
aloud, only he that listens with the ear of the
poet, will detect the concealed, secret rhymes,
in the
prose.
Here then we have the proof that Bacon wrote, not
only the psalms presented to the Marquis Fiatt,
"curiously rhymed," but that he also "curiously
rhymed " a passage in an Essay. Later on, we shall
see how frequently the same thing occurs in the same
book, viz., wherever Bacon wishes to tell us some
thing of particular importance. In charmingly cunning
rhymes he thus draws the reader's attention to the
fact that he wrote this Book " curiously," and that he
accordingly wants us to read it
"curiously."
Do not these new-found facts, testifying to the
secretly (curiously) rhyming poetic talent of Francis
Bacon, agree excellently with what was discovered by
former investigations regarding Bacon ? Do they
not agree with the fact that immediately
after the
death of Queen Elizabeth (1603) Bacon calls himself,
in an important letter of friendship, a
concealed Poet ?
(Rawley's " Resuscitatio.")
Do they not agree with the fact that in his "Apology"
(1604) Bacon says that he once wrote a sonnet for the
Queen, carefully adding, in brackets, the ambiguous
sentence :
(though I profess not to be a poet ) ?
Dp they not agree with Rawley's words, which in