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40 FRANCIS BACON'S CRYPTIC RHYMES In English : " My right hand and the spear which I shake, be my God (my guardian spirit) ; may " now assist me ! they " Librare " is " to shake ; " " telum " is the " spear," the added word "missile" makes it more than ever the "hurled spear." But we alluded to an arbitrary alteration of Virgil's words. Here it is. The wording of the original edition of the "Advancement of Learning" (1605) and also the edition of 1633 runs thus : Dextra mihi Deus, et telum quod inutile libro, Nunc adsint. In English : " My right hand and the useless hurling-spear, which I shake, be my God (my guardian " spirit) may they now assist me ; ! Spedding, the editor of the latest complete edition of Bacon's Works, tries to put it down to, and explain it away as, a printer's error ; but he is not quite sure about it ; he does not exactly know what to make of it. To be sure, a "telum inutile" (a useless spear), represented as God or a guardian spirit, is indeed contradictory to reason. The contradiction ceases, however, the moment we read the passage in the sense in which the author Bacon meant it to be read : spirit ! My right hand and the useless Shakespeare be my guardian So far Bacon himself. But when, immediately after his death, those thirty-two elegies were published in Latin, which bemoaned him as the foremost of the English poets, as the favourite of Melpomene, the comparison to the hurling-spear recurs repeatedly.
FRANCIS BACON'S CRYPTIC RHYMES 41 " " Mille spicula (a thousand hurling spears) were required, according to one poem, to kill him. And the last and longest of the poems, the one by the young playwright Thomas Randolph, who, as we have already heard, acknowledges Bacon the Apollo, saying of him that he taught the " Pegasean rival of Arts " to grow, compares Bacon to a " Quirinus " casting a " hasta " (a spear). In the word " Quirinus," however, the comparison to the spear again occurs ; it is derived from the old "quiris" or "curis," the "spear," the " lance." A "Quirinus" is of itself a spear-darter; a "Quirinus," hurling a "hasta," is still more so. The words are printed in one and the same line as the " Pegasean Arts " : (artes) Crescere Pegaseas docuit, velut hasta Quirini Crevit . . . In conclusion, let me mention the significant poem, with which we began the chapter on the Occult Arts, the poem containing the line : " Thou stand'st as if a " mystery thou didst ! In that poem Ben Jonson sang the praises of Francis Bacon on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. Here it is in its entirety : Hail, happy genius of this ancient pile ! How comes it all things so about thee smile ? The the fire, wine, the men ! and in the midst Thou stand'st as if a mystery thou didst ! Pardon, I read it in thy face, the day For whose returns, and many, all these pray ; And so do I. This is the sixtieth year Since Bacon and thy lord was born, and here ; Son to the grave, wise keeper of the seal, Fame and foundation of the English weal.
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