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FRANCIS BACON'S CRYPTIC RHYMES
dich Hebe. Ich will nicht sagen, bedaure mich ;
das 1st keine
soldatenhafte Phrase ;
aber ich sage, liebe mich :
Der for dich ficht,
In Ritterpflicht,
Bei Tageslicht,
Und wenn's gebricht,
Nachts minder nicht.
John Falstaff.
All modern editors in England, however, and the
translator Tieck, have overlooked the fact, that the whole
of the first half of the letter and more is conceived in
droll rhymes, although the outward form does not show
it
directly. The word "for" occurs at the end of
the first break line, which corresponds exactly to the
manner of speaking, the speaker often pausing a
moment after the conjunction "for," in order to render
more prominent that which is to follow. The word
rhymes with the final " 7 "
syllable in Counsailour
(counsellor 7 The word "Reason " forms a comic
).
rhyme
to "precisian" (modern editions print "physician").
Then " " I and " simpathie " rhyme three times. The
rhymes in the old print are mostly distinguished by
colons ;
for the sign
: is contained no fewer than six
times in the first sentences. So that we might print the
first sentences as rhymed verses in the following form :
Aske me no reason why I love you, for
though Love use Reason
for his preasww,
hee admits him not for his Counsai/o/ :
you are not yong, no more am 7:
goe to then, there's simpathie :
you are merry, so am / :
ha, ha, then there's more simpa//wV :
you love sacke, and so do / :
would you desire better simpathie ?