FRANCIS BACON, LO: VERVLAM, VISCOVNT ST. ALBAN. First published in 1597, And now Edited by WALTER WORRALL With an Introduction by OLIPHANT SMEATON. NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO. LONDON: J. M. DENT & CO. MCM. TIBL PUBLIC LIBRARY 430997 A ASTOR, LENOX AND R 1929 L Printed by BALlantyne, HanSON & Co. ALOMON saies; A good Name is as a precious oyntment; And I assure my selfe, such wil your Graces Name bee, with Posteritie. For your Fortune, and Merit both, have beene Eminent. And you have planted Things, that are like to last. I doe now publish my Essayes; which of all my other workes, have beene most Currant: For that, as it seemes, they come home, to Mens Businesse, and Bosomes. I have enlarged them, both in Number, and Weight; So that they are indeed a New Worke. I thought it therefore agreeable, to my Affection, and Obligation to your Grace, to prefix your Name STY before them, both in English, and in Latine. For I doe conceive, that the Latine Volume of them, (being in the Universall Language) may last, as long as Bookes last. My Instauration, I dedicated to the King: My Historie of HENRY the Seventh, (which I have now also translated into Latine) and my Portions of Naturall History, to the Prince: And these I dedicate to your Grace; Being of the best Fruits, that by the good Encrease, which God gives to my Pen and Labours, I could yeeld. God leade your Grace by the Hand. Your Graces most Obliged and FR. ST. ALBAN. |
