Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Ibid.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavour themselves by way of amends to be a help and ornament thereunto.

Maxims of the Law. Preface.

Knowledge is power.

potestas est.

Nam et ipsa scientia

Meditationes Sacra. De Hæresibus.

When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you, having a large and fruitful mind, should not so much labour what to speak, as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich soils are often to be weeded.

Letter of Expostulation to Coke.

My Lord St. Albans said that nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had. ever very empty heads." Apothegm, No 17.

1 A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength. — Prov. xxiv. 5.

2 Cf. Fuller, p. 210.

"Antiquitas sæculi juventus mundi." These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.1

Advancement of Learning. Book i. (1605.)

It [Poesy] was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind.

Ibid. Book ii.

1 As in the little, so in the great world, reason will tell you that old age or antiquity is to be accounted by the farther distance from the beginning and the nearer approach to the end. The times wherein we now live being in propriety of speech the most ancient since the world's creation. George Hakewill, An Apologie or Declaration of the Power and Providence of God in the Govern ment of the World. London, 1627.

For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it? — Pascal, Preface to the Treatise on Vacuum.

We are Ancients of the earth,

And in the morning of the times.

Tennyson, The Day Dream. (L'Envoi.)

It is worthy of remark that a thought which is often quoted from Francis Bacon occurs in [Giordano] Bruno's Cena di Cenere, published in 1584; I mean the notion that the later times are more aged than the earlier. — Whewell, Philos. of the Inductive Sciences, Vol. ii. p. 198, London, 1847.

Bacon continued.]

The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.1

Ibid. Book ii.

For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next ages. From his Will.

RICHARD ALLISON.

There is a garden in her face,
Where roses and white lilies grow;
A heavenly paradise is that place,
Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow:
There cherries grow that none may buy
Till cherry ripe themselves do cry.

From An Howres Recreation in Musike, 1606.

Those cherries fairly do enclose

Of orient pearl a double row,

Which, when her lovely laughter shows,
They look like rosebuds fill'd with snow.

Ibid.

1 The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before. Adv. of Learning, ed. Dewey. Spiritalis enim virtus sacramenti ita est ut lux: etsi per immundos transeat, non inquinatur. St. Augustine, Works, Vol. 3, In Johannis Evang., Cap. 1. Tr. v. § 15. The sun reflecting upon the mud of strands and shores is unpolluted in his beam. - Taylor, Holy Living, Ch. i. Sect. 3.

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam. — Milton, The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce.

GEORGE PEELE. 1552-1598.

His golden locks time hath to silver turned;
O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing!
His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spurned,
But spurn'd in vaine; youth waneth by en-
Sonnet ad fin. Polyhymnia.

creasing.

His helmet now shall make a hive for bees, And lovers' songs be turn'd to holy psalms; A man at arms must now serve on his knees, And feed on prayers, which are old age's alms.

My merry, merry, merry roundelay

Concludes with Cupid's curse :

Ibid.

They that do change old love for new,
Pray gods, they change for worse!

Let the world slide, let the world go:

A fig for care, and a fig for woe!

If I can't pay, why I can owe,

And death makes equal the high and low.

SIR HENRY WOTTON. 1568-1639.

How happy is he born or taught,
That serveth not another's will;
Whose armour is his honest thought,
And simple truth his utmost skill!

The Character of a Happy Life.

And entertains the harmless day
With a religious book or friend.

Ibid.

Lord of himself, though not of lands;

And having nothing, yet hath all.

Ibid.

You meaner beauties of the night,
That poorly satisfy our eyes

More by your number than your light,

You common people of the skies;

What are you when the moon1 shall rise?
To his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia.

I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff. Preface to the Elements of Architecture. Hanging was the worst use man could be put to.

The Disparity between Buckingham and Essex. An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.2

1 "sun" in Reliquia Wottoniana, Eds. 1651, 1672, 1685. 2 In a letter to Velserus, 1612, Wotton says, 66 This merry definition of an Ambassador I had chanced to set down at my friend's Mr. Christopher Fleckamore, in his Album."