8.

Timber:  or, Discoveries; Made Vpon Men and Matter.  By Ben:  Iohnson. 
London, Printed M.DC.XLI. (pp. 101-2.)

This character is a remarkable testimony to the impression which Bacon’s restrained eloquence made on his contemporaries.  Yet it is little more than an exercise in free translation.  Jonson has pieced together two passages in the Controversies of Marcus Seneca, and placed the name of ‘Dominus Verulanus’ in the margin.  The two passages are these: 

’Non est unus, quamvis praecipuus sit, imitandus:  quia nunquam par fit imitator auctori.  Haec natura est rei.  Semper citra veritatem est similitudo.’  Lib.  I, Praefatio (ed.  Paris, 1607, p. 58).

’Oratio eius erat valens cultu, ingentibus plena sententiis.  Nemo minus passus est aliquid in actione sua otiosi esse.  Nulla pars erat, quae non sua virtute staret.  Nihil, in quo auditor sine damno aliud ageret.  Omnia intenta aliquo, petentia.  Nemo magis in sua potestate habuit audientium affectus.  Verum est quod de illo dicit Gallio noster.  Cum diceret, rerum potiebatur, adeo omnes imperata faciebant.  Cum ille voluerat, irascebantur.  Nemo non illo dicente timebat, ne desineret.’  Epit.  Declamat.  Lib.  III (p. 231).

From the continuation of the first passage Jonson took the words ‘insolent Greece’ (’insolenti Graeciae’) in his verses ’To the memory of Shakespeare’.

Jonson has left a more vivid picture of Bacon as a speaker in a short sentence of his Conversations with Drummond of Hawthornden:  ’My Lord Chancelor of England wringeth his speeches from the strings of his band.’

9.

Reign of King James the First, 1653, pp. 158-60.

Page 36, l. 18. which the King hinted at, in the King’s Speech to the Lords, 1621:  ’But because the World at this time talks so much of Bribes, I have just cause to fear the whole Body of this House hath bribed him [Prince Charles] to be a good Instrument for you upon all occasions:  He doth so good Offices in all his Reports to me, both for the House in generall, and every one of you in particular.’  The speech is given in full by Wilson before the passage on Bacon.

Page 37, l. 25.  The passage here omitted is ’The humble Submission and
Supplication of the Lord Chancellour’.

Page 38, l. 10. a good Passeover, a good passage back to Spain. 
Gondomar was Spanish ambassador.

10.

The Church-History of Britain; From the Birth of Jesus Christ, Untill the Year M.DC.XLVIII.  Endeavoured By Thomas Fuller.  London, 1655. (Bk. x, p. 89.)

11.

Resuscitatio, Or, Bringing into Publick Light Severall Pieces, of the Works, Civil, Historical, Philosophical, & Theological, Hitherto Sleeping; Of the Right Honourable Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam, Viscount Saint Alban.  According to the best Corrected Coppies.  Together, With his Lordships Life.  By William Rawley, Doctor in Divinity, His Lordships First, and Last, Chapleine.  Afterwards, Chapleine, to His late Maiesty.  London, 1657.