Huc elegantem V. C L. Domini Verulamij agudiar adijcere adlubuit. The world's a bubble, and the life of man Who then to fraile mortality shall trust, Yet since with sorrow here we liue opprest: what life is best? Courts are but only superficiall scholes to dandle fooles. The rurall parts are turn'd into a den of sauage men. And where's a city from all vice so free, But may be term'd the worst of all the three! Domesticke cares afflict the husband's bed, or paines his head. Those that liue single take it for a curse, or doe things worse. Some would haue children, those that haue them, mone or wish them gone. What is it then to haue or haue no wife, But single thraldome, or a double strife? Our owne affections still at home to please, is a disease, To crosse the sea to any foreine soyle, perills and toyle. Warres with their noyse affright vs: when they cease, W' are worse in peace. What then remains? but that we still should cry, Not to be borne, or being borne to dye. Quam wagydíar è nostrati boná nos Græcam qualemcunq; sic fecimus, & rhythmicè. Κόσμος πομφολυγηρός, ἀνὴρ τάλας, ἀνδρὸς ὁ αἴων Σχέτλιος ὤν δε κύημ', ἀπὸ γαστέρος ὠμοτόκοιο, Χ' οὕτως μέχρι τάφοιο. Σπαργανίων παρ' ἐπάρατος, ἐν στυγερδισι γόοισι Τρεφθεὶς, ἐν τε φόβοισι. Ος τ ̓ οῦν τῶ θνητῶ ψαθυρῶ πίστιν παραθήσει Τ Εἰς ὕδωρ γράψει, κούφω κονίω τ ̓ ὑποχρήσει. Αλλ' ὅτι οὖν τάλανες καὶ δϊζυροὶ ἔνθα βιῶμεν, Γυμνάσιον πέλεται φλυάρου ληρώδεος αὐλὴ Καὶ μωροτρόφος αὐγή. Χωρία καὶ ἄγροι σπέος ἀνδρῶν εἰσὶν ἀγρόικων Ωμοφρόνων τε μετοικῶν. Τῶν δὲ τριῶν ζητῶν ἑυρήσεις ἄστυ κάκιστον Μηστὸν ἀτασθαλίας, ἄδικον, δολερὸν κ ̓ ἀθέμιστον. Τὴν γαμικὴν ἐυνὴν δικῖια μέριμνα βιάζει, Η κεφαλὴν ἀνιάζει. Οι μὲν τῆμα πάθον ̓ ἀγάμητοι κηδιάνειρον, Τέκνα, πόνοι πήρωσις, ἅπαις βίος. ἔνθ ̓ ὀλοφυρμός, Αλλο τὶ οὖν γαμικὸς βίος είχεν ἀπειρόγαμός τε, Οἴκοι ἀεὶ μειναι πολλοῖς νόσον ώρσε βαρείαν, Καὶ δακέθυμον ἀνίαν. Νωθ ̓ ἀλὸς ὑγρὰ ταμέιν, λείποντα πάτρης πολίεθρον Κίνδυνος ἐστ ̓ ἐπ ̓ ὄλεθρον. Εκπλήττει πολέμοιο βοή· αυτ ̓ ἐν εἰρήνῃ Δεινοτέρ ̓ ἐστὶ γαλήνη. Ην ἄρα τοῖν δυοῖν ἑνὸς ἁίρεσις, ἢ τὸ γενέσθαι Μηδέποι, ἤτοι αυτίκα τικλόμενον θανέεσθαι. There In March, 1622-3, Bacon returned to his old lodgings in Gray's Inn, and the death of Mr. Murray, provost of Eton, happening soon afterwards, he applied to the King for the vacant provostship, as a cell to retire into, not doubting that he should make both the college and school to flourish. will hardly fall,' said he, ' especially in the spent hour-glass of my life, anything so fit for me, being a retreat to a place of study so near London, and where (if I sell my house at Gorhambury, as I purpose to do, to put myself in some convenient plenty,) I may be accommodate of a dwelling for summer-time.'* The provostship, however, though promised to sir William Becher by Buckingham, was given to sir Henry Wotton, who had, says good Isaac Walton, for many years rolled the restless stone of a state employment. † • Bacon's Works, vol. 12, p. 440, 443. + Walton's Life of Wotton, prefixed to the Reliquia Wottoniana, and printed in Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Biography, vol. 5, pp. 3–67. |