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Show The Life of rhe Honourable Author. f efPallas. Neither did tbe want of Children , detrdf! from l J · d1t,rage ofhiJ Confort, d1tring the Intermarnage ' }t.! goo ~y ,., . II dR whom he profecuted, with.nnech Con Juga Love~ a.n e-f1 eet; with 11.1any Rich Gtfts, and Endow~ents, befdes a loab ofHonour, n:hich he invefiecl herwzthall ; whzeh jhe e Untill her Dyincr Da"'; Being tn:enty year!, and more1 wor, o ./ after his Death. . . . . . 11Jc laft .ft~Ye years ofh is Ltfe_ _, bet~~ wtth-drawn front Ct-vill Affaires, and from~n Ach~e Ltfe, he_employed whol~, · Contetnplarion and Studtes. A Thuzg, whereof hu ~o rdfi1:p would oft;n Jpeak__, during his ~Cl:ive _Life; A~ if he affeEted,to dye in the Shadow)and not 1n the ~tght; whub alfo, may be found, in fever all f aJJages, of In~ Works. In wloich time, he compofed, t!Je greatrft P ~rt, ofbz~ Boo~s, and Writings; Botb in Engltfi1, andLattn: Whzc~ I wtll enumerate,( a1 near aJ lcan.,)in the 'ujl Orde~;wheretnthey were written. The Hifiory, oft he Retgn, ofKtng Henry, th~ Seveltlth: A beceda.rium Natur~ ; or A Meta phyficall Ptece; which is loft ·. Hiftoria Vento.rum : Hiftor.ia vi t~ ~ Mo~ .. tis: Hiftoria Denfi, & Ran, not yet !rznted: Htfiona Gravis, & Levis,which iJ alfo lofi: .A 0t{c0tufe, of a W~r, witb Spain: A Dialogue, touching an Holy ~ar: 1be Fable of the New Atlantis: A Preface, to a D1geft, of the La we~ ofEngland : 1he Beg~nning, of the Hifiory ~ oftl:e Reign, ofKing Henry, the Etghth : De.Augmc~tts Sclentiarum; Or the Advancement ofLearntng, put uzto Latin, -with fever aU Enrichments, antl Enlargements : Cou.~fells Civil1 andMorall; Or hiJ Book ofE·ffayes, li~wije, Enriched, :nd enlarged: The Conver.fion_, of cert~in Pfahns, into Englifh Verfe. The Tranflatton tnto Latin ; ofr1~e . Hifiory, ofKin~ Henry the S~venth; oft he Connfells,Ct- ! vil1, and Morall ; of the Dta!ogne, of the Ho]y ~ar; ! oft he Fable, of the New AtlaDtts ; For the Bene_(zt9 of., otber l Nations. HiJ ReviflHg, ofhiJ Book, De Saptc~tl.a V~- ~ terum· Inquifitio de Ma~nete ; To pica~ nqu1fittonts, de Luce & Lumine ; Both thefe, not yet Prtnted.· Laftly, Sylva s;lvarum, or the Naturall hlifi:ory. Tbefe were .the Fnuts, The Life ot the Hotlourable Author. --~---- Fruits, and Productions; of his lafl.five y:ear 1. HiJ Lordfhip alfo defignecl,upon tbe Motio,n, and Invitation, of I:JiJ late MajeH:y; To have writtent.he Reign, ojl(ing Eienry, the Eighth; But that Work Perijhed, in the Defignation) meerly; God not lending him Life, to proceed furth er upon it, then onely, in one Morni1rg.r Wor~: Whereof there is Extant, An, Ex Ungne Leonem, already Printed, in TJis Lordfuips Mifcellany Works. There i1 a C ommemeration due; .AJ well, to hiJ AbilitieJ, and YertueJ, aJ to the Courfe, of hi-s Life. Thofe Abilittcs, which, commonly, goe Ji11gle, in other Me11, thm1gh of prime, a11d Obfervable, Parts, n·ere all co1~oyned, and met, inllim. Thofo are, Sharpner of Wit, Men1ory, Judgement, and Elocution. For the Former Three, his Books doe abwzdantly Jpeak)bem ; which, witb what Sufficiency he wrote, ' let the World judge; But with what Celerity he wrote them, 1 ., I eau b1t te~ijie. But for tbe Fourth, hiJ Elocution ; I will onely Jet down, what I beard, Sir Walter Rauleigh, once Jpeaftofhim, hy way ofComparif01t; ( whofe Judgement may well be truftee;l;) That the Earl of Salisbury, was a-n ex~ cellent Speaker, but no good Pen-man; That the Ear] of NorthampttJn, (the Lord Henry Howard,) ·was an excellent Pen-man, but no g9od Speaker; But that, Sir FranciJ Bacon, was Eminent in ~oth. I harpe .beerl enduced to thin/t; That ·if there were, a Bean1e of 1\n<?wJeqge, derived fr(}m God, upon any Man, in thefe Modern Times, it wa.r upoll Him. For thougb he was a great Reader of Books ; yet he had , not hiJ Kazowledge fronJ Books ; But frtJm_{ome Gro.unds, and Notion~, from within Himfelf. Which, not'1Vith· (i:anding, he vented, with great Caution, and Circum. fpection. Hi.r Book, of Infiauratio Magna, ( whicb, ., in IJiJ own Account, waJ the chieftft, ofhiJ works,) waJ no · Slight Imagination, or Fancy, ofbi.r Brain; B1tt a Setled, andC.oncotl:ed, Notion; The Produaion, ofmany year.r, Labour, and Travel]. I my Self, have feen, attbeleaft, Twelve Coppies, of the Infia~ration ; Revifed, year by (c) year |