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IV. To the work will be prefixed a Life of Lord Bacon, and an examination of his Writings, Portraits, Fac-similes, &c.

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PREFACE.

THIS Volume contains

1. The Essays.

2. Meditationes Sacræ.

3. The Colours of Good and Evil.

4. Miscellaneous Tracts upon Human Philosophy.

1. In Praise of Knowledge.

2. Valerius Terminus, or the Interpretation

§ 1.

THE ESSAYS.

The first edition of the Essays was published in

the year 1597. It is entitled *

"Essayes.

"Religious Meditations.

"Places of perswasion and

"disswasion.

"Seene and allowed.

"AT LONDON,

" Printed for Humfrey Hooper, and are
"to be sold at the blacke Beare

" in Chauncery Lane.

" 1597."

THE EPISTLE DEDICATORIE.

"To M. Anthony Bacon his deare Brother. "Louing and beloued brother I do now like some that haue an Orcharde il neighbored, that "gather their fruit before it is ripe, to preuent " stealing. These fragments of my conceits were "going to print: To labour the stay of them had " bene troublesome, and subiect to interpretation : " to let them passe had bin to aduentur the wrong " they mought receiue by vntrue Coppies, or by some " garnishment which it mought please any one that "shold set them forth to bestow upon them. There"fore I helde it best discretion to publish them my " selfe as they passed long agoe from my pen with" out any further disgrace, then the weakenes of the

* There is a copy of this edition at Cambridge, and in the

Bodelan.