A web-based edition of early seventeenth-century political poetry from manuscript sources. It brings into the public domain over 350 poems, many of which have never before been published.
Mii6 Heer is Francis Verulam Lord Chancelour God save him
Notes. This poem on Bacon assumes the form of an epitaph; however, it is clear that it was written before the man’s actual death, and charts rather his political demise.
Heer is Francis Verulam Lord Chancelour God save him,
What man in this kingdom durst hitherto out brave1 him
But now he is content his motto for to have it
Fransiscus de Verulam non sic cogitavit.2
Source. Folger MS V.a.345, p. 127
Other known sources. Bodleian MS Firth d.7, fol. 154r
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1 out brave: face with show of defiance; or surpass. <back>
2 Fransiscus...cogitavit: “Francis of Verulam did not think thus” (playing on the epigraph—or “motto”—to Bacon’s Novum Organum (1620): “Franciscus de Verulamio sic cogitavit”). <back>
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