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A01185	The vvisedome of the ancients, written in Latine by the Right Honourable Sir Francis Bacon Knight, Baron of Verulam, and Lord Chancelor or England. Done into English by Sir Arthur Gorges Knight; De sapientia veterum. English	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Gorges, Arthur, Sir, 1557?-1625.	1619 (1619)	STC 1130; ESTC S100339	47,646	172

THE VVISEDOME OF THE ANCIENTS WRITTEN IN LATINE By the Right Honourable Sir FRANCIS BACON Knight Baron of Verulam and Lord Chancelor of England Done into English by Sir Arthur Gorges Knight Scutum inuincibile fides LONDON Imprinted by IOHN BILL 1619. TO THE HIGH AND ILLVSTRIOVS PRINCESSE THE LADY ELIZABETH OF GREAT BRITTAIN Duchesse of Bauiere Countesse Palatine of Rheine and chiefe Electresse of the Empire Madam AMong many the worthie Chancellors of this famous Isle there is obserued in Sir THOMAS MORE and Sir FRANCIS BACON an admirable sympathy of wit and humour witnesse those graue monuments of inuention learning wherewith the world is so plentifully enricht by them both I will instance onely in the conceaued Vtopia of the one and the reuealed Sapientia Veterum of the other Whereof the first vnder a meere Idea of perfect State gouerment containes an exact discouerie of the vanities and disorders of reall Countries And the second out of the foulds of Poeticall fables laies open those deepe Philosophicall mysteries which had beene so long lockt vp in the Casket of Antiquity so that it is hard to iudge to whether of these two worthies Policy and Morality is more behoulding I make no question therefore but this obseruation touching the parallel of their spirits shal passe so currant to succeeding ages that it will be said of thē as in former times pronounced of Xenophon Plato Fuere aequales And for this Booke that humbly present to your Highnes which so eminently expresseth its owne perfection in me it would seeme no lesse a vanity to giue it attributes of glory and praise then if I should lend Spectacles to Lynx or an Eye to Argus knowing it needles to wast guilding on pure Gould which is euer best valued by its owne true touch luster But to descend to my selfe that doe now lay before your Princely cēsure the Translation of these excellent and iudicious discourses so barely wrapt vp in my harsh English phrase that were by the Author so richly attired in a sweet Latine stile I must therein flie to the Sanctuary of your gracious acceptance In which hope securing my doubts doe with all reuerence kisse your Princely hands Remaining euer readie to approue my selfe Your Highnesse most dutifull and most deuoted Seruant Arthur Gorges To the Booke RIch mine of Art Minnion of Mercury True Truch-man of the mind of Mystery Inuentions storehouse Nymph of Helicon Deepe Moralist of Times tradition Vnto this Paragon of Brutus race Present thy seruice and with cheerefull grace Say if Pythagoras beleeu'd may bee The soule of ancient Wisedome liues in the The Table 1. CAssandra or Diuination 2. Typhon or a Rebell 3. The Cyclops or the ministers of Terror 4. Narcissus or Self-loue 5. Styx or Leagues 6. Pan or Nature 7. Perseus or Warre 8. Endymion or a Fauorite 9. The sisters of the Giants or Fame 10. Actaeon and Pentheus or a curious Man 11. Orpheus or Philosophy 12. Caelum or Beginnings 13. Proteus or Matter 14. Memnon or a Youth too forward 15. Tythonus or Satiety 16. Iuno's Sutor or Basenesse 17. Cupid or an Atome 18. Diomedes or Zeale 19. Daedalus or a Mechanique 20. Erycthoneus or Impostury 21. Deucalion or Restitution 22. Nemesis or the Vicissitude of things 23. Achelous or Battell 24. Dyonisus or Passions 25. Atalanta or Gaine 26. Prometheus or the State of Man 27. Scylla and Icarus or the Middle way 28. Sphnix or Science 29. Proserpina or Spirit 30. Metis or Counsell 31. The Sirenes or Pleasures THE PREFACE THE Antiquities of the first age except those we find in sacred Writ were buried in obliuion and silence silence was succeeded by Poeticall fables and Fables againe were followed by the Records we now enioy So that the mysteries and secrets of Antiquity were distinguished and separated from the Records and Euidences of succeeding times by the vaile of fiction which interposed it selfe and came betweene those things which perished and those things which perished and those which are extant I suppose some are of opinion that my purpose is to write toyes and trifles and to vsurpe the same liberty in applying that the Poets assumed in faining which I might doe I confesse if I listed and with more serious contemplations intermixe these things to delight either my selfe in meditation or others in reading Neither am I ignorant how fickle and inconstant a thing fiction is as being subiect to be drawen and wrested any way and how great the commoditie of wit and discourse is that is able to apply things well yet so as neuer meant by the first Authors But I remember that this liberty hath beene lately much abused in that many to purchase the reuerence of Antiquitie to their owne inuentions and fancies haue for the same intent laboured to wrest many poeticall Fables Neither hath this old and common vanity bene vsed onely of late or now and then for euen Crisippus long agoe did as an Interpreter of dreames ascribe the opinions of the Stoikes to the ancient Poets and more sottishly doe the Chymicks appropriate the fancies delights of Poets in the transformations of bodies to the experiments of their furnace All these things I say I haue sufficiently considered and weighed and in them haue seene and noted the generall leuity and indulgence of mens wits about Allegories And yet for all this I relinquish not my opinion For first it may not be that the folly and loosenesse of a few should altogither detract from the respect due to the Parables for that were a conceit which might sauour of prophanenesse and presumption for Religion it selfe doth somtimes delight in such vailes and shadowes so that who so exempts them seemes in a manner to interdict all commerce betweene things diuine and humane But concerning humane wisedome I doe indeed ingenuously and freely confesse that I am enclined to imagine that vnder some of the ancient fictions lay couched certaine mysteries and Allegories euen from their first inuention And I am perswaded whether rauished with the reuerence of Antiquity or because in some Fables I finde such singular proportion betweene the similitude and the thing signified and such apt and cleare coherence in the very structure of them and propriety of names wherewith the persons or actors in them are inscribed and intitled that no man can constantly deny but this sense was in the Authours intent and meaning when they first inuented them and that they purposely shadowed it in this sort For who can be so stupid blind in the open light as when he heares how Fame after the Gyants were destroyed sprang vp as their yongest Sister not to refer it to the murmers and seditious reports of both sides which are wont to fly abroad for a time after the suppressing of insurrections Or when he heares how the Gyant Typhon hauing cut out and brought away Iupiters nerues which Mercurie stole from him and restored againe to Iupiter doth not presently perceiue how fitly