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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

there was no iust cause of anger the deed being pious and famous secretly incens't the Cyclopes against him who without delay slew him with a thunderboult In reuenge of which act Apollo Iupiter not prohibiting it shotte them to death with his arrowes This Fable may be applyed to the proiects of Kings who hauing cruell bloudy exacting Officers do first punish and displace them afterwards by the counsell of Tellus that is of some base and ignoble person and by the preuayling respect of profite they admit them into their places againe that they may haue instruments in a readynes if at any time there should need either seuerity of execution or acerbity of exaction These seruile creatures being by nature cruell and by their former fortune exasperated and perceiuing well what is expected at their hands doe shew themselues wonderfull officious in such kinde of imployments but being too rash and precipitate in seeking countenance and creeping into fauour doe somtimes take occasion from the secret becknings and ambiguous commandes of their Prince to performe some hatefull execution But Princes abhorring the fact and knowing well that they shall neuer want such kind of instruments doe vtterly forsake them turning them ouer to the friends allyes of the wronged to their accusations and reuenge and to the generall hatred of the people so that with great applause and prosperous wishes and exclamations towards the Prince they are brought rather too late then vndeseruedly to a miserable end 4 NARCISSVS or Selfe-loue THey say that Narcissus was exceeding faire and beautifull but wonderfull proud and disdainfull wherefore dispising all others in respect of himselfe hee leades a solitary life in the woods and chases with a few followers to whom hee alone was all in all among the rest there aboue like a man below like a beast his feet like Goates hoofes bearing these ensignes of his iurisdiction to wit in his left hand a Pipe of seauen reeds and in his right a sheephooke or a staffe crooked at the vpper end and his mantle made of a Leopards skinne His dignities and offices were these hee was the God of Hunters of Shepheards and of all rurall inhabitants cheefe president also of hils and mountaines next to Mercury the Embassadour of the Gods Moreouer hee was accounted the leader and comaunder of the Nymphes which were alwaies wont to dance the rounds and friske about him hee was acosted by the Satyres and the olde Sileni Hee had power also to strike men with terrors and those especially vaine superstitious which are tearmed Panicque feares His acts were not many for ought that can bee found in records the cheefest was that hee challenged Cupid at wrestling in which conflict hee had the foile The tale goes too that hee caught the Giant Typhon in a net and held him fast Moreouer when Ceres grumling and chafing that Proserpina was rauished had hid her selfe away and that all the Gods tooke pains by dispersing themselues into euery corner to find her out it was onely his good hap as hee was hunting to light on her and acquaint the rest where she was He presumed also to put it to the tryall who was the better Musitian hee or Apollo and by the iudgment of Midas was indeed preferred But the wise iudge had a paire of Asses eares priuily chopt to his Nodle for his sentence Of his louetrickes there is nothing reported or at least not much a thing to be wondred at especially being among a troope of Gods so profusly amorous This onely is said of him that hee loued the Nymph Eccho whom he tooke to wyfe and one pretty wench more called Syrinx towards whom Cupid in an angry and reuengefull humor because so audaciously hee had challenged him at wrestling inflamed his desire Moreouer hee had no issue which is a maruell also seeing the Gods especially those of the Malekind were very generatiue onely hee was the reputed father of a litle Girle called lambe that with many pretty tales was wont to make strangers merry but some thinke hee did indeed beget her by his wife lambe This if any bee is a noble tale as being laid out and bigg bellied with the secrets and mysteries of nature Pan as his name imports represents and lays open the All of things or Nature Concerning his originall there are two onely opinions that goe for currant for either hee came of Mercury that is the word of God which the holy Scriptures without all controuersie affirme such of the Philosophers as had any smacke of diuinity assented vnto or els from the confused seedes of things For they that would haue one simple beginning referre it vnto God or if a materiate beginning they would haue it various in power So that wee may end the controuersie with this distribution that the world tooke beginning either from Mercury or from the seeds of all things Virg. Eolog 6. Namque canebat vti magnum per inane coacta Semina terrarumque animaeque marisque fuissent Et liquidi simulignis his exordia primis Omnia ipse tener mundi concreuerit Orbis For rich-vaind Orpheus sweetly did rehearse How that the seeds of fire ayre water earth Were all pact in the vast void vniuerse And how from these all firstlings all had birth And how the bodie of this Orbicque frame From tender infancy so bigg became But as touching the third conceipt of Pans originall it seemes that the Grecians either by intercourse with the Egyptians or one way or other had heard something of the Hebrew mysteries for it points to the state of the world not considered in immediate creation but after the fall of Adam exposed and made subiect to death and corruption for in that state it was and remains to this day the ofspring of God and Sinne. And therefore all these three narrations concerning the manner of Pans birth may seeme to bee true if it bee rightly distinguished betweene things and times For this Pan or nature which wee suspect contemplate and reuerence more then is fit tooke beginning from the word of God by the meanes of confused matter and the entrance of preuarication and corruption The Destinies may well be thought the Sisters of Pan or Nature because the beginnings and continuances and corruptions and depressions and dissolutions and eminences and labours and felicities of things and all the chances which can happen vnto any thing are linckt with the chaines of causes naturall Hornes are attributed vnto him because Hornes are broad at the roote and sharpe at the ends the nature of all things being like a Pyramis sharpe at the Toppe For indiuiduall or singular things being infinite are first collected into Species which are many also then from Species into generals and from generals by ascending are contracted into things or notions more generall so that at length Nature may seeme to be contracted into a vnity Neither is it to be wondred at that Pan toucheth heauen with his hornes

pious then the suppressing of Tyrāny vnder which yoake the people loose there courage and are cast downe without heart vigor as in the sight of Medusa Thirdly it is wisely added that seeing there were three Gorgons by which Wars are represented Perseus vndertooke her onely that was mortal that is hee made choice of such a kind of War as was likely to bee effected and brought to a period not pursuing vast and endles hopes The furnishing of Perseus with necessaries was that which only aduanced his attempt drew fortune to bee of his side For hee had speed from Mercury concealing of his counsels from Orcus and Prouidence from Pallas Neither is it without an Allegory and that ful of matter to that those wings of celerity were fastned to Perseus his heeles and not to his anckles to his feet and not to his shoulders because speed and celerity is required not so much in the first preparationes for Warre as in those things which second yeeld ayd to the first for there is no error in Warre more frequent then that prosecutions and subsidiary forces doe faile to answer the alacrity of the first onsets Now for that helmet which Pluto gaue him powerful to make men inuisible the moral is plaine But that two-fould guift of prouidence to wit the sheild looking glasse is ful of morality for that kind of prouidēce which like a sheild auoids the force of blows is not alone needfull but that also by which the strength and motions and councels of the enemy are descried as in the looking glasse of Pallas But Perseus albeit he were sufficiently furnished with aid and courage yet was hee to doe one thing of speciall importance before hee entred the lists with this Monster that was to haue some intelligence with the Greae These Greae are treasōs which may be termed the Sisters of Warre not descended of the same stocke but farre vnlike in nobility of birth for Warres are generall and heroicall but Treasons are base and ignoble Their description is elegant for they are said to bee grayheaded and like old women from their birth by reason that Traitors are continually vext with cares and trepidations But all their strength before they breake out 8 ENDYMION or a Fauorite IT is saide that Luna was in loue with the Shepheard Endymion and in a strange and vnwonted manner bewrayed her affection for he lying in a Caue framed by nature vnder the mountaine Latmus shee oftentimes descended from her sphere to enioy his companie as he slept and after shee had kissed him ascended vp againe Yet notwithstanding this his idlenes and sleepie security did not any way impaire his estate or fortune for Luna brought it so to passe that hee alone of all the rest of the Shepheards had his flocke in best plight and most fruitfull This Fable may haue reference to the nature and disposition of Princes for they beeing full of doubts and prone to iealousie doe not easily acquaint men of prying and curious eyes and as it were of vigilant and wakefull dispositions with the secret humours and manners of their life but such rather as are of quiet and obseruant natures suffering them to doe what they list without further scanning making as if they were ignorant and perceiuing nothing but of a stupid disposition and possest with sleepe yeelding vnto them simple obedience rather then slie complements for it pleaseth Princes now and then to descend from their thrones of Maiestie like Luna from the superiour orbe and laying aside their Robes of dignity which alwaies to bee cumbred with would seeme a kinde of burthen familiarly to conuerse with men of this condition which they thinke may bee done without danger a quality chiefly noted in Tiberius Caesar who of all others was a Prince most seuere yet such onely were gracious in his fauour as being well acquainted with his disposition did yet constantly dissemble as if they knew nothing This was the custome also of Lewis the eleuenth king of France a cautious and wily Prince Neither is it without elegancy that the caue of Endymion is mentioned in the Fable because it is a thing vsuall with such as are the fauorites of Princes to haue certaine pleasant retyring places whither to inuite them for recreation both of body and mind and that without hurt or preiudice to their fortunes also And indeed these kind of fauorites are men commonly well to passe for Princes although peraduenture they promote them not euer to places of honour yet doe they aduance them sufficiently by their favour and countenance neither doe they affect them thus onely to serue their owne turne but are wont to enrich them now and then with great dignities and bounties 9. THE SISTER OF THE GYANTS or Fame IT is a Poeticall relation that the Gyants begotten of the Earth made warre vpon Iupiter and the other Gods and by the force of lightning they were resisted ouerthrowne Whereat the Earth being excitated to wrath in reuenge of her children brought forth Fame the youngest Sister of the Gyants Illam terra parens ira irritata Deorum Extremam vt perhibent Caeo Enceladoque sororem Progenuit Prouok't by wrothfull Gods the mother Earth Giues Fame the Gyants yongest sister birth The meaning of the Fable seemes to bee thus By the Earth is signified the nature of the vulgar alwaies swolne and malignant and still broaching new scandals against superiors and hauing gotten fit oportunity stirres vp rebels and seditious persons that with impious courage doe molest Princes and endeuour to subuert their estates but being supprest the same naturall disposition of the people stil leaning to the viler sort being impatient of peace and tranquility spread rumors raise malitious slanders repining whisperings infamous libelles and others of that kind to the detraction of them that are in authority So as rebellious actions and seditious reports differ nothing in kind and blood but as it were in Sex onely the one sort being Masculine the other Feminine 10. ACTAEON and PENTHEVS or a curious Man THe curiosity of Men in prying into secrets and coueting with an indiscreet desire to atteine the knowledge of things forbidden is set forth by the Ancients in two examples the one of Actaeon the other of Pentheus Actaeon hauing vnawares and as it were by chance beheld Diana naked was turned into a Stag and deuoured by his owne Dogges And Pentheus climing vp into a tree with a desire to bee a spectator of the hidden sacrifices of Bacchus was strucken with such a kind of frensie as that whatsoeuer he look't vpon he thought it alwaies double supposing among other things he saw two Sunnes and two Thebes insomuch that running towards Thebes spying another Thebes instantly turned back againe and so kept stil running forward and backward with perpetuall vnrest Eumenidum veluti demens videt agmina Pentheus Et Solem geminum duplices se ostendere Thebas Pentheus amaz'd doth troops of furies spie And