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A72146	Of the advancement and proficience of learning; or, The partitions of sciences· Nine books. Written in Latin by the most eminent, illustrious, and famous Lord Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam, Vicount St. Alban, Councellor of Estate, and Lord Chancellor of England. Interpreted by Gilbert Watts.; De augmentis scientiarum. English	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Watts, Gilbert, d. 1657.	1640 (1640)	STC 1167.7; ESTC S124505	372,640	654

placed Last of all the scorner himselfe despiseth the knowledge which he hath learned But the matter is transacted with greater danger in the reprehension of the wicked because a wicked nature not only gives no eare to advise but turnes head against his Reprehender now made odious unto him whom he either wounds presently with contumelies or traduces afterwards to others THE PARABLE VII Prov. X. A wise Sonne is the gladnesse of his Father but a foolish Sonne is the sadnesse of his Mother THE EXPLICATION THe joyes and griefes domesticall of Father and Mother touching their Childrē are here distinguisht for a wise and well-govern'd Sonne is chiefly a comfort to the Father who knowes the value of virtue better than the Mother and therefore more rejoyceth at the towardlinesse of his Sonne inclinable to goodnesse yea and it may be his education of him that he hath brought him up so well and implanted in his tender years the Civility of manners by precepts and example is a joy unto him On the other side the Mother is more griev'd and discomforted at the calamity of a Sonne both because the affection of a Mother is more soft and tender as also perchance being conscious of hir too much indulgence she hath tainted and corrupted his tender years THE PARABLE VIII The memory of the lust is blest Prov. X. but the name of the wicked shall putrify THE EXPLICATION Here is distinguisht the Fame of good men and of evill such as cōmonly falls out after Death for the Name of good men after envy is extinguisht which cropt the blossome of their Fame while they were alive presently shootes up and flourisheth and their Praises daily encrease in strength and vigor but for wicked men though their Fame through the partiall favour of Friends and of men of their own faction last for a short time a detestation of their Name springs up and at last their transient glory exhales in infamy and expires in a filthy and noisome odor THE PARABLE IX He that troubles his own house shall inherit the winde Prov. XI THE EXPLICATION A Very profitable admonition touching Discord and Domestique Breaches Many promise to themselves great matters by the dissentions of Wives or the Disinheriting of Sonnes or the often changing of Servants as if the Tranquillity of mind or the administration of their Affaires were by this means advanced and should become more prosperous unto them But commonly their hopes turne to winde for those alterations for most part succeed ill and those Perturbers of their owne house often times meet with many vexations and ingratitudes from them whom passing by others they adopted and loved Nay by this means they draw upon their Persons ill Reports and doubtfull rumors De Pet. Consul For it is well noted of Cicero Omnem famam a Domesticis emanare Both these evills Salomon excellently expresses by the inheritance of winds for the Frustrating of Expectation and the raising of Rumors are rightly compared to Winds THE PARABLE X. Better is the end of a speech Eccles VII than the Begining thereof THE EXPLICATION THis Parable taxeth and reformes a frequent error committed not only by them which chiefly study words but even by the more wise and grave The error is this that men are more solicitous of the ingresse and entrance of their speech than of the close and issue and more exactly meditate the Exordiums and Prefaces than the conclusions of speeches But they should neither neglect those and yet have these about them as the more material parts ready prepar'd and digested considering with themselves and so farre as may be fore-casting in their minds what may be the issue of speech and conference at last and businesses thereby may be promoted and matured Yet this is not all for you must not only study Epilogues and conclusions of speeches which may be pertinent to businesse but also regard must be taken of such speeches as may aptly and pleasantly be cast in at the very instant of your departure althoe they have no reference at all to the businesse in hand I knew two Counsilors Personages of high ranke and wise men and on whom the charge of State-affaires did then principally depend whose common and to them peculiar custome it was that so often as they were to negociate with their Princes about their own affaires never to close their conference with any matter referring to that businesse but ever seek diversions either by way of jest or by somewhat that was delightfull to heare and so as the Adage renders it wash over at the conclusion of all their Sea-water discourses with fresh fountaine water And this usage was one of their chiefe Arts. THE PARABLE XI As dead Flies cause the best oyntment Eccles X. to send forth an ill Odor so doth a litle folly him that is in reputation for wisdome and honour THE EXPLICATION THe case of Men remarkable for eminent guifts is very unhappy and miserable as the Parable excellently notes because their errors be they never so small find no remission But as in a pure Diamond every least graine or litle cloud strikes the eye and affects it with a kind of trouble which upon a more grosse Diamond would hardly be discerned even so in men of eminent parts the least infirmities are presently spied talked of and more deeply censur'd which in men of more meane and obscure guifts and ranke would either altogither passe without notice or easily procure pardon Therefore a litle Folly in a very wise man and a small offence in a very honest man and a slight indecency of manners in a man of Courtly and Elegant behaviour much derogates from their fame and reputation So that it is not the worst course for eminent persons to mingle some absurdities so it may be done without guilt in their Actions that they may retaine a kind of liberty to themselves and confound the characters of smaller defects THE PARABLE XII Scornfull men insnare a Citty Prov. XXIX but Wise men divert wrath THE EXPLICATION IT may seem strange that Solomon in the description of men made as it were and by nature fram'd to the ruine and destruction of a state hath chosen the character not of a proud and insolent man not of a tyrannicall and cruell nature not of a rash and violent man not of an impious and wicked person not of a seditious and turbulent spirit not of an in continent and sensuall inclination not of a foolish and unable Person but of a Scorner But this is a judgement worthy the wisdome of that King who best knew the grounds of the conservation or eversion of a state For there is not commonly a like Plague to Kingdomes and Commonwealths than if Counsilors of Princes or Senators and such as sit at the helme of Goverment are by nature Scorners For such persons that they may win the reputation of undanted states-men doe ever extenuate the greatnesse of dangers and insult

being they are alleadged by those writers not as excogitated by them but as credited recepted before they seem to be like a fine-delicate Aire blowen up and downe by a more Ancient Nation and by derivation from them to have chanc'd into the Pipes of the Grecians to have become their Des-cant And because that whatsoever hath hetherto bin undertaken for interpretation of these Parables namely by unskilfull men not learned beyond common places give us no satisfaction at all we thought good to referre Philosophy according to ancient Parables ✿ in the number of DEFICIENTS § And we will annex an example or two of this work not that the matter perhaps is of such moment but to maintaine the purpose of our designe That is this that if any portion of these works which we report as Deficient chance to be more obscure than ordinary that we alwaise propose either Precepts or Examples for the perfecting of that work lest perchance some should imagine that our conceit hath only comprehended some light notions of them and that we like Augures only measure Countries in our mind but know not how to set one foot forward thither As for any other part defective in Poesy we find none nay rather Poesy being a plant coming as it were from the lust of a rank soile without any certain seed it hath sprung up and spread abroad above all other kind of Learning But now we will propound examples in number only three one from things Naturall one from Politicall one from Morall The first example of Philosophy according to Ancient Parables in things Naturall Of the Universe according to the Fable of Pan. IV. The Originall of Pan the Ancients leave doubtfull Hom. Hym. Herod Eut. for some say that he was the Sonne of Mercury others attribute unto him a farre different begining For they affirme that all Penelopes suitors had to doe with her and from this promiscuous Act Pan descended a common offspring to them all There is a third conceit of his birth not to be passed over for some report that he was the sonne of Iupiter and Hybris which signifies contumelie But however begotten the Parcae they say were his sisters who dwelt in a cave under ground but Pan remained in the open Aire The figure and forme Antiquity represented him by was this He had on his head a paire of Hornes riseing in a sharp acuminate to heaven his body shagged and hairie his beard very long his shape biformed above like a man below like a beast finisht with the feet of a Goat He bare these ensignes of Jurisdiction in his left hand a pipe of seaven Reeds in his right a sheepe hoock or a staffe at the upper end crooked or inflexed he was clad with a Mantle made of a Leopards skinne The dignities and offices attributed unto him were these that he was the God of Hunters of Sheepherds and of all Rurall Inhabitants Lo. President of Mountaines and next to Mercury the Embassador of the Gods Moreover he was accounted the leader and commander of the Nymphs which were alwaies wont to dance the Rounds and frisk about him his train were the Satyres and the old Sileni He had power also to strike men with terrors and those especially vaine and superstitious which are termed Panique fears Cic. Epist ad Act. l. 5. His Acts recorded are not many the chiefest was that he challenged Cupid at wrestling in which conflict he had the foile caught Typhon the Gyant in a net Claud. de R. Proser and held him fast Moreouer when Ceres being sad and vext for the Rape of Proserpina had hid her selfe and that all the Gods took paines by dispersing themselves severall wayes to find her out it was only Pans good fortune as he was hunting to light on her and to give the first intelligence where she was Ovid. Met. XI He presumed also to put it to the triall who was the better Musitian he or Apollo and by the judgement of Midas was preferred for which judgement Midas had a paire of Asses eares secretly imped to his head Of the Love-tricks of Pan there is nothing reported or at least not much a thing to be wondred at especially being among a troope of Gods so profusely amorous This also is said of him that he loved the Nymph Eccho whom he took to wife and one pretty wench more called Syrinx towards whom Cupid in an angry revengefull humour because so audaciously he had challenged him at wrestling inflamed his desire So he is reported once to have sollicited the Moon apart into the high Woods Moreover hee had no issue which is a marvell also seeing the Gods specially those of the male-kind were very Generative only he was the reputed Father of a litte Girle called Iambe that with many pretty tales was wont to make strangers merry and some thought that she was begotten of his wife Eccho The Parable seemeth to be this § Pan as the very name imports represents or layeth open the world or the world of things Concerning his Originall there are only two opinions that goe for Currant For either he came of Mercury that is the Word of God which the holy Scriptures without all Controversy affirme and the Philosophers such as were the more Divine saw or else from the confused seeds of things For some of the Philosophers held that the Seeds and Principles of Nature were even in the substance infinite hence the opinion of Similary Parts primordiall was brought in Laert. in Anaxag which Anaxagoras either invented or celebrated Some more acutely and soberly think it sufficient to salve the variety of Nature if seeds the same in substance be only diversified in forme and figure certaine and definite Laerr in vitis eorū and placed the rest in the inclosure and bosome of the seeds From this spring the opinion of Atomes is derived which Democritus maintain'd and Leucippus found out But others though they affirm only one Principle of Nature Thales water Anaximenes Air Laert. in vitis Heraclitus Fire yet they have defined that Principle which is one in Act to be various and dispensible in power as that wherein the seeds of all naturall essences lie hidden They who have introduced the first Matter every way disarayed Jn Timaeo and unformed and in different to any forme as Plato and Aristotle did came to a farre nearer phys I. and naturall resemblance of the Figure of the Parable For they conceiv'd the Matter as a common Courtezan and the Forms as Suitors So as all the Opinions touching the beginnings of things come to this point and may be reduc'd to this distribution that the world took beginning either from Mercury or from Penelope and all hir Suitors The third conceit of Pans Originall is such as it seemes that the Grecians either by intercourse with the Aegyptians or one way or other had heard something of the Hebrew mysteries For it points to

thereof the Fable propounds three grave and wholsome Precepts The first is that a Prince doe not much trouble himselfe about the conquest of neighbour Nations nor is the way of enlarging a Patrimony and an Empiry the same for in the augmentation of private possissions the vicinity of Territories is to be considered but in the amplification of publique Dominions the occasion and facility of makeing warre and the fruit to be expected ought to be instead of propinquity Therefore Perseus though an Easterne Prince makes the expedition of his warre a farre off even in the remotest parts of the Westerne World Plut. in Alex Id. de Fort. Alex. There is a notable president of this Case in the different manner of warring practised by two Kings the Father and the Sonne Philip and Alexander For Philip warred upon Borderers only and added to the Empire some few Citties and that not without great contention and danger who many times but especially in a Theban warre was brought into extreme hazard But Alexander carried the Actions of his warre a farre off and with a prosperous boldnesse undertook an expedition against the Persian conquered infinite Nations tired rather with travile than warre This point is farther cleered in the propagation of the Roman Empire what time their conquests towards the West scarce reacht beyond Liguria did yet in the East bring all the provinces as farre as the mountaine Taurus within the compasse of their Armes and command Hist Fran. Serres alii So Charles the eight King of France finding the warre of Brittaine which afterward was compounded by marriage not so feasable pursued his enterprise upon Naples which he accomplisht with wonderfull facility and felicity Certainly warres made upon Nations farre off have this advantage that they are to fight with those who are not practised in the discipline and Armes of the Aggressor but in a warre made upon Borderers the case is otherwise Besides the preparation for such an expedition is commonly better appointed and the terror to the enemy from such a bold and confident enterprise the greater Neither can there usually be made by the enimy to whom the warre is brought so farre off any retaliation or reciprocall invasion which in a warre upon borderers often falls out But the chief point is that in subdueing a neighbour state the election of advantages is brought to a straight but in a forraigne expedition a man may turne the race of the warre at pleasure thether where military discipline is most weakned or the strength of the Nation much wasted and worne or Civile discords are seasonably on foot or such like opportunities present themselves Cic. 1. de Off. Bacon de jure Belli cont Hisp § The second precept is that the motives of warre be just and Religious and Honourable and Plausible for that begets alacrity as well in the Souldiers that fight as in the people that afford pay it drawes on and procureth aides and hath many other advantages besides Amongst the just grounds of warre that is most favorable which is undertaken for the extirpation of Tyrans under whom the people loose their courage and are cast downe without heart and vigor as in the sight of Medusa which kind of heroick Acts Ovid. Met. IX Sandisii Comment procured Hercules a divinity amongst the Gods certainly it was a point of Religion amongst the Romans with valour and speed to aid and succour their confederates and allies that were any way distressed So just vindictive warres have for most part bin prosperous so the warre against Brutus and Cassius Tacit. for the revenge of Caesars death Herodian c. of Severus for the death of Pertinax of Junius Brutus for the revenge of the death of Lucretia and in a word whosoever relieve and revenge the calamities and injuries of men beare arms under Perseus § The third precept is that in the undertaking of any warre Fra. Bacon ut supra a true estimate of the forces be taken and that it be rightly waighed whether the enterprise may be compast and accomplisht lest vast and endlesse designes be pursued For amongst the Gorgons by which warre is represented Perseus wisely undertook hir only that was mortall and did not set his mind upon impossibilities Thus farre the fable instructs touching those things that fall in deliberation about the undertakeing of a warre the rest pertaine to the warre it selfe § In warre those three guifts of the Gods doe most availe so as commonly they governe and lead fortune after them for Perseus received speed from Mercury concealing of his Counsils from Orcus and Providence from Pallas Neither is it without an Allegorie and that most prudent that those wings of speed in dispatch of affaires for quicknesse in warre is of speciall importance were fastned unto his heeles and not unto his Arme-holes to his feet and not to his shoulders because celerity is required not so much in the first aggressions and preparations as in the pursuit and the sucours that second the first assaults for there is no errors in warre more frequent than that prosequution and subsidiary forces fiale to answer the alacrity cf the first onsets Now the Helmet of Pluto which hath power to make men invisible is plaine in the Morall for the secreting of Counsils next to Celerity is of great moment in warre wherof Celerity it selfe is a great part for speed prevents the disclosure of Counsils It pertains to Pluto's Helmet that there be one generall of the Army in warre invested with absolute authority for consultations communicated with many partake more of the Plumes of Mars than of the Helmet of Pluto To the same purpose are various Pretensions and doubtfull designations and emissary reports which either cast a cloud over mens eyes or turne them another way and place the true aimes of Counsils in the darke for diligent and diffident Cautions touching letters Ambassadors Rebells and many such like Provisoes adorne and begirt the Helmet of Pluto But it importeth no lesse to discover the Counsils of the enemy than to conceale their owne wherefore to the Helmet of Pluto we must joyne the Looking-glasse of Pallas whereby the strength the weaknesse the secret abettors the divisions and factions the proceedings and Counsils of the enemy may be discerned and disclosed And because the casualties of warre are such as we must not put too much confidence either in the concealeing our own designes or the dissecreting the designes of the enimy or in celerity it selfe we must especially take the shield of Pallas that is of Providence that so as litle as may be be left to fortune Hetherto belong the sending out of espialls the fortification of camps which in the Military discipline of this latter age is almost grown out of use for the camps of the Romans were strengthened as if it had bin a Citty against all adverse events of warre a setled and well ordered Army not trusting too much to the