LONDON: PRINTED BY

SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET

THE PROMUS

OF

FORMULARIES AND ELEGANCIES

(Being Private Notes, circ. 1594, hitherto unpublished)

BY

FRANCIS BACON

ILLUSTRATED AND ELUCIDATED BY PASSAGES FROM

SHAKESPEARE

BY

MRS HENRY POTT

WITH PREFACE BY

E. A. ABBOTT, D.D.

HEAD MASTER OF THE CITY OF LONDON SCHOOL

'Her Majesty being mightily incensed with that. . . story of the first
year of Henry IV. . . . would not be persuaded that it was his writing
whose name was to it. . . and said . . . she would have him racked to
produce his author. I replied, "Nay, Madam, rack him not . . . rack his
stile ""
(BACON's Apologia)

LONDON

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1883

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