enough to engroſs his whole Time, he yet found ſo much Leiſure for Study, as to make himſef a great Philoſopher, a good Hiſtorian, and an elegant Writer; and a ſtill more ſurprizing Circumſtance is, that he liv'd in an Age in which the Art of writing juſtly and elegantly was little known, much leſs true Philoſophy. Lord Bacon, as is the Fate of Man, was more eſteem'd after his Death than in his Life-time. His Enemies were in the Britiſh Court, and his Admirers were Foreigners.
When the Marquis d'Effiat attended in England upon the Princeſs Henrietta Maria, Daughter to Henry the Fourth, whom King Charles the Firſt had married, that Miniſter went and viſited the Lord Bacon, who being at that Time ſick in his Bed, receiv'd him with the Curtains ſhut cloſe. You reſemble the Angels, ſays the Marquis to him; we hear thoſe Beings ſpoken of perpetually, and we believe them ſuperiour to Men, but are never allow'd the Conſolation to ſee them.
