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
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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
Author
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
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London :: Imprinted by Iohn Bill,
1619.
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Mythology, Classical -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01185.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.
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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 & ouer∣throwne.
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 De∣orum.Extremam (vt perhibent) Caeo En∣celadoque
sororem,Progenuit.—
Prouok't by wrothfull Gods the
mother EarthGiues Fame the Gyants yongest
sister birth.
The meaning of the Fable seemes
to bee thus, By the Earth is signi∣fied
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the nature of the vulgar, alwaies
swolne and malignant, and still broa∣ching
new scandals against supe∣riors,
and hauing gotten fit opor∣tunity,
stirres vp rebels, and sedi∣tious
persons, that with impious
courage doe molest Princes, and
endeuour to subuert their estates:
but being supprest, the same natu∣rall
disposition of the people stil lea∣ning
to the viler sort, (being impa∣tient
of peace and tranquility)
spread rumors, raise malitious slan∣ders,
repining whisperings, in∣famous
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 Fe∣minine.
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