Francis Bacon's Cryptic Rhymes And the Truth They Reveal:
Francis Bacon's Cryptic Rhymes And the Truth They Reveal:
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Cineas asked him; Sir, what will you do then? Then (saith he) we will attempt Sicily, Cineas said ; Well, Sir, what then ? Then (saith Fyrrhus) if the Gods favour ms, we may conquer Af rick and Carthage. What then, Sir ? saith Cineas. Nay then (saith Pyrrhus) we may take our rest, and sacrifice Siad/east every day^ and make merry with our friends. Alas^ Sir, (said Cineas), may we not do so now, without all this ado ? But we cannot too often remind the reader, that these verses are *' curiously ..." (secretly, cautiously) rhymed. No smooth, evenly flowing metre, no set form of stanza could express that which a poet and rhetorician of the first water, if not the greatest that ever lived or breathed, here recounts in an easy, off-hand manner. He begins by little more than suggesting a rhyme of a light kind here and there, till the pathetic words of the vain king set in : " Then H Digitized by VjOOQIC 114 FRANCIS BACQN^S CRYPTIC RHYMES (saith Pyrrhus) if the Gods favour us/' and the questions of the statesman becoming shorter, lead up to the '* Nay/' expressing astonishment, terminating in a long line rhyming to the previous and following onea.
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