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Excerpt from Bacon's Essays and Wisdom of the Ancients: With a Biographical Notice Elizabeth died in 1601; and before the arrival of James, in England, Bacon wrote him a pedantic letter, probably to gratify the taste of the pedant king; but he did not forget in it, his late dear sovereign Mistress - a princess happy in all things, but most happy in such a successor. Bacon solicited the honor of knighthood, a dis tinction much lavished at this period. At the King's coronation, he knelt down in company with above three hundred gentlemen; but he rose Sir Fran cis. He sought the hand of a rich alderman's daughter, Miss Barnham, who consented to become Lady Bacon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.