Excerpt from The Essayes or Counsels, CIVILL and Morall, of Francis Bacon, Lo, Verulam, Viscount St. Alban Eir fruit before it is ripe, to preuent stealing. These fragments of my conceites were going to print, To labour the staie of them had bin trou blesome, and subiect to interpretation; to let them passe had beene to aduenture the wrong they mought receiue by vntrue coppies, or by some garnishment, which it mought please any that should set them forth to bestow vpon them. There fore I helde it best as they passed long agoe from my pen, without any further disgrace, then the weaknesse of the Author. And as I 'did euer held, there mought be as great a vanitie in retiring and withdrawing mens conceites (except they bee of some nature) from 'the world, as in obtruding them So in these particulars I haue played my self the Inquisitor, and find nothing to my vnder standing in them contrarie or infectious to the. 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.