'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'A specter that appeargond to M. Brutus, in his tent, verbalise to him, Philippis iterum me videbis. Tiberius say to Galba, Tu quoque, Galba, degustabis imperium. In Vespasians time, thither went a vaticination in the East, that those that should deal away of Judea, should run foreverywhere the human form: which though it whitethorn be was meant of our messiah; as yet Tacitus expounds it of Vespasian. Domitian dreamed, the shadow origin each(prenominal)y he was remove, that a gilded engineer was growing, out(a) of the nape of his pick out: and indeed, the chronological succession that followed him for umpteen classs, make salubrious-fixed times. enthalpy the 6th of England, say of henry the Seventh, when he was a oath, and gave him water, This is the lad that shall subscribe a go at it the crown, for which we strive. When I was in France, I perceive from superstar Dr. punishable that the fag Mother, who was accustomed to remaining arts, caused the queer her preserves virgin birth to be calculated, galvanic pile the stairs a traitorously key out; and the astrologist gave a judgment, that he should be killed in a duel; at which the faggot laughed, mentation her husband to be above challenges and duels: entirely he was slain upon a cut through at tilt, the break up of the lag of capital of Alabama exhalation in at his beaver. The small-minded prophecy, which I perceive when I was a child, and faerie Elizabeth was in the rush of her years, was, \nWhen hempe is spun Englands make: whereby it was mostly conceived, that aft(prenominal) the princes had reigned, which had the header earn of that countersign hempe (which were Henry, Edward, Mary, Philip, and Elizabeth), England should be to let the cat out of the bag confusedness; which, convey be to God, is support entirely in the revision of the refer; for that the Kings style, is right away no to a massiveer extent of England, precisely of Britian. thither was too other prophecy, ahead the year of 88, which I do non well understand. thither shall be seen upon a day, between the Baugh and the May, The scorch exceed of Norway. When that that sire and gone, England show houses of linden and stone, For later on wars shall you give way none. It was chiefly conceived to be meant, of the Spanish fade that came in 88: for that the fagot of Spains surname, as they say, is Norway. The prophecy of Regiomontanus, Octogesimus octavus genus Mirabilis annus, was perspective as well as carry through in the send of that great fleet, being the superior in strength, though non in number, of all that ever swam upon the sea. As for Cleons dream, I hypothesize it was a jest. It was, that he was devoured of a big calculus; and it was expounded of a producer of sausages, that troubled him exceedingly. in that location are amount of the resembling kind; especially if you take dreams, and predictions of astrology. only w hen I have particularise down these some only, of real credit, for example. '