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Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients

Note 61 — ESSAYS.

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This was said as a reproof to his flatterers, and in spirit is not unlike the rebuke administered by Canute to his retinue.—Suet. Vespas. Vit. c. 23.

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