Note 66 — ESSAYS.
Reading edition
“Who reckons the close of his life among the boons of nature.” Lord Bacon here quotes from memory; the passage is in the tenth Satire of Juvenal, and runs thus:—
“Fortem posce animum, mortis terrore carentem, Qui spatium vitæ extremum inter munera ponat Naturæ”—
“Pray for strong resolve, void of the fear of death, that reckons the closing period of life among the boons of nature.”