Note 51 — Memorial-Introduction. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Ashmore (J). Certain Selected Odes of Horace Englished, with Poems of divers Subiects translated. Whereunto are added, both in Latin and English, sundry new Epigrammes, Anagrammes, Epitaphes. 1621 sm. 4o. As this Volume is seldom to be met with, I take the opportunity of adding here the Anagram to Bacon, which does not appear to have been known to his Editors or Biographers.
To the Right Honourable, Sir Francis Bacone, Knight, Lord High Chancelor of England.
Anagr{Bacone
{ Beacon
Thy Vertuous Name and Office, joyne with Fate, To make thee the bright Beacon of the State.
I just observe, as my book passes through the Press, that Anthony a-Wood quotes (probably) above, without naming the author.