"Color is, when men warily and skillfully make and prepare a way for themselves, for a favorable and convenient construction of their faults or wants; as proceeding from a better cause, or intended for some other purpose than is commonly imagined." - De Augmentis, Eighth Book, Chap. II. "And that if the king should have occasion to break up his Parliament suddenly there may be more civil color to do it."-Advice Touching the Calling of Parliament. 66 Many a cruzado hath the Bishop of Rome granted to him and his predecessors upon that color, which have all been spent upon the effusion of Christian blood. And now this present year, the levies of Germans which should have been made underhand for France were colored with the pretence of war upon the Turk."- Observations on a Libel.* *("Des. Believe me, I had rather have lost my purse Full of cruzadoes."-Othello, III., 4. "and as the only means To stop effusion of our Christian blood." -I., Henry VI., V., 1.) "I have advertised him by secret means, That if, about this hour he make his way, Under the color of his usual game, He shall here find his friends, with horse and men -III., Henry VI., IV., 5. ("I would be glad to hear often from you, and to be advertised how things pass, whereby to have some occasion to think some good thoughts."-Letter to Sir John Davis. See Sonnet LXXXV.) "Q. Mar. Henry my lord is cold in great affairs, – II., Henry VI., III., 1. "So as the opinion of so great and wise a man doth seem unto me a good warrant both of the possibility and worth of this matter. .. But because there be so many good painters both for hand and colors, it needeth but encouragement and instruction to give life and light to it."-Letter to the Lord Chancellor. "Now pass to the excellencies of her person. The view of them wholly and not severally do make so sweet a wonder as I fear to divide them again. For the beauty and many graces of her presence, what colors are fine enough for such a portraiture?"—Discourse in Praise of the Queen.* ("It is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour."— Of Wisdom for a Man's Self. "Neither do you deny, honorable Lords, to acknowledge safety, profit, and power to be of the substance of policy, and fame and honor rather to be as flowers of well ordained actions than as good ends." Gesta Grayorum. "Never did base and rotten policy. Color her workings with such deadly wounds." -I., Henry IV., I., 3. "Wherein it must be confessed, that heaven was made too much to bow to earth, and religion to policy."-History of Henry VII.) These things indeed you have articulated, Proclaimed at market-crosses, read in churches, To face the garment of rebellion With some fine color that may please the eye. And never yet did insurrection want Such water-colors to impaint his cause." *Claud. Disloyal? -I., Henry IV., V., 1. - Much Ado, III., 2. D. John. The word is too good to paint out her wickedness.” "And this I shall do, my Lords, in verbis masculis; no flourishing or painted words, but such words as are fit to go before deeds."-Speech on Taking his Seat in Chancery. "Good lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean, "In few, they hurried us aboard a bark; Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared A rotten carcase of a boat, not rigg'd, Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; See the lengthy description of a ship's rigging in History of the Winds. "the very rats Instinctively have quit it;" "Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof, a depraved thing: it is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall.”—Of Wisdom for a Man's Self. "there they hoist us, To cry to the sea that roar'd to us; to sigh Mir. Was I then to you! Pros. Alack! what trouble O! a cherubim § Thou wast that did preserve me! Thou didst smile, Infused with a fortitude from heaven," Needs not the painted flourish of your praise." -L. L. L., II., 1. "Lend me the flourish of all gentle tongues,— Fie, painted rhetoric! O, she needs it not."-Id. IV., 3. *See Works, Vol. 6, p. 388; Vol. 13, pp. 68, 203; Vol. 14, p. 494. † See Works, Vol. 14, pp. 322, 437. See Works, Vol. 2, p. 390. And for a like figure: "implying as if the King slept out the sobs of his subjects, until he was awaked with the thunderbolt of a parliament."-Report of Salisbury's Answer to the Merchants. § See Works, Vol. 3, pp. 152, 296. "And it leadeth us to fortitude, for it teacheth us that we should not too much prize life which we cannot keep, nor fear death which we cannot shun; that he which dies nobly doth live forever, and he that lives in fear doth die continually; that pain and danger be great only by opinion, and that in truth nothing is fearful but fear itself.” -Advice to Rutland on his Travels.* "But to speak in a mean, the virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the more heroical virtue."-Of Adversity. "Wherein you have well expressed to the world, that there is infused in your sacred heart from God that high principle and position of government."— On Pacification and Edification of the Church. "When I have deck'd the sea with drops full salt; † Under my burden groan'd; which raised in me An undergoing stomach, to bear up Against what should ensue. "There is shaped a tale in London's forge,‡ that beat *"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Will come when it will come."-Julius Cæsar II., 3. † For another extravagant reference to tears see Works, Vol. 7, p. 141. "But now behold, In the quick forge and working-house of thought, -Henry V., V., Chorus. "Mrs. Page. Come to the forge with it then; shape it: I would not have things cool."-Mer. Wives of Wind., IV., 2. (See context.) "Here he comes: to beguile two hours in a sleep, and then to return and swear the lies he forges."—All's Well, IV., 1. eth apace at this time. That I should deliver opinion to the Queen in my Lord of Essex' cause; first, that it was praemunire; and now last, that it was high treason; and this opinion to be in opposition and encounter of the Lord Chief Justice's opinion and the Attorney-General's. My Lord, I thank God my wit serveth me not to deliver any opinion to the Queen, which my stomach serveth me not to maintain; one and the same conscience guiding and fortifying me. But the untruth of this fable God and my sovereign can witness, and there I leave it; knowing no more remedy against lies, than others do against libels."-Letter to Howard. "This wrought in the earl, as in a haughty stomach it useth to do; for the ignominy printed deeper than the grace." "And being a man of stomach and hardened by his former troubles refused to pay a mite."- History of Henry VII.t * Possibly upon another occasion, he actually handled this intricate matter, over which he had such thorough command: "So in 'King Henry VIII.' we have an equally accurate statement of the omnivorous nature of a writ of praemunire. The Duke of Suffolk, addressing Cardinal Wolsey, says: "Lord Cardinal, the King's further pleasure is, Out of the King's protection." -Lord Campbell's Shakespeare's Legal Acquirements. If the reader will consult Bacon's Works, Vol. 7, p. 741; Vol. 11, p. 270; Vol. 12, p. 388, and then read Henry VIII., III., 2, he will more clearly apprehend the complexity of this praemunire, Bacon's mastery of it, and the aptness of its application to Wolsey's ecclesiastical offences. "Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, |