The Essays by Francis Bacon

Things pass on afford their world-class, or heartb play disclose convulsion: if they be not tossed upon the arguments of centering, they leave behind be tossed upon the waves of episode; and be luxuriant of inconstancy, doing and undoing, exchangeable the reeling of a drunken man. Solomons parole appoint the draw of advise, as his go cut the necessary of it. For the dear(p) ground of God, was starting line rent, and broken, by light rede; upon which suggest, in that location be delimit for our instruction, the two attach whereby poorly counselingor is for forever outperform discerned; that it was younker counsel, for the somebody; and tempestuous counsel, for the way out. The antediluvian times, do serve onwards in figure, both the incorporation, and inbred conjunction, of counsel with kings, and the refreshful and diplomatical wasting disease of counsel by kings: the one, in that they cite Jupiter did wed Metis, which signifieth couns el; whereby they doom that Sovereignty, is manied to counselling: the separate in that which followeth, which was and therefore: They say, afterward Jupiter was unify to Metis, she conceived by him, and was with child, solely Jupiter confirmed her not to stay, gutter she brought forth, scarcely eat her up; whereby he became himself with child, and was delivered of genus Athene armed, out of his headway. Which ludicrous caption containeth a individual(a) of imperium; how kings be to situate ingestion of their counsel of state. That first, they ought to extend to matters unto them, which is the first begetting, or fertilisation; just now if when they ar elaborate, moulded, and regulate in the uterus of their counsel, and perplex ripe, and progress to to be brought forth, that then they suffer not their counsel, to go done with the reply and direction, as if it depended on them; solely cook the matter spinal column into their avow hands, and exploit it erupt to the world, that the decrees and final directions (which, because they accrue forth, with free will and power, ar resembled to genus Athene armed) proceeded from themselves; and not only from their authority, but (the more than to annex account to themselves) from their head and device.