Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-03-04
From Hepworh Dxons Personal History of Lord Bacon
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From Hepwoth Dxons Personal History of Lord Bacon
Lord Bacon.
HIS YoUTH.-No one lapse is known to
have blurred the beauty of his YOUTH No rush
of mad young blood ever drives him into
brawls To men of less temper aud generosi-
ty than his own-to Deyereux and Montioy,
to Percy and We're, to Sackville and Bruce
he leaves the glory of Calais ands and Mary
lebone park. The be weak son the score of
dress and pomp; if he dote like young girl
on flowers, on scents, on gay colors, on the
tram pings of horse, the ms and outs of a
garden, the furniture of a room he neither
drinks nor games, nor runs wild and loose in
love. Armed with the most winning ways,
the most glozng lip at court, he hurts no hus-
bands peace, he drags no wOman's name into
the mire. He seeks no victories like those of
Essex he burns no shame like Raleigh into
the cheek of one he loves. No Lady Rich as
in Sydney's immortal line, has cause
"To blush when he is named"
When the passions fan out in most men, po-
etry flowers out in him. Old when child,
he seems to grow younger as he grows in
years. Yet with all his wisdom he is not too
wise to be dreamer of dreams; TOR while
busy with his books in Paris he gives ear to
ghosty intimation of his fathers death. All
and flowers delight his eye; his pulse beats
quick at the sight of fine horse, ship in
fl sd sat. .aTeap of country every hing
holy, innocent, aid gay SclF 6h - zFT7T-7+----
wine on a strong mans blood. Joyous, help
full, swift to do good, slow to. think evil, he
leaves on every one who meets him sense of
friendiness, of peace and power. The serea-
ity of his spirit keeps his intellect brig t, his
affections warm; and just as he had lett the
he now, when duty calls him from France,
quits the galleries of the Louvre and St. Cloud
with his morals pure.
HIS HoUsEHoLD.--Lady Bacon and her
sons are poor. Anthony, the loving and be-
loved, with whom Francis had been bred at
Cambridge and in France, has now come
home. His health, bad at the best, has broken
in the south SO he lies for long time in bed
or on couch at his brothers rooms in Gray's
Inn Square. The two young fellows have
little money and expensive ways. Anthony,
as the elder brother owns a seat at Redburn,
in Hertfordshire, with a few farT y ly ing round
it. Gorhambury, too, will be rs when Lady
Bacon dies. But the rents f9sS far below his
needs not to speak of his brother, who is now
prominent at court, u leader in the house of
commons, and candidate for the glory of rep
resenting in parliament the metropolitan
inherits Redgrave and the broad Suffolk acres
lett by the lord keeper, a man with penurious
habits and swarm of children deems his own
nine sons and three daughters burthen
enough without having to pinch for the off.
spring of Lady Ann. When he marries a
daughter they may get an invitation to Red
grave but his brotherly Inequalities end
with the feast Nathaniel may paint their
portraits and present them with game on can
vas, but the artist can do nothing to fill their
mouths Edward has lease from the crown
of Twickenham Park, a delightful place on
the river, of which Francis makes home.
Lady Ann starves herself at Gorhambury that
she may send to Gray's Inn ale from her Gel.
lar, pigeons from her dovecote, fowls from her
farm-yard-gifts which she seasons with a
good deal OF motherly love and not little Of
her best motherly advice. The young men
take the love and leave the advice, as young
men will. Like Buckhurst Herbert, and the
race of gay chevaers, while waiting for better
days and brighter fortunes, they relieve their
wants by help of the Lombards and Jews.
HIS Personal BEARING.-IIow he appears
in outward grace and aspect among these
courtly and martial contemporaries the min
iature by Hiyard helps us to conceive. Slight
in build, rosy and round in flesh, digit in a
sumptuous suit the head well set, erect, and
framed in thick starched fence OF frill a
bloom of study and of travel on the girl.
ish face, looks far younger than his years F; the
hat and feather tossed aside from the broad
white brow, over which crisps an curls a name
OF dark, soft hair; an English nose, firm, open
straight mouth delicate and small-a lady Is
or testers mouth-a thousand pranks and hui
mors, bubbles, whims and daughters lurking
in its twinkling, tremulous lines; such il
Francis Bacon at the age of twenty -four. The
day is named the 10ill of May BY help OF
Sir Dudley Carleton we may look upon the
pleasant scene, upon the pretty bride, the jo
vial knight, the romping girls, and the merry
company, as through glass. Feathers and
lace light up the rooms in the strand. Cecil
has been warmly engaged TO come over from
from Salisbury House. Three Of his gentle
men, Sir Walter Cope, Sir Baptist Hicks
and Sir Hugh Beeston, hard drinkers
and men about town, strut over in his stead
haunting in their swords and plumes; yet the
prodigal bridegroom, sumptuous in his tastes
as in his genius, clad in suit of Gcnoese vel
vet, purple from cap TO shoe, outbraves then
all. The bride, too, is richly digit her Who'll,
dowry seeming to be piled up Oh her cloth o
silver and ornaments OF gold. The wedding
rite is performed at St. Marylebone Chapel
two miles from the Strand, among the lane
and shrubs winding towards the foor of Hamp
stead Hill. Who that Is blessed with an
share of sympathy or poetry cannot see hoy
that glad and shining party ride to the rurf
church on the sunny 10th of May now til
gills will laugh and Sir John will joke, as the
wind through lanes now white with the thor
and the bloom of pears; how the bridesmaid
scatter rosemary and the groomsmen strugg
for the kiss q Who cannot imagine that dil
ner at the Strand, though the tiny hunchbac
Earl of Salisbury has not come over to s
Johns lodging to taste the cheer or kiss Il
bride? We know that the wit is good, I,