The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-29
By Lord Bacon.

By Lord Bacon.
 There be none of the affections
 which have been noted to fascinate or bewitch, but love and envy. They both have vehement wishes, they frame themselves readily into imaginations and suggestions and they come easily into the life Scripture calleth envy an evil eye, and the astrologers call the evil influence of the stars evil aspects. So that still there seemeth to be ac- knowledged in the evil of any an ir- radiation of the eye.
 What persons are apt to envy oth- CTS, what persons are most subject to
 be envied themselves and what Is the
 difference between public and private
 envy?
 A man that hath no virtue in him
 self ever envieth virtue in others. For
 mems minds will either feed upon their
 own good or upon others evil and who
 wanteth the one will prey upon the other and who so Is out of hope to att
 tain to another's virtue will seek to
 come even by depressing anothers for
 tune.
 A man that is busy and inquistive is commonly envious, for to know much other mems matter cannot be, because Il that ado may concern his own es-
 tate, therefore it must needs be that he taketh in kind to play pleasure in looking upon the fortunes of others. Men of noble birth are noted to be envious toward new men when they rise. for the distance is altered and it is like a deceit of the eyes that when others come in they think themselves go back.
 Deformed persons and old men are envious For he that cannot possibly | mend his own case will do what he can to impair another except these defects light upon a very grave and learned nature, which thinketh to | make his natural wants part of his honor, as in the cases of Agesilaus and Tamerlane that were lame men, Lastly, near kinsfolk and fellows in office and those that have been bred together are more apt to envy their equals when they are raised. Concerning those that are more oi l less subject to envy. Persons of emi- nent virtue when they are advanced are less envied. For their fortune seemeth but due unto them and nc man envieth the payment of a debt | Again, envy is ever joined with tho comparing of a mans self, and where | there is no comparison, no envy, ant therefore kings are not envied but bs kings. |
 Persons of noble blood are less en vied in their rising, for it seemetf | but right done to their birth. besides there. seemeth not much added to theil | fortunes, and envy is as the sunbeam | that beat hotter upon bank or steel 1 rising ground than upon a plain. Above all. those are most subjec to envy which carry the greatness o
 their fortunes in an insolent and prou' manner. being never well. but whil they are showing how great they are ! either by outward pomp or by triumph l ing over all opposition or competition | whereas, wise men will rather do sac rifice to envy in suffering themselve
 sometimes of purpose to be crossed ant
 overborne In things that do not mucl concern them.
 Of all affections. envy is the mos importune and continual, for of othe Laffections there Is occasion given nov and then. And 1t Is also noted tha love and envy make man pine whe other affections do not, because the are so continual. It Is also the yiles
 affection, and the most depraved, fo
 which cause 1t Is the proper attitud
 of the devil. who is called ''the en vious man that soweth tares anon the wheat by night"