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  BACON’S ESSAYS

  AND

  WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS

  WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE BY A. SPIERS

  PREFACE BY B. MONTAGU, AND

  NOTES BY DIFFERENT WRITERS

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  BOSTON

  LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY

  _Copyright, 1884_,
  BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

  THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, MASS., U. S. A.




ADVERTISEMENT.


In preparing the present volume for the press, use has been freely
made of several publications which have recently appeared in England.
The Biographical Notice of the author is taken from an edition of the
Essays, by A. Spiers, Ph. D. To this has been added the Preface to
Pickering’s edition of the Essays and Wisdom of the Ancients, by Basil
Montagu, Esq. Parker’s edition, by Thomas Markby, M. A., has furnished
the arrangement of the Table prefixed to the Essays, and also “the
references to the most important quotations.” The Notes, including the
translations of the Latin, are chiefly copied from Bohn’s edition,
prepared by Joseph Devey, M. A. We have given the modern translation of
the Wisdom of the Ancients contained in Bohn’s edition, in preference
to that “done by Sir Arthur Gorges,” although the last mentioned has a
claim upon regard, as having been made by a contemporary of Lord Bacon,
and published in his lifetime. Its language is in the style of English
current in the author’s age, and for this reason may resemble more
nearly what the philosopher himself would have used, had he composed
the work in his own tongue instead of Latin.




CONTENTS.


                                PAGE
  Preface by B. Montagu, Esq.                                          xi

  Introductory Notice of the Life and Writings of Bacon, by
  A. Spiers, Ph. D.                                                     1


  ESSAYS; OR, COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL.

  NO.

   1. Of Truth                          1625;                          57

   2. Of Death                          1612;  enlarged 1625           62

   3. Of Unity in Religion; Of Religion 1612;  rewritten 1625          65

   4. Of Revenge                        1625;                          73

   5. Of Adversity                      1625;                          75

   6. Of Simulation and Dissimulation   1625;                          78

   7. Of Parents and Children           1612;  enlarged 1625           82

   8. Of Marriage and Single Life       1612;  slightly enlarged 1625  84

   9. Of Envy                           1625;                          87

  10. Of Love                           1612;  rewritten 1625          95

  11. Of Great Place                    1612;  slightly enlarged 1625  98

  12. Of Boldness                       1625;                         103

  13. Of Goodness, and Goodness
        of Nature                       1612;  enlarged 1625          105

  14. Of Nobility                       1612;  rewritten 1625         110

  15. Of Seditions and Troubles         1625                          113

  16. Of Atheism                        1612;  slightly enlarged 1625 124

  17. Of Superstition                   1612;     ”        ”     1625 130

  18. Of Travel                         1625;                         132

  19. Of Empire                         1612;  much enlarged 1625     135

  20. Of Counsels                       1612;  enlarged 1625          143

  21. Of Delays                         1625;                         151

  22. Of Cunning                        1612;  rewritten 1625         153

  23. Of Wisdom for a Man’s Self        1612;  enlarged 1625          159

  24. Of Innovations                    1625;                         161

  25. Of Dispatch                       1612;                         163

  26. Of Seeming Wise                   1612;                         166

  27. Of Friendship                     1612;  rewritten 1625         168

  28. Of Expense                        1597;  enlarged 1612;
                                                 and again 1625       179

  29. Of the true Greatness of
        Kingdoms and Estates            1612;  enlarged 1625          181

  30. Of Regimen of Health              1597;  enlarged 1612;
                                                 again 1625           195

  31. Of Suspicion                      1625;                         197

  32. Of Discourse                      1597;  slightly enlarged 1612;
                                                 again 1625           199

  33. Of Plantations                    1625;                         202

  34. Of Riches                         1612;  much enlarged 1625     207

  35. Of Prophecies                     1625;                         212

  36. Of Ambition                       1612;  enlarged 1625          217

  37. Of Masques and Triumphs           1625;                         218

  38. Of Nature in Men                  1612;  enlarged 1625          223

  39. Of Custom and Education           1612;     ”      ”            225

  40. Of Fortune                        1612;  slightly enlarged 1625 228

  41. Of Usury                          1625;                         231

  42. Of Youth and Age                  1612;  slightly enlarged 1625 237

  43. Of Beauty                         1612;     ”         ”    1625 240

  44. Of Deformity                      1612;  somewhat altered 1625  241

  45. Of Building                       1625;                         243

  46. Of Gardens                        1625;                         249

  47. Of Negotiating                    1597;  enlarged 1612;
                                                 very slightly
                                                 altered 1625         259

  48. Of Followers and Friends          1597;  slightly enlarged 1625 261

  49. Of Suitors                        1597;  enlarged 1625          264

  50. Of Studies                        1597;      ”    1625          266

  51. Of Faction                        1597;  much enlarged 1625     269

  52. Of Ceremonies and Respects        1597;  enlarged 1625          271

  53. Of Praise                         1612;      ”    1625          273

  54. Of Vainglory                      1612;                         276

  55. Of Honor and Reputation           1597; omitted 1612;
                                                republished 1625      279

  56. Of Judicature                     1612;                         282

  57. Of Anger                          1625;                         289

  58. Of the Vicissitude of Things      1625;                         292


  APPENDIX TO ESSAYS.

   1. Fragment of an Essay of Fame                                    301

   2. Of a King                                                       303

   3. An Essay on Death                                               307


  THE WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS; A SERIES OF
  MYTHOLOGICAL FABLES.

  Preface                                                             317

   1. Cassandra, or Divination. Explained of too free and
       unseasonable Advice                                            323

   2. Typhon, or a Rebel. Explained of Rebellion                      324

   3. The Cyclops, or the Ministers of Terror. Explained
       of base Court Officers                                         327

   4. Narcissus, or Self-Love                                         329

   5. The River Styx, or Leagues. Explained of Necessity,
       in the Oaths or Solemn Leagues of Princes                      331

   6. Pan, or Nature. Explained of Natural Philosophy                 333

   7. Perseus, or War. Explained of the Preparation and
       Conduct necessary to War                                       343

   8. Endymion, or a Favorite. Explained of Court Favorites           348

   9. The Sister of the Giants, or Fame. Explained of
        Public Detraction                                             350

  10. Acteon and Pentheus, or a Curious Man. Explained
        of Curiosity, or Prying into the Secrets of Princes
        and Divine Mysteries                                          351

  11. Orpheus, or Philosophy. Explained of Natural and
        Moral Philosophy                                              353

  12. Cœlum, or Beginnings. Explained of the Creation,
        or Origin of all Things                                       357

  13. Proteus, or Matter. Explained of Matter and its
        Changes                                                       360

  14. Memnon, or a Youth too forward. Explained of the
        fatal Precipitancy of Youth                                   363

  15. Tythonus, or Satiety. Explained of Predominant
        Passions                                                      364

  16. Juno’s Suitor, or Baseness. Explained of Submission
        and Abjection                                                 365

  17. Cupid, or an Atom. Explained of the Corpuscular
        Philosophy                                                    366

  18. Diomed, or Zeal. Explained of Persecution, or Zeal
        for Religion                                                  371

  19. Dædalus, or Mechanical Skill. Explained of Arts and
        Artists in Kingdoms and States                                374

  20. Ericthonius, or Imposture. Explained of the improper
        Use of Force in Natural Philosophy                            378

  21. Deucalion, or Restitution. Explained of a useful Hint
        in Natural Philosophy                                         379

  22. Nemesis, or the Vicissitude of Things. Explained of
        the Reverses of Fortune                                       380

  23. Achelous, or Battle. Explained of War by Invasion               383

  24. Dionysus, or Bacchus. Explained of the Passions                 384

  25. Atalanta and Hippomenes, or Gain. Explained of the
        Contest betwixt Art and Nature                                389

  26. Prometheus, or the State of Man. Explained of an
        Overruling Providence, and of Human Nature                    391

  27. Icarus and Scylla and Charybdis, or the Middle Way.
        Explained of Mediocrity in Natural and Moral
        Philosophy                                                    407

  28. Sphinx, or Science. Explained of the Sciences                   409

  29. Proserpine, or Spirit. Explained of the Spirit included
        in Natural Bodies                                             413

  30. Metis, or Counsel. Explained of Princes and their
        Council                                                       419

  31. The Sirens, or Pleasures. Explained of Men’s Passion
        for Pleasures                                                 420




PREFACE.


In the early part of the year 1597, Lord Bacon’s first publication
appeared. It is a small 12mo. volume, entitled “Essayes, Religious
Meditations, Places of Perswasion and Disswasion.” It is dedicated

  “_To M. Anthony Bacon, his deare Brother_.

  “Louing and beloued Brother, I doe nowe like some that have an
  Orcharde ill Neighbored, that gather their Fruit before it is
  ripe, to preuent stealing. These Fragments of my Conceites were
  going to print, To labour the staie of them had bin troublesome,
  and subiect to interpretation; to let them passe had beene to
  aduenture the wrong they mought receiue by vntrue Coppies, or
  by some Garnishment, which it mought please any that should set
  them forth to bestow vpon them. Therefore I helde it best as
  they passed long agoe from my Pen, without any further disgrace,
  then the weaknesse of the Author. And as I did euer hold, there
  mought be as great a vanitie in retiring and withdrawing mens
  conceites (except they bee of some nature) from the World, as
  in obtruding them: So in these particulars I haue played myself
  the Inquisitor, and find nothing to my vnderstanding in them
  contrarie or infectious to the state of Religion, or Manners, but
  rather (as I suppose) medecinable. Only I disliked now to put
  them out, because they will be like the late new Halfepence,
  which, though the Siluer were good, yet the Peeces were small.
  But since they would not stay with their Master, but would needes
  trauaile abroade, I haue preferred them to you that are next my
  selfe, Dedicating them, such as they are, to our Loue, in the
  depth whereof (I assure you) I sometimes wish your Infirmities
  translated vppon my selfe, that her Maiestie mought haue the
  Seruice of so actiue and able a Mind, and I mought be with
  excuse confined to these Contemplations and Studies for which I
  am fittest, so commend I you to the Preseruation of the Diuine
  Maiestie: From my Chamber at Graies Inne, this 30 of Januarie,
  1597. Your entire Louing Brother, FRAN. BACON.”

The Essays, which are ten in number, abound with condensed thought and
practical wisdom, neatly, pressly, and weightily stated, and, like
all his early works, are simple, without imagery. They are written in
his favorite style of aphorisms, although each essay is apparently a
continued work, and without that love of antithesis and false glitter
to which truth and justness of thought are frequently sacrificed by the
writers of maxims.

A second edition, with a translation of the _Meditationes Sacræ_, was
published in the next year; and another edition enlarged in 1612, when
he was solicitor-general, containing thirty-eight essays; and one still
more enlarged in 1625, containing fifty-eight essays, the year before
his death.

The Essays in the subsequent editions are much augmented, according
to his own words: “I always alter when I add, so that nothing is
finished till all is finished,” and they are adorned by happy and
familiar illustration, as in the essay of Wisdom for a Man’s Self,
which concludes, in the edition of 1625, with the following extract,
not to be found in the previous edition: “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. It is the
wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger, who digged and made
room for him. It is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they
would devour. But that which is specially to be noted is, that those
which (as Cicero says of Pompey) are _Sui Amantes sine Rivali_ are many
times unfortunate. And whereas they have all their time sacrificed
to themselves, they become in the end themselves sacrifices to the
inconstancy of Fortune, whose wings they thought, by their self wisdom,
to have pinioned.”

So in the essay upon Adversity, on which he had deeply reflected before
the edition of 1625, when it first appeared, he says: “The virtue of
prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude; which
in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of
the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth
the great benediction, and the clearer revelation of God’s favor. Yet,
even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David’s harp, you shall
hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy
Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than
the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and
distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in
needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively
work upon a sad and solemn ground than to have a dark and melancholy
work upon a lightsome ground; judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the
heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious
odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed; for prosperity
doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.”

The Essays were immediately translated into French and Italian, and
into Latin, by some of his friends, amongst whom were Hacket, Bishop of
Lichfield, and his constant, affectionate friend, Ben Jonson.

His own estimate of the value of this work is thus stated in his
letter to the Bishop of Winchester: “As for my Essays, and some other
particulars of that nature, I count them but as the recreations of my
other studies, and in that manner purpose to continue them; though I
am not ignorant that these kind of writings would, with less pains and
assiduity, perhaps yield more lustre and reputation to my name than the
others I have in hand.”

Although it was not likely that such lustre and reputation would dazzle
him, the admirer of Phocion, who, when applauded, turned to one of his
friends, and asked, “What have I said amiss?” although popular judgment
was not likely to mislead him who concludes his observations upon the
objections to learning and the advantages of knowledge by saying:
“Nevertheless, I do not pretend, and I know it will be impossible for
me, by any pleading of mine, to reverse the judgment either of Æsop’s
cock, that preferred the barleycorn before the gem; or of Midas, that
being chosen judge between Apollo, president of the Muses, and Pan,
god of the flocks, judged for plenty; or of Paris, that judged for
beauty and love against wisdom and power. For these things continue
as they have been; but so will that also continue whereupon learning
hath ever relied and which faileth not, _Justificata est sapientia
a filiis suis_:” yet he seems to have undervalued this little work,
which for two centuries has been favorably received by every lover
of knowledge and of beauty, and is now so well appreciated that a
celebrated professor of our own times truly says: “The small volume to
which he has given the title of ‘Essays,’ the best known and the most
popular of all his works, is one of those where the superiority of his
genius appears to the greatest advantage, the novelty and depth of his
reflections often receiving a strong relief from the triteness of the
subject. It may be read from beginning to end in a few hours; and yet
after the twentieth perusal one seldom fails to remark in it something
overlooked before. This, indeed, is a characteristic of all Bacon’s
writings, and is only to be accounted for by the inexhaustible aliment
they furnish to our own thoughts and the sympathetic activity they
impart to our torpid faculties.”

During his life six or more editions, which seem to have been pirated,
were published; and after his death, two spurious essays, “Of Death,”
and “Of a King,” the only authentic posthumous essay being the Fragment
of an Essay on Fame, which was published by his friend and chaplain,
Dr. Rawley.

This edition is a transcript of the edition of 1625, with the
posthumous essays. In the life of Bacon[1] there is a minute account of
the different editions of the Essays and of their contents.

They may shortly be stated as follows:—

First edition, 1597, genuine.

There are two copies of this edition in the university library at
Cambridge; and there is Archbishop Sancroft’s copy in Emanuel Library;
there is a copy in the Bodleian, and I have a copy.

Second edition, 1598, genuine.

Third edition, 1606, pirated.

Fourth edition, entitled “The Essaies of Sir Francis Bacon, Knight, the
Kings Solliciter Generall. Imprinted at London by Iohn Beale, 1612,”
genuine. It was the intention of Sir Francis to have dedicated this
edition to Henry, Prince of Wales; but he was prevented by the death
of the prince on the 6th of November in that year. This appears by the
following letter:—

  _To the Most High and Excellent Prince, Henry, Prince of Wales,
  Duke of Cornwall, and Earl of Chester._

  It may please your Highness: Having divided my life into the
  contemplative and active part, I am desirous to give his Majesty
  and your Highness of the fruits of both, simple though they be.
  To write just treatises, requireth leisure in the writer and
  leisure in the reader, and therefore are not so fit, neither in
  regard of your Highness’s princely affairs nor in regard of my
  continual service; which is the cause that hath made me choose
  to write certain brief notes, set down rather significantly than
  curiously, which I have called Essays. The word is late, but the
  thing is ancient; for Seneca’s Epistles to Lucilius, if you mark
  them well, are but Essays; that is, dispersed meditations though
  conveyed in the form of epistles. These labors of mine, I know,
  cannot be worthy of your Highness, for what can be worthy of you?
  But my hope is, they may be as grains of salt, that will rather
  give you an appetite than offend you with satiety. And although
  they handle those things wherein both men’s lives and their
  persons are most conversant; yet what I have attained I know not;
  but I have endeavored to make them not vulgar, but of a nature
  whereof a man shall find much in experience and little in books;
  so as they are neither repetitions nor fancies. But, however, I
  shall most humbly desire your Highness to accept them in gracious
  part, and to conceive, that if I cannot rest but must show my
  dutiful and devoted affection to your Highness in these things
  which proceed from myself, I shall be much more ready to do it in
  performance of any of your princely commandments. And so wishing
  your Highness all princely felicity, I rest your Highness’s most
  humble servant,

  1612.             FR. BACON.


It was dedicated as follows:—

  _To my loving Brother, Sir John Constable, Knt._

  My last Essaies I dedicated to my deare brother Master Anthony
  Bacon, who is with God. Looking amongst my Papers this vacation,
  I found others of the same nature: which, if I myselfe shall
  not suffer to be lost, it seemeth the World will not; by the
  often printing of the former. Missing my Brother, I found you
  next; in respect of bond both of neare Alliance, and of straight
  Friendship and Societie, and particularly of communication in
  Studies. Wherein I must acknowledge my selfe beholding to you.
  For as my Businesse found rest in my Contemplations, so my
  Contemplations ever found rest in your loving Conference and
  Judgment. So wishing you all good, I remaine your louing Brother
  and Friend,

  FRA. BACON.


Fifth edition, 1612, pirated. Sixth edition, 1613, pirated. Seventh
edition, 1624, pirated. Eighth edition, 1624, pirated. Ninth edition,
entitled, “The Essayes or Covnsels, Civill and Morall, of Francis Lo.
Vervlam, Viscovnt St. Alban. Newly enlarged. London, Printed by Iohn
Haviland for Hanna Barret and Richard Whitaker, and are to be sold at
the Signe of the King’s Head in Paul’s Churchyard.” 1625, genuine.

This edition is a small quarto of 340 pages; it clearly was published
by Lord Bacon; and in the next year, 1626, Lord Bacon died. The
Dedication is as follows, to the Duke of Buckingham:—

  _To the Right Honorable my very good Lo. the Duke of Buckingham
  his Grace, Lo. High Admirall of England._

  EXCELLENT LO.:—Salomon saies, A good Name is as a precious
  Oyntment; and I assure myselfe, such wil your Grace’s Name bee,
  with Posteritie. For your Fortune and Merit both, haue beene
  eminent. And you haue planted things that are like to last. I
  doe now publish my Essayes; which, of all my other Workes, have
  beene most currant: for that, as it seemes, they come home to
  Mens Businesse and Bosomes. I haue enlarged them both in number
  and weight, so that they are indeed a new Work. I thought it
  therefore agreeable to my Affection, and Obligation to your
  Grace, to prefix your Name before them, both in English and in
  Latine. For I doe conceiue, that the Latine Volume of them (being
  in the vniuersal language) may last as long as Bookes last. My
  Instauration I dedicated to the King: my Historie of Henry the
  Seventh (which I haue now also translated into Latine), and my
  Portions of Naturall History, to the Prince: and these I dedicate
  to your Grace: being of the best Fruits, that by the good
  encrease which God gives to my pen and labours, I could yeeld.
  God leade your Grace by the Hand. Your Graces most obliged and
  faithfull Seruant.

  FR. ST. ALBAN.


Of this edition, Lord Bacon sent a copy to the Marquis Fiat, with the
following letter:[2]—

  “MONSIEUR L’AMBASSADEUR MON FILZ: Voyant que vostre Excellence
  faict et traite Mariages, non seulement entre les Princes
  d’Angleterre et de France, mais aussi entre les langues (puis
  que faictes traduire mon Liure de l’Advancement des Sciences en
  Francois) i’ai bien voulu vous envoyer mon Liure dernierement
  imprimé que i’avois pourveu pour vous, mais i’estois en doubte,
  de le vous envoyer, pour ce qu’il estoit escrit en Anglois. Mais
  a’ cest’heure pour la raison susdicte ie le vous envoye. C’est un
  Recompilement de mes Essays Morales et Civiles; mais tellement
  enlargiés et enrichiés, tant de nombre que de poix, que c’est de
  fait un ouvre nouveau. Ie vous baise les mains, et reste vostre
  tres affectionée Ami, et tres humble Serviteur.


  THE SAME IN ENGLISH.

  MY LORD AMBASSADOR, MY SON: Seeing that your Excellency makes and
  treats of Marriages, not only betwixt the Princes of France and
  England, but also betwixt their languages (for you have caused
  my book of the Advancement of Learning to be translated into
  French), I was much inclined to make you a present of the last
  book which I published, and which I had in readiness for you. I
  was sometimes in doubt whether I ought to have sent it to you,
  because it was written in the English tongue. But now, for that
  very reason, I send it to you. It is a recompilement of my Essays
  Moral and Civil; but in such manner enlarged and enriched both in
  number and weight, that it is in effect a new work. I kiss your
  hands, and remain your most affectionate friend and most humble
  servant, &c.

Of the translation of the Essays into Latin, Bacon speaks in the
following letter:—

  “TO MR. TOBIE MATHEW: It is true my labors are now most set to
  have those works which I had formerly published, as that of
  Advancement of Learning, that of Henry VII., that of the Essays,
  being retractate and made more perfect, well translated into
  Latin by the help of some good pens which forsake me not. For
  these modern languages will, at one time or other, play the
  bankrupt with books; and since I have lost much time with this
  age, I would be glad, as God shall give me leave, to recover it
  with posterity. For the Essay of Friendship, while I took your
  speech of it for a cursory request, I took my promise for a
  compliment. But since you call for it, I shall perform it.”

In his letter to Father Fulgentio, giving some account of his writings,
he says:—

  “The _Novum Organum_ should immediately follow; but my moral and
  political writings step in between as being more finished. These
  are, the History of King Henry VII., and the small book, which,
  in your language, you have called _Saggi Morali_, but I give it a
  graver title, that of _Sermones Fideles_, or _Interiora Rerum_,
  and these Essays will not only be enlarged in number, but still
  more in substance.”

The nature of the Latin edition, and of the Essays in general, is thus
stated by Archbishop Tenison:—

  “The Essays, or Counsels Civil and Moral, though a by-work
  also, do yet make up a book of greater weight by far than the
  Apothegms; and coming home to men’s business and bosoms, his
  lordship entertained this persuasion concerning them, that
  the Latin volume might last as long as books should last. His
  lordship wrote them in the English tongue, and enlarged them as
  occasion served, and at last added to them the Colors of Good and
  Evil, which are likewise found in his book _De Augmentis_. The
  Latin translation of them was a work performed by divers hands:
  by those of Dr. Hacket (late Bishop of Lichfield), Mr. Benjamin
  Jonson (the learned and judicious poet,) and some others, whose
  names I once heard from Dr. Rawley, but I cannot now recall them.
  To this Latin edition he gave the title of _Sermones Fideles_,
  after the manner of the Jews, who called the words Adagies, or
  Observations of the Wise, Faithful Sayings; that is, credible
  propositions worthy of firm assent and ready acceptance. And
  (as I think), he alluded more particularly, in this title, to
  a passage in _Ecclesiastes_, where the preacher saith, that he
  sought to find out _Verba Delectabilia_ (as Tremellius rendereth
  the Hebrew), pleasant words; (that is, perhaps, his Book of
  Canticles;) and _Verba Fidelia_ (as the same Tremellius),
  Faithful Sayings; meaning, it may be, his collection of Proverbs.
  In the next verse, he calls them Words of the Wise, and so many
  goads and nails given _ab eodem pastore_, from the same shepherd
  [of the flock of Israel”].

In the year 1638, Rawley published, in folio, a volume containing,
amongst other works, _Sermones Fideles, ab ipso Honoratissimo Auctore,
præterquam in paucis, Latinitate donati_. In his address to the reader,
he says:—

  _Accedunt, quas priùs_ Delibationes Civiles _et_ Morales
  _inscripserat; Quas etiam in Linguas plurimas Modernas translatas
  esse novit; sed eas posteà, et Numero, et Pondere, auxit; In
  tantum, ut veluti Opus Novum videri possint; Quas mutato Titulo_,
  Sermones Fideles, _sive_ Interiora Rerum, _inscribi placuit_. The
  title-page and dedication are annexed: _Sermones Fideles sive
  Interiora Rerum. Per Franciscum