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(Vol. vii., p.235.).--It is hardly requisite to state to the readers of
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N. & Q., that many editions of Bacon's memorable, beautiful, and didactic _Essays_ appeared in the distinguished author's lifetime, obviously having experienced (proved by prefatory epistles of different dates) the repeated revision and emendations of the writer. The _Essays_ were clearly favourites with him, as well as with the then reading public. They were first published in 1597, preceded by a letter addressed
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To M. Anthony Bacon, his deare Brother. The _ninth_ edition was issued the year before his death, which took place April 9, 1626. In that edition is added a dedication
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To the Right Honorable my very good Lo. the Duke of Buckingham, his Grace Lo. High Admirall of England; signed,
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FR. ST. ALBAN: previous signatures being
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Fran. Bacon (1597);
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Fr. Bacon (1612);
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Fra. Bacon (no date). In this dedication to the Duke of Buckingham first appeared the passage inquired about:
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I doe now (he tells the Duke) publish my _Essayes_; which, of all my other workes, haue beene most current: for that, as it seems, they _come home to Men's Businesse and Bosomes_.