Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 111, December 13, 1851 / A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
345. Bacon a Poet.
Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 111, December 13, 1851 / A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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345.Bacon a Poet.
—In Boswell's Journal of his Tour to the Hebrides he quotes the subjoined couplet, premising, "As Bacon says—
"Who then to frail mortality shall trust,
But limns the water, or but writes in dust."
Is not Bacon here a slip of the pen or press? Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Bacon, and Bacon the sculptor, are the only conspicuous men of the name, and none of them that I know wrote verses.
R. C S.