Resuscitatio, or, Bringing into Publick Light Severall Pieces

This is most true: he was free from malice, which (as he said himself) he never bred nor fed. He was no revenger of injuries; if he had intended to take revenge, he had both the opportunity and a high enough position to have done so. He was no ouster of men original: "Heaver of Men"; one who forcibly removes others from their positions from their places, as if he delighted in their ruin and undoing. He was no defamer of any man to his Sovereign original: "Prince". One day, when a great statesman who had not been his friend had newly died, the King asked him what he thought of that Lord who was gone. He answered: "He would never have made your Majesty’s estate better, but he was sure he would have kept it from being worse." This was the worst thing he would say of him. I reckon this not among his moral virtues, but among his Christian virtues.

His fame is greater and resonates more loudly in foreign parts abroad than at home in his own nation. This verifies that divine sentence:

A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country and in his own house. Matthew 13:57

Concerning this, I will give you only a taste from a letter written from Italy (the storehouse of refined intellectuals original: "Witts") to the late Earl of Devonshire, then Lord Cavendish original: "Candish": "I await the New Essays of my Lord Chancellor Bacon, as well as his History, with a great deal of desire—and whatever else he shall compose. But in particular, regarding his History, I promise myself something perfect and unique, especially regarding Henry VII, where he may exercise the talent of his divine understanding. This Lord is more and more known, and his books are more and more delighted in here. Those men who have more than ordinary knowledge in human affairs esteem him as one of the most capable spirits of this age—and he truly is." Now, his fame does not decrease as time passes, but rather increases. Various original: "Divers" works of his have been translated, both in the past and recently, into other languages—both classical original: "Learned"; likely referring to Latin and modern—by foreign writers! Several persons of high status original: "Quality", during his Lordship’s life, crossed the seas for the purpose of gaining...