...revealed his secret pretty plainly to those who can read between the lines in his last beautiful Prayer : "I have hated all cruelty and hardness of heart ; I have, though in a despised weed, sought the good of all men." Now, this word weed had then ordinarily the meaning of a garment — it...

...brightness of Thy Sanctuary. . . . The state of the poor and oppressed have been precious in mine eyes. I have hated all cruelty and hardness of heart. I...in a despised weed, procured the good of all men." The foregoing crudely sketched facts may possibly assist in arousing some slight conception of the...

...man with a soul in his body can read it and doubt its absolute candor and honesty. In it he says : " I have (though in a despised weed) procured the good of all men." No one has ever explained what this " good of all men," which Bacon had procured and which went about...

...where other poem by Bacon— and accepted by There is no love Spedding as Bacon's work— an expanI have, though In a despised weed. Procured the good of all men. Poseidlppus, which runs:— The south wind blows from presence of the sun. The world's a bubble; and...

...Again, we find him writing, " The state of the poor and oppressed have been precious in mine eyes. I have hated all cruelty and hardness of heart. I...though in a despised weed procured the good of all men. " Where, when, and how, did Bacon forego the glory of his own name ? and by what ' despised weed '...

...justifying his course : " The state and bread of the poor and oppressed have been precious in mine eyes : I have hated all cruelty and hardness of heart : I...in a despised weed) procured the good of all men." Why, we are forced to ask, could not Bacon have faced his accusers with words like these, and dared...

...in a noted weed," which means in a " pseudonym," and compare it with the words of Bacon's prayer, " I have (though in a ' despised weed ') procured the good of all men." [Resuscitatio, 1671.] Was not the pseudonym of the Actor Shakespeare a very " despised weed " in those...

...in a noted weed," which means in a "pseudonym," and compare it with the words of Bacon's prayer, " I have (though in a 'despised weed') procured the good of all men." [Resuscitatio, 1671.] Was not the pseudonym of the Actor Shakespeare a very "despised weed" in those...

...branches to the seas and to the floods. The state and bread of the poor have been precious in mine eyes ; I have hated all cruelty and hardness of heart. \I...in a despised weed, procured the good of all men.") The " despised weed " has never been satisfactorily explained, except by the supposition that it refers...

...which the great author, Francis Bacon, wrote securely concealed. In his last prayer, Bacon says, " I have though in a despised weed procured the good of all men," while in the /6th " Shakespeare " sonnet he says : — Why write I still all one, ever the same, And...