The effect of this was that Bodley adopted the course which Bacon threatened to adopt when refused the office of Attorney-General, solicited for him by Essex--he took a farewell of State employments and retired from the Court to devote himself to the service of his "Reverend Mother, the University of Oxford," and to the advancement of her good. To this end he became a collector of books, whereas Bacon would have become "some sorry book-maker or a true pioner in that mine of truth which Anaxagoras said lay so deep." ROBERT BANKS AND SON, RACQUET COURT, FLEET STREET. [Illustration:_ Figure VI._] [Illustration: _Figure VII._] [Illustration: _Figure VIII._] [Illustration: _Figure IX._] [Illustration: _Figure XX._] [Illustration: THE XXXVIII. BOOKE. THE ARGVMENT _Marfisa doth present herselfe before King Charles, and in his presence is baptized: Astolfo doth Senapos sight restore, By whom such hardie feats are enterprised, That Agramant therewith molested sore Is by Sobrino finally aduised, To make a challenge on Rogeros hed, To end the troubles that the warre had bred._ _Figure XIII._ _Figure XIV._] [Illustration: _Figure X._] [Illustration: _Figure XV._] [Illustration: _Figure XI._] [Illustration: _Figure XII._] [Illustration: _Figure XXI._ THE GENEALOGIES RECORDED IN THE SACRED SCRIPTVRES, ACcording to euery FAMILY and TRIBE. WITH The Line of our Sauiour IESVS CHRIST obserued from _Adam_ to the blessed VIRGIN MARY. _By_ I. S. CVM PRIVILEGIO.] [Illustration: _Figure XVI._] [Illustration: _Figure XVII._] [Illustration: _Figure XVIII._] [Illustration: _Figure XIX._] * * * * * TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES 1. Passages in italics are surrounded by _underscores_. 2. Passages in bold are indicated by =bold=. 3. Long "s" has been modernized. 4. Images have been moved from the middle of a paragraph to the closest paragraph break. 5. Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the end of the chapters in which they are referenced. 6. The original text includes Greek characters. For this text version these letters have been replaced with transliterations. 7. Certain words use oe ligature in the original. 8. The following misprints have been corrected: "obain" corrected to "obtain" (page 27) "Shakespere" corrected to "Shakespeare" (page 39) "Bodly" corrected to "Bodley" (page 85) "Shakepeare's" corrected to "Shakespeare's" (page 107) "commenceed" corrected to "commenced" (page 108) "Proecepta" corrected to "Præcepta" (page 135) "deficiences" corrected to "deficiencies" (page 191) "numercial" corrected to "numerical" (footnote 35) 9. Other than the corrections listed above, printer's inconsistencies in spelling, hyphenation, and ligature usage have been retained. End of Project Gutenberg's The Mystery of Francis Bacon, by William T. Smedley