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Francis Bacon. (1561–1626). Essays, Civil and Moral.The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
XV
Of Seditions and Troubles
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SHEPHERDS of people had need know the calendars 1 of tempests in state; which are commonly greatest when things grow to equality; as natural tempests are greatest about the Equinoctia. And as there are certain hollow blasts of wind and secret swellings of seas before a tempest, so are there in states:| | —— Ille etiam cæcos instare tumultus |
| Sæpe monet, fraudesque et operta tumescere bella. |
| [Of troubles imminent and treasons dark |
| Thence warning comes, and wars in secret gathering. Virgil] |
| | Illam Terra parens, irâ irritata deorum, |
| Extremam (ut perhibent) Cœo Enceladoque sororem |
| Progenuit. |
| [Her, Parent Earth, furious with the anger of the gods, brought forth, the youngest sister (as they affirm) of Coeus and Enceladus.] |
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