...mind, it may be, Bacon's own words as contained in his will : " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches and to foreign nations and the next ages ". 37. Antoine Coiffier, le marquis d'Effiat, conducted the negotiations for the marriage of Henrietta...

...in mind, it may be, Bacon's own words as contained in his will: "For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches and to foreign nations and the next ages". 37. Antoine Coiffier, le marquis d'Effiat, conducted the negotiations for the marriage of Henrietta...

...same grave with his mother. In his will was found the touching clause : " For my memory I bequeath it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages." The words hold us. We linger, murmuring and repeating them. And thus lingering, this becomes a requiem,...