Excerpt from The Life of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England H B gave marks, very early, of a prega nant and happy difpofition, far above his years. \ve are told that Queen Eliza bet/a took a particular delight in trying him with quefiions; and received f0 much fatisfaetion from the good fenfe and manlinefs of his anfwers, that {he was wont to call him, in mirth, her young Lord Keeper. One faying of his deferves to be remembred. The Queen having. Asked him his age, while he was yet a boy; he anfwered readily. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."