14.Works, IV.472 (the antitheses for cruelty are listed on pp. 479–80).

15.Letters and Life, IV.93 (the breathing), 76–7 (the garden), 65 (the marvels), 52 (Salisbury’s estate). All these are recorded in a notebook for 1608, but Bacon carried on making preparatory notes even in his last, tormented years. Even when he was convicted and done for, and had sought interviews with the King, Buckingham and Prince Charles, there he was again, scribbling down the exact phrase he should put to them. Some of the notes verge on being pathetic. To Prince Charles he intended to say, hoping for his own restitution, ‘the work of the Father is creation, of the Son redemption’ [Letters and Life, VII.352).

16.‘Explorata: or Discoveries’, in Ben Jonson: the Complete Poems, ed. George Parfitt, Penguin, 1975, p. 401.