17. Of Deformity, p.191 (my italics). In a letter of 17 December 1612, soon after the publication of the 1612 Essays, one of the court gossips, John Chamberlain, writes that ‘Sir Francis Bacon hath set out new Essays, where in a chapter of Deformity the world takes notice that he paints out his little cousin [i.e. Lord Salisbury] to the life’. The Letters of John Chamberlain, ed. N. E. McClure, 2 vols., Philadelphia, I. 397.