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Bacon

CHAPTER VII
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The King saw it, and all the rest, which made him say unto the Marquis, you played an after-game well; and that now he had no reason to be much offended.
"I have already talked of the Revelation, and now am to speak in apocalyptical language, which I hope you will rightly comment: whereof if you make difficulty, the bearer can help you with the key of the cypher.
"My Lord Falkland by this time hath showed you London from Highgate.
_If York House were gone, the town were yours_, and all your straitest shackles clean off, besides more comfort than the city air only.

The Marquis would be exceeding glad the Treasurer had it.

This I know; yet this you must not know from me.

Bargain with him presently, upon as good conditions as you can procure, so you have direct motion from the Marquis to let him have it.

Seem not to dive into the secret of it, though you are purblind if you see not through it.


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