Rotherfield.
345. _Bacon a Poet._--In Boswell's Journal of his _Tour to the Hebrides_
he quotes the subjoined couplet, premising, "As Bacon says--
"Who then to frail mortality shall trust,
But limns the water, or but writes in dust."
Is not _Bacon_ here a slip of the pen or press? Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord
Bacon, and Bacon the sculptor, are the only conspicuous men of the name,
and none of them that I know wrote verses.