Bacon, _Essay 20._, "Of Empire."

"Kings are like stars--they rise and set--_they have

The worship of the world, but no repose_."

Shelley, _Hellas_.

The following are not exactly parallel, but being "in pari materia," are

sufficiently curious and alike to merit annotation:

"But the common form [of urns] with necks was a proper figure,

making our last bed like our first: nor much unlike the urns of

our nativity, while we lay in the nether part of the earth, and

inward vault of our microcosm."

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