Bacon. Miles, I come.[1499] Oh, passing warily watcht!
Bacon will make thee next himselfe in love.
When spake the Head?
Miles. When spake the Head! did not you say that hee should tell strange principles of philosophie? Why, sir, it speaks but two wordes at a time. 81
Bacon. Why, villaine, hath it spoken oft?
Miles. Oft! I, marie, hath it, thrice; but in all those three times it hath uttered but seven wordes.
Bacon. As how? 85
Miles. Marrie, sir, the first time he said 'Time is,' as if Fabius Cumentator[1500] should have pronounst a sentence; [the second time[1501]] he said, 'Time was'; and the third time, with thunder and lightning, as in great choller, he said, 'Time is past.'
Bacon. 'Tis past indeed. A[h], villaine, time is past: 90
My life, my fame, my glorie, all[1502] are past!—