I forward you the following inscription, which I met with in an old copy of Cæsar's Commentaries (if I remember rightly) at Pontefract, Yorkshire:
"Si quis hunc librum rapiat scelestus
Atque scelestis manibus reservet
Ibit ad nigras Acherontis undas
Non rediturus."
F. F. G. (Oxford).
BACON'S "ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING."
(Vol. vii., p.493.)
I have to thank L. for his notice of my edition of the Advancement of Learning, as well as for the information which he has given me, of which I hope to have an early opportunity of availing myself. As he expresses a hope that it may be followed by similar editions of other of Bacon's works, I may state that the Essays, with the Colours of Good and Evil, are already printed, and will be issued very shortly. I am quite conscious that the references in the margin are by no means complete: indeed, as I had only horæ subsecivæ to give to the work, I did not attempt to make them so.