“I will be as ready as a chessman to be wherever your Majesty’s royal hand shall set me. -- Bacon Francis Bacon would have immediately understood the how the CEO of Hewlett Packard, Patricia Dunn , got kicked bumpety bump down the winding staircase up which she had advanced, since he, too, fell in the aftermath of a rather shady scandal that began when, as attorney general, he vetted an application for a patent of monopoly concerning the manufacture of silver and gold thread for a brother and a cousin of the King’s favorite, Buckingham. Ever since Macaulay made the abuse of this patent (by Giles Mompesson, among others, a splendid example of a 17th century buck, unscrupulous, mean, the model for Massinger’s Sir Giles Overreach in A New Way to Pay Old Debts) the centerpiece of his accusing essay about Bacon, Baconites have rushed to the man’s defense. And one of these days, LI will dawdle over a post about the whole thing – but – yesterday, when we were looking for scholarly work on fla
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