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 1      Pre|           the style in which it is written, and partly from its being
 2      Not|         volume of the quarto size, written in the hand of one of Bacon’
 3      Not|           A titlepage, on which is written “VALERIUS TERMINUS of the
 4      Not|        headings; and at the end is written, “The end of the Abridgment
 5      Not|            or astrological symbols written on the blank outside of
 6      Not|        dated 25th March, 1603, and written in the same hand as this
 7      Not|            of the titlepage he has written out a complete table of
 8      Not|        decided opinion that it was written before the ADVANCEMENT OF
 9      Not| supposition that no part of it was written later involves a difficulty
10      Not|            that the body of it was written earlier I see no reason
11      Not|         from several loose papers, written at different periods and
12      Not|       TEMPORIS PARTUS MASCULUS was written after the ADVANCEMENT OF
13      Not|       manuscript long after it was written, he may have observed and
14      Not|       which they seem to have been written, he has only to look at
15      Not|          book of the same argument written in Latin and destined {for}
16      Not|          fragments.~[The title] is written in the transcriber’s hand:
17        1|          from God, is said to have written a natural history of all
18      BCo|          containing the symbols is written corresponds with that in
19      BCo|            is in Bacon’s own hand, written lightly in the upper corner