Francis Bacon — EEBO-TCP A01128, keyed from Certaine Miscellany Works (1629), published by William Rawley.
An unfinished dialogue, written in 1622 after Bacon’s fall, on whether a war made for religion can be lawful. Six speakers — a moderate divine, a Protestant zealot, a Roman Catholic zealot, a soldier, a courtier and a politique — take up the question of a war against the Turk, and the discussion stops before it is answered. Bacon dedicated it to Lancelot Andrewes, and the dedication is as much an account of his own disgrace and of how he meant to use the time it gave him as it is a preface.
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