| symbol used by Bacon in the
| GESTA GRAYORUM, the ADVANCEMENT
| OF LEARNING, and the DE
| AUGMENTIS to represent the
| sovereign. And the significance
| which he attaches to the word
| 'Hermes' is evident from his
| address to King James in the
| Introduction to the ADVANCEMENT
| OF LEARNING. 'There is met in
| your Majesty, says Bacon, 'a
| rare conjunction as well of
| divine and sacred literature as
| of profane and human; so as
| your Majesty standeth invested
| of that triplicity which in
| great veneration was ascribed
| to the ancient Hermes; the
| power and fortune of a King,
| the knowledge and illumination
| of a Priest, and the learning
| and the universality of a
| Philosopher.' Bacon is, or
| pretended to be, greatly
| impressed by James's learning:
| 'To drink indeed', he says, 'of
| the true fountains of learning,
| nay to have such a fountain of
| learning in himself, in a king,
| and in a king born, is always a