Bacon's "Of Love" : A Brief Summary
1. The stage or the theater is a platform where Love is celebrated more than other issues of mankind. On the stage, love is a matter for comedies or tragedies, but in real life it is very much more problematic. 2. Some times the mischiefs of love are like that of the sirens (sea nymphs who would sing and lure mariners to danger). Or sometimes it is like that of a fury (in Greek mythology they are spirits who punish the guilty and are the justice makers in the world). 3. Great men in history have never been transported to a mad degree of love. It is proof that noble minds can keep out this "weak passion". 4. But there are exceptions, such as Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony; who was a roman general who loved Cleopatra) and Appius Claudius (was a roman politician who loved a woman named Virginia). Antony was a voluptuous man where as Claudius was an austere and wise man. 5. Therefore love can find entrance into anywhere. Love is like a thief who will find entrance into ...