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Lord Bacon’s essays were the first in English that bore the name.
“To write just treatises requireth leisure in the writer and leisure in the reader … which is the cause which hath made me choose to write certain brief notes … which I have called essays.”—Dedication to Prince Henry.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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