bacon (n.)

bacon (v.)

Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616): Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lv.

Words that wise Bacon or brave Raleigh spoke.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle ii. Book ii. Line 168.

Let us fly and save our bacon.

Martin Luther (1483-1546): Works. Book iv. Chap. lv.

If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shin'd,

The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind!

Or ravish'd with the whistling of a name,

See Cromwell, damn'd to everlasting fame!

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 281.