new terms of art to express their own sense, and to avoid 
     circuit of speech, without regard to the pureness, 
     pleasantness, and, as I may call it, lawfulness of the 
     phrase or word.

     Bacon says here that the entire humanist effort in 
languages and historical revival was incidental to religious 
differences. The printing presses made available authors of 
remote times. People began to imitate their styles. The 
schoolmen had such a technical terse way that they fell quite 
out of fashion, being utterly unable to develop any popularity 
with the new reading public. The growing public could only be 
won by flowery rhetoric and, Bacon goes on to say (p. 24):

     for the winning and persuading of them, there grew of 
     necessity in chief price and request eloquence and variety