The works of Francis Bacon, lord chancellor of England.

LETTERS FROM THE CABALA. 9
I think, because this springtime it is but a lkind portunity can possibly minister or offer. And
of sport. It is hoped, that as the state here hath that is, the causes of Ireland, if they be taken by
performed the part of good attorneys, to deliver the right handle: for if the wound be not ripped
the king quiet possession of his kingdom; so the up again, and come to a festered sense, by new
king will redeliver them quiet possession of their foreign succours, I think that no physician will go
places, rather filling places void, than removing on much with letting blood ", in declinatione
men placed. morbi," but will intend to purge and corroborate.
So, etc. To which purpose I send you mine opinion, without labour of words in the enclosed, and sure I
am, that if you shall enter into the mnatter accordSIR FRANCIS BACON TO MR. DAVID FOULES IN ing to the vivacity of your own spirit, nothing
SCOTLAND, UPON THE ENTRANCE OF HIS MA- can make unto you a more gainful return; for
JESTY'S REIGN. you shall make the queen's felicity complete,
SIp, the occasion awaketh in me the remem- which now (as it is) is incomparable; and for
brance of the constant and mutual good offices yourself, you shall make yourself as good a pawhich passed between my good brother and triot as you are thought a politic, and to have no
yourself; whereunto, as you know, I was not less generous ends than dexterous delivery of
altogether a stranger, though the time and design yourself towards your ends; and as well to have
(as between brethren) made me more reserved. true arts and grounds of government, as the faBut well do I bear in mind the great opinion cility and felicity of practice and negotiation;
which my brother (whose judgment I much and to be as well seen in the periods and tides of
reverence) would often express to me of the extra- estates, as in your own circle and way; than the
ordinary sufficiency, dexterity, and temper, which which I suppose nothing can be a better addition
he had found in you, in the business and service and accumulation of honour unto you.
of the king our sovereign lord. This latter bred This, I hope, I may in privateness write, either
in me an election, as the former gave an induce- as a kinsman, that may be bold, or as a scholar,
ment, for me to address myself to you, and to that hath liberty of discourse, without committing
make this signification of my desire, towards a of any absurdity. If not, I pray your honour to
mutual entertainment of good affection and cor- believe, I ever loved her majesty and the state,
and now love yourself; and there is never any
respondence between us, hoping that some good and now love yourself; and there is never any
effect may result of it, towards the king's service, vehement love without some absurdity, as the
and that for our particulars, though occasion give Spaniard well saith, " desuario con la calentura."
So, desiring your honour's pardon, I ever conyou the precedence, of furthering my being known So, desiring your hoour' pardon, I ever on
by good note unto the king; so, no long time willinue, etc.
intercede, before I, on my part, shall have some FR. BACON.
means given to requite your favours, and verify
your commendation. And so, with my lovinog
commendations, (good Mr. Foules,) I leave you SIR FRANCIS BACON TO THE LORD TREASURER,
to God's goodness. TOUCHING HIS SPEECIH IN PARLIAMENT.
From Gray's Inn, this 25th of March. IT MAY PLEASE YOUR GOOD LORDSHIP,
I was sorry to find by your lordship's speech
yesterday, that my last speech in Parliament.
delivered in discharge of my conscience, my duty
SIR FRANCES BACON TO SIR AOBERT CECIL, AF- to God, her majesty, and my country, was offenFOR REDUCING THAT KINGI)OMA TO CIVILITY, sive: if it were misreported, I would be glad to
WITH SOME REASONS ENCLOSED. attend your lordship, to disavow any thing I said
not; if it were misconstrued, I would be glad to
IT MAY PLEASE YOUR HONOUR, expound my words, to exclude any sense I meant
As one that wisheth you all increase of honour, not; if my heart be misjudged by imputation of
and as one that cannot leave to love the state, popularity, or opposition, I have great wrong,
what interest soever I have, or may come to have and the greater, because the manner of my speech
in it, and as one that now this dead vacation time did most evidently show that I spake most silnhave some leisure "- ad aliud agendum," I will ply, and only to satisfy my conscience, and not
presume to propound unto you that which, though with any advantage or policy to sway the case,
you cannot but see, yet I know not whether you and my terms carried all signification of duty ahd
apprehend and esteem it in so high a degree that zeal towards her majesty and her service. It is very
is, for the best action of importation to yourself, true, that from the beginning, whatsoever was a
of sound honour and merit to her majesty, and double subsidy I did wish might for precedent's
this crown, without ventosity or popularity, that sake appeartobe extraordinary,and for discontent's
the riches of any occasion, or the tide of any op- sake might not have been levied upon the poorer'VOL. III.-2