The works of Francis Bacon, lord chancellor of England.

LETTERS FROM STEPHENS. 179
TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR effect more than they can. But still it must be
My LoRD,-His majesty having seen in this remembered, that the stringing of the harp, now
great business your exceeding care and diligence the tuning of it will not serve, except it be well
in his service by the effect which hath followed played on from time to time.
thereupon, hath commanded me to give you many If his majesty's business or commandments
thanks in his name, and to tell you that he seeth require it, I will attend him at Windsor, though
you lay the part of all in all, I would be glad to be spared, because quick airs
you play the part of all in all, &c.. a
Yours, &c. at this time of the year do affect me. At LonG. BUCKINGHAM. don, and so at Theobalds and Hampton Court,
I will not fail, God willing, to wait upon his
Newmarket, the 10th December, 1619.
Newmarket the ndorsed, majesty. Meanwhile I am exceeding glad to
Endorsed,
In the Dutch Cause. hear his majesty hath been lusty and well this
progress. Thus, much desiring to see your lordship, cujuzs amor tantrum mihi crescit in horas, (as
the poet saith,) I ever remain
TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM. Your lordship's most obliged friend
and faithful servant,
MYXlr~~~ VE ~ GOOD LORD, ~FR. VERULAM, Cane.
To keep form, I have written immediately to Gorhambury, this 30th August, 1620.
his majesty of Justice Croke's death, and send
your lordship the letter open, wishing time were
not lost. God preserve and prosper you.
Your lordship's ever, TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.
FR. VERULAM, Cane.
January 24th, 1619.
The tobacco business is well settled in all
points. For the coals, they that brought the offer
to Secretary Calvert, do very basely shrink from
TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGIIAM. their words; but we are casting about to piece it
MY VERY GOOD LORD, and perfect it. The two goose quills, Maxwell
I doubt not but Sir Giles Montpesson adver- and Alured, have been pulled, and they have
tiseth your lordship how our revenue business made submissions in that kind which the board
tiseth your lordship how our revenue business
proceeds. I would his majesty had rested upon thought fit: for we would not do them the honour
the first names; for the additionals, specially the to require a recantation of their opinion, but an
exchequer man, doth not only weaken the matter, acknowledgment of their presumption.
but weakeneth my forces in it, he being thought tHis majesty doth very wisely, (not showing
to have been brought in across. But I go on, and much care or dread to it,) yet really to suppress
hope fgfood service will be done. this licentious course of talking and writing.
For the commissions to be published in the My old Lord Burghley was wont to say, that
Star Chamber, for which it pleaseth his majesty the Frenchman, when he hath talked, he hath
to give me special thanks, I will have special done; but the Englishman, when he hath talked,
care of them in time. God ever prosper you. he begins. It evaporateth malice and discontent
Your lordship's most obliged friend in the one, and kindleth it in the other. And
and faithful servant, therefore, upon some fit occasion, I wish a more
FR. VERULAM, Cane. public example. The king's states, if I should
February 10, 1619. now die and were opened, would be found at my
heart, as Queen Mary said of Calais; we find
additionals still, but the consumption goeth on.
I pray God give his majesty resolution, passing
TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM. by at once all impediments and less respects, to
do that which may help it, before it be irremeMY VERY GOOD LORD, diable. God ever preserve and prosper youl
One gave me a very good precept for the stone; lordship.
that I should think of it most when I feel it Your lordship's most obliged friend
least. This I apply to the king's business, and faithful servant,
which surely I revolve most when I am least in FR. VERULAM, Cane.
action, whereof, at my attendance, I will give his July 23d, 1620.
majesty such account as can proceed from my
poor and mean abilities, which as his majesty, I have stayed the thousand pounds set upon
out of grace, may think to be more than they are, Englefield, for his majesty, and given order fol
so I, out of desire, may think sometime they can levying it.