The works of Francis Bacon, lord chancellor of England.

198 MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS.
your daughters, if you bear a mind of love and finely, somewhat after the manner of my late lord
concord, otherwise you must be content to be a privy seai;* not all out so sharply, but as elestranger unto us; for I may not be so unwise as gantly. Sir Thomas Lake, who is also new in
to suffer you to be an author or occasion of dis- that court, did very well, familiarly and counselsension between your daughters and their hus- lor-like.t My lord of Pembroke, who is likebands, having seen so much misery of that kind wise a stranger there, did extraordinary well,
in yourself. and became himself well, and had an evident
And above all things I will turn back your applause.4 I meant well also; and because my
kindness, in which you say, you will receive my information was the ground; having spoken out
wife if she be cast off; for it is much more likely of a few heads which I had gathered, for I seldom
we have occasion to receive you being cast off, if do more, I set down, as soon as I came home,
you remember what is passed. But it is time to cursorily, a frame of that I had said; though I
make an end of those follies, and you shall at this persuade myself I spake it with more life. I
time pardon me this one fault of writing to you; have sent it to Mr. Murray sealed; if your mafor I mean to do it no more till you use me and jesty have so much idle time to look upon it, it
respect me as you ought. So, wishing you better may give some light of the day's work: but I
than it seemeth you will draw upon yourself, I most humbly pray your majesty to pardon the
rest, Yours, errors. God preserve you ever.
FR. BACON. Your majesty's most humble subject,
and devoted servant,
FR. BACON.
April 29, 1615.
TO SIR THOMAS BODELEY, AFTER HE HAD IMPARTED TO HITM A WRITING, ENTITLED, COGITdTJA1 ET VISA.*
SIR FRANCIS BACON TO KING JAMES.b
SIR, —In respect of my going down to my house
in the country, I shall have miss of my papers, IT MAY PLEASE YOUR MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY,
which I pray you therefore to return unto me. It pleased your majesty to commit to my care
You are, I bear you witness, slothful, and you and trust for Westminster Hall three particulars;
help me nothing: so as I am half in conceit that that of the rege inconsulto, which concerneth
you affect not the argument, for myself, I know Murray; that of the commendams, which conwell, you love and affect. I can say no more to
to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to
you, but nzon canimnus sardis, respondent omrnia Sir Philip Sidney." Nor is he less remembered by the monusylvx. If you be not of the lodgings chalked up, ment he has left in his writings and poems, chiefly composed
whereof I speak in my preface, I am but to pass in his youth, and in familiar exercises with the gentleman I
have before mentioned.-Stephens.
by your door. But if I had you a fortnight at * Late Earl of Northampton.
Gorhambury, I. would make you tell me another + Sir Thomas Lake was about this time made one of the
tale; or else I would add a cogitation against principal secretaries of state, as he had been formerly Latin
secretary to Queen Elizabeth, and, before that time, bred
libraries, and be revenged on you that way. I tunder Sir Francis Walsingham. But, in the year 1l18, fall.
pray you send me some good news of Sir Thomas ing into the king's displeasure, and being engaged in the
Smith, and commend me very kindly to him. quarrels with his wife and daughter, the Lady Roos, with
the Countess of Exeter, he was at first suspended from the
So I rest. execution of his place, and afterwards removed, and deeply
1607. censured and fined in the Star Chamber; although it is said
the king then gave him, in open court, this public eulogy, that
he was a minister of state fit to serve the greatest prince in
Europe. Whilst this storm was hanging over his head, he
TO THE KING.tr writ many letters to the king and the Marquis of BuckingIT MAYh P.LEASE YOUR EXCELLENT IM~AJESTY, sham, which I have seen, complaining of his misfortune, that
his ruin was likely to proceed from the assistance he gave to
MIr. St. John his day is past, and well past. his nearest relations.-Stephens.
I hold it to be Janus Bifrons; it hath a good t William, Earl of Pembroke, son to IIenry Herbert, Earl
aspect to that which is past and to the future; of Pembroke, Lord President of the Council in the marches
of Wales, by Mary his wife, a lady in whom the muses and
and doth both satisfy and prepare. All did well; graces seemed to meet; whose very letters, in the judgment
my lord chief justice delivered the law for the of one who saw many of them, declared her to be mistress
benevolence strongly; I would he had done it of a pen not inferior to that of her brother, the admirable Sir
Philip Sidney, and to whom he addressed his Arcadia. Nor
timely. Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequert spake did this gentleman degenerate from their wit and spirit, as
his poems, his great patronage of learned men, and resolute
* Rawley's Resuscitatio. opposition to the Spanish match, did, among other instances,
1 Ibid fully prove. In the year 1616, he was made lord chamber-: The chancellor of the exchequer here meant, was Sir lain, and chosen chancellor of the university of Oxford. He
Fulke Greville, who, being early initiated into the court of died suddenly on the 10th of April, 1630, having just conmQueen Elizabeth, became a polite and fine gentleman; and, pleted fifty years. But, his only son deceasing,a child,before
in the 18th of King James, was created Lord Brooke. He him, his estate and honours descended upon his younger
erected a noble monument for himself on the north side of brother, Philip, Earl of Montgomery, the lineal ancestor of
Warwick church, which hath escaped the late desolation, the present noble and learned earl.-Stephens.
with this well known inscription: "Fulke Greville, servant a Sir David Dalrymple's Memorials and LettYr,% p. 46.