LETTERS FROM THE CABALA. 



Sir Francis Bacon to the Lord Treasurer, con 

 cerning the Solicitor s place. 



AFTER the remembrance of my humble duty, though 

 I know, by late experience, how mindful your lordship 

 vouchsafeth to be of me and my poor fortune, and since it 

 pleased your lordship, during my indisposition, and when her 

 majesty came to visit your lordship, to make mention of me 

 for my employment and preferment ; yet being now in the 

 country, I do presume that your lordship, who of yourself 

 had an honourable care of the matter, will not think it a 

 trouble to be solicited therein. My hope is this, that whereas 

 your lordship told me her majesty was somewhat gravelled 

 upon the offence she took at my speech in parliament ; your 

 lordship s favourable endeavour, who hath assured me 

 that for your own part you construe that I spake to the 

 best, will be as a good tide to remove her from that shelve. 

 And it is not unknown to your good lordship, that I was 

 the first of the ordinary sort of the lower house that 

 spake for the subsidy : and that which I after spake 

 in difference, was but in circumstance of time, which 

 methinks was no great matter, since there is variety allowed 

 in counsel, as a discord in music, to make it more perfect. 



