

LETTERS FROM THE CABALA. 9 



whose recommendation, I know right well, hath been mate 

 rial to advance her majesty s good opinion of me, I can be 

 but abounden servant. So much may I safely promise, and 

 purpose to be, seeing public and private bonds vary not, but 

 that my service to her majesty and your lordship draw in 

 line. I wish therefore to shew it with as good proof, as I 



can say it in good faith, etc. 



Your Lordship s, etc. 



Two Letters framed, one as from Mr. Anthony Bacon 

 to the Earl of Essex ; the other, as the Earl s 

 Answer. 



My singular good Lord, 



This standing at a stay doth make me, in my love 

 towards your lordship, jealous, lest you do somewhat, or 

 omit somewhat, that amounteth to a new error; for I 

 suppose, that of all former matters there is a full expiation ; 

 wherein, for any thing which your lordship doth, I, for my 

 part, (who am remote) cannot cast or devise wherein my 

 error should be, except in one point, which I dare not 

 censure, nor dissuade; which is, that as the prophet saith, 

 in this affliction you lookup &quot; ad manum percutieutem,&quot; and 

 so make your peace with God. And yet I have heard 

 it noted, that my lord of Leicester, who could never get to 

 be taken for a saint, yet in the queen s disfavour waxed 

 seeming religious. Which may be thought by some, and 

 used by others, as a case resembling yours, if men do not 

 see, or will not see the difference between your two dis 

 positions. But, to be plain with your lordship, my fear 

 rather is, because I hear how some of your good and wise 

 friends, not unpractised in the court, and supposing them 

 selves not to be unseen in that deep and unscrutable centre 

 of the court, which is her majesty s mind, do not only toll 

 the bell, but even ring out peals, as if your fortune were 

 dead and buried, and as if there were no possibility of re- 



