LETTERS FROM THE CABALA. 15 



cannot cease to be : but, rather it were a simple and arro 

 gant part in me to forbear it. 



It is thought Mr. Attorney shall be chief justice of the 

 Common-place ; in case Mr. Solicitor rise, I would be glad 

 now at last to be solicitor : chiefly because I think it will 

 increase my practice, wherein God blessing me a few years, 

 I may mend my state, and so after fall to my studies and 

 ease ; whereof one is requisite for my body, and the other 

 serveth for my mind ; wherein if I shall find your lordship s 

 favour,! shall be more happy than I have been, which may 

 make me also more wise. I have small store of means 

 about the king, and to sue myself is not fit ; and therefore 

 I shall leave it to God, his majesty, and your lordship ; for 

 I must still be next the door. I thank God, in these 

 transitory things I am well resolved. So beseeching your 

 lordship not to think this letter the less humble, because it 

 is plain, I rest, etc. 



FR. BACON. 



Sir Francis Bacon to the Earl of Essex, when Sir 



Robert Cecil was in France. 

 My singular good Lord, 



I do write, because I have not yet had time fully to 

 express my conceit, nor now, to attend you touching Irish 

 matters, considering them as they may concern the state ; 

 that it is one of the aptest particulars that hath come, or 

 can come upon the stage, for your lordship to purchase 

 honour upon, I am moved to think for three reasons; 

 because it is ingenerate in your house in respect of my 

 Jord your father s noble attempts; because of all the 

 accidents of state at this time, the labour resteth upon that 

 most; and because the world will make a kind of com 

 parison between those that set it out of frame, and those 

 that shall bring it into frame : which kind of honour giveth 



