64 LETTERS FROM THE CABALA. 



tell me, during- the course of my last service, that you would 

 raise me, and, that when you are resolved to raise a man, 

 you were more careful of him, than himself, and that what 

 you had done for me in my marriage, was a benefit for me, 

 but of no use to your lordship ; and therefore I might 

 assure myself, you would not leave me there, with many 

 like speeches ; which I know too well my duty to take 

 any other hold of, than the hold of a thankful remembrance : 

 and I know, and all the world knoweth, that your lordship 

 is no dealer of holy- water, but noble and real ; and on my 

 part, on sure ground, that I have committed nothing that 

 may deserve any alteration ; and if I cannot observe you as 

 I would, your lordship will impute it to my want of ex 

 perience, which I shall gather better, when I am once 

 settled. 



And therefore my hope is, your lordship will finish a 

 good work, and consider, that time groweth precious, and 

 that I am now &quot; vergentibus annis :&quot; and although I know 

 your fortune is not to want a hundred such as I am, yet I 

 shall be ever ready to give you my best and first fruits, 

 and to supply, as much as in me lieth, a worthiness by 

 thankfulness. 



FR. BACON. 



Lord Chancellor Bacon to the King. 

 It may please your most excellent Majesty. 

 I dare not presume any more to reply upon your 

 majesty, but reserve my defence till I attend your majesty 

 at your happy return, when I hope verily to approve myself 

 not only a true servant to your majesty, but a true friend to 

 my lord of Buckingham ; and for the times also, I hope to 

 give your majesty a good account, though distance of place 

 may obscure them. But there is one part of your majesty s 

 letter, that I could be sorry to take time to answer ; which 

 is, that your majesty conceives, that whereas I wrote that 



