66 LETTERS FROM THE CABALA. ^ 



of the people, no over-shadowers of the crown ; your 

 council full of tributes of care, faith, and freedom ; your 

 gentlemen, and justices of peace, willing to apply your 

 royal mandates to the nature of their several counties, but 

 ready to obey; your servants in awe of your wisdom, in 

 hope of your goodness ; the fields growing every day, by 

 the improvement and recovery of grounds, from the desert 

 to the garden; the city grown from wood to brick, your 

 sea-walls, or Pomerium of your island, surveyed, and in 

 edifying; your merchants embracing the whole compass of 

 the world, east, west, north, and south ; the times give you 

 peace, and yet offer you opportunities of action abroad; 

 and lastly, your excellent royal issue entaileth these bles 

 sings and favours of God to descend to all posterity. It 

 resteth therefore, that God having done so great things for 

 your majesty, and you for others, you would do so much for 

 yourself, as to go through (according to your good begin 

 nings) with the rectifying and settling of your estate and 

 means, which only is wanting, &quot; Hoc rebus defuit unum.&quot; 

 I therefore, whom only love and duty to your majesty, 

 and your royal line, hath made a financier, do intend to 

 present unto your majesty a perfect book of your estate, 

 like a perspective-glass, to draw your estate nearer to your 

 sight ; beseeching your majesty to conceive, that if I have 

 not attained to do that I would 7 o, in this, which is not 

 proper for me, nor in my element, I shall make your 

 majesty amends in some other thing, in which I am better 

 bred. 



Jan. 2. 1618. God ever preserve, etc. 



The Lord Chancellor Bacon to the King. 



It may please your most excellent Majesty, 

 Time hath been, when I have brought unto you 

 &quot; Gemitum Columbas&quot; from others, now I bring it from 

 myself. I fly unto your majesty with the wings of a dove, 



