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study as was not worthy such a student. Nevertheless, 

 being so as it is, that you are therein settled, and your 

 country soundly served; I cannot but wish with all my 

 heart, as I do very often, that you may gain a fit reward to 

 the full of your deserts, which I hope will come with heaps 

 of happiness and honour. 



Yours to be used, and commanded, 



TIIO. BODLEY. 

 From Fulham, Feb. 19, 1607. 



Sir, one kind of boldness doth draw on another; inso 

 much as methinks I should offend to signify, that before the 

 transcript of your book be fitted for the press, it will be 

 requisite for you to cast a censor s eye upon the style and 

 the elocution ; which, in the framing of some periods, and in 

 divers words and phrases, will hardly go for current, if the 

 copy brought to me be just the same that you would publish. 



THO. BODLEY. 



Sir Francis Bacon to the Bishop of Ely, upon send 

 ing his writing intituled, Cogitata et Visa. 

 My very good Lord, 



Now your lordship hath been so long in the church and 

 the palace, disputing between kings and popes, methinks 

 you should take pleasure to look into the field, and refresh 

 your mind with some matter of philosophy; though that 

 science be now, through age, waxed a child again, and left 

 to boys and young men. And because you are wont to 

 make me believe you took liking to my writings, I send you 

 some of this vacation fruits, and thus much more for my 

 mind and purpose. &quot; I hasten not to publish, perishing I 

 would prevent.&quot; And I am forced to respect as well my 

 times, as the matter; for with me it is thus, and I think with 

 all men, in my case: if I bind myself to an argument, it 

 loadeth my mind; but if I rid my mind of the present 



