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others, according to your discretion ; other matters I write 

 not of: Myself am like the miller of Huntington, that was 

 wont to pray for peace among the willows ; for while the 

 winds blew the wind-mills wrought, and the water-mill was 

 less customed. So I see that controversies of religion must 

 hinder the advancement of sciences. Let me conclude with 

 my perpetual wish towards yourself, that the approbation of 

 yourself by your own discreet and temperate carriage, may 

 restore you to your country, and your friends to your society. 

 And so I commend you to God s goodness. 

 Grays-Inn, this 10th 

 of October, 1609. 



Sir Francis Bacon to Mr. Matthew, touching Instau- 

 ratio Magna. 



Mr. Matthew, I heartily thank you for your letter of the 

 10th of February, and I am glad to receive from you matter 

 both of encouragement and advertisement, touching my 

 writings. For my part, I do wish that since there is almost 

 no &quot; Lumen Siccum&quot; in the world, but all, &quot; Madidum, 

 Maceratum,&quot; infused in affections, and bloods, or humours, 

 that these things of mine had those separations that might 

 make them more acceptable; so that they claim not so much 

 acquaintance of the present times, as they be thereby the 

 less like to last. And to shew you that I have some pur 

 pose to new mould them, I send you a leaf or two of the 

 preface, carrying some figure of the whole work ; wherein I 

 purpose to take that which is real and effectual of both 

 writings, and chiefly to add pledge, if not payment to my 

 promise. I send you also a memorial of Queen Elizabeth, 

 to requite your eulogy of the late Duke of Florence s felicity. 

 Of this, when you were here, I shewed you some model, 

 though at that time methought you were as willing to hear 

 Julius Cajsar as Queen Elizabeth commended. But this 



