LETTERS FROM THE CABALA. 101 



your majesty hath many of yours, which are unknown unto 

 you, I must leave all to the trial of farther time ; and 

 thirsting after the happiness of kissing your royal hand, 

 continue ever Your, etc. 



FR. BACON. 



Sir Francis Bacon, to the Lord Kinloss, upon the 

 Entrance of King James. 



My Lord, 



The present occasion awakeneth in me a remembrance 

 of the constant amity and mutual good offices which passed 

 between my brother deceased and your lordship, wbereunto 

 I was less strange, than in respect of the time 1 had reason 

 to pretend ; and withal I call to mind the great opinion my 

 brother (who seldom failed in judgment of a person) would 

 often express to me of your lordship s great, wisdom and 

 soundness, both in head and heart, towards the service and 

 affairs of our sovereign lord the king. The one of those hath 

 bred in me an election, and the other a confidence, to ad 

 dress my good will and sincere affection to your good lord 

 ship, not doubting, in regard my course of life hath wrought 

 me not to be altogether unseen in the matters of the king 

 dom, that I may be in some use both in points of service to 

 the king, and your lordship s particular: And on the other 

 side, 1 will not omit to desire humbly your lordship s favour,. 

 in furthering a good conceit and impression of my most, 

 humble duty, and true zeal towards the king, to whose 

 majesty words cannot make me known, neither mine own 

 nor others, but time will, to no disadvantage of any that 

 shall fore-run his majesty s experience, by their humanity 

 and commendations. And so I commend your lordship to 

 God s protection. 



Your, etc. 



FR. BACON. 

 From Grays-Inn, etc. 



