LETTERS FROM THE RESUSCITATIO. Ill 



An Answer of my Lord of Essex, to the immediately 

 preceding Letter of Mr. Bacon s. 



Mr. Bacon, 



I can neither expound, nor censure your late actions; 

 being ignorant of all of them, save one ; and having directed 

 my sight inward only, to examine myself. You do pray me 

 to believe, that you only aspire to the conscience and com 

 mendation, of &quot; Bonus Civis,&quot; and &quot; Bonus Vir ;&quot; and I do 

 faithfully assure you, that while that is your ambition 

 (though your course be active and mind contemplative) yet 

 we shall, both, &quot; Convenire in eodem Tertio ;&quot; and &quot; Con- 

 venire inter nos ipsos.&quot; Your profession of affection, and 

 offer of good offices, are welcome to me : For answer to 

 them, I will say but this ; that you have believed I have 

 been kind to you ; and you may believe that I cannot be 

 other, either upon humour, or mine own election. I am a 

 stranger to all poetical conceits, or else I should say some 

 what of your poetical example. But this I must say ; that 

 I never flew with other wings than desire to merit ; and 

 confidence in my sovereign s favour; and when one of these 

 wings failed me, I would light no where but at my sove 

 reign s feet, though she suffered me to be bruised, with my 

 fall. And till her majesty, that knows I was never bird of 

 prey, finds it to agree with her will and her service, that my 

 wings should be imped again, I have committed myself to 

 the mue. No power, but my God s, and my sovereign s, can 

 alter this resolution of 



Your retired friend, 



ESSEX. 



Two Letters framed ; the one, as from Mr. Anthony 

 Bacon to the Earl of Essex; the other, as the 

 Earl s Answer thereunto, delivered to Sir Francis 



