LETTERS FROM THE BACONIANA. 199 



Secretary Morton, who is now a saint in heaven. It was at 

 a time when the great desolation of the plague was in the 

 city, and when myself was ill of a dangerous and tedious 

 sickness. The first time that I found any degree of health, 

 nothing came sooner to my mind than to acknowledge 

 your majesty s great favour by my most humble thanks. 

 And because i see your majesty taketh delight in my writ 

 ings, and to say truth they are the best fruits I now yield, 

 I presume to send your majesty a little discourse of mine, 

 touching a war with Spain, which I writ about two years 

 since, which the king your brother liked well. It is written 

 without bitterness or invective, as kings affairs ought to be 

 carried : but, if I be not deceived, it hath edge enough. I 

 have yet some spirits left and remnant of experience, which 

 I consecrate to the king s service and your majesty s; for 

 whom I pour out my daily prayers to God, that he would 

 give your majesty a fortune worthy your rare virtues : 

 which some good spirit tells me will be in the end. I do 

 in all reverence kiss your majesty s hands, ever resting 

 Your Majesty s most humble 

 and devoted servant. 



FRANCIS ST. ALBAN. 



A Letter of the Lord Bacon s to the University of 

 Cambridge, upon his sending to their Public Li 

 brary, his Book of the Advancement of Learning. 



. Franciscus Baro de Verulamio, Vicecomes Sancti Albani, 

 Alma3 Matri inclytae Academiae Cantabrigiensi, Salutem. 



Debita filii, qualia possum, persolvo. Quod ver6 facio, 

 idem et vos hortor ; ut Augmentis Scientiarum strenu in- 

 cumbatis, et in animi modestia libertatem ingenii retineatis, 

 neque talenturn a veteribus concreditum in sudario reponatis. 

 Affuerit proculdubio et affulserit divini luminis gratia, si 

 humiliata, et submissa religioni philosophia, clavibus sensus 

 legitime, et dextre utamini, et amoto omni contradictions 

 studio, quisque cum alio, ac si ipse secum, disputet. Valete. 



