202 LETTERS FROM THE BACONIANA. 



The same in English by the Publisher. 

 Francis, Baron of Verulam, Viscount of St. Albans, 

 to the most Famous College of the Holy and Un 

 divided Trinity in Cambridge, Health. 



The progresses of things, together with themselves, are 

 to be ascribed to their originals. Wherefore, seeing I have 

 derived from your fountains my first beginnings in the 

 sciences, I thought it fit to repay to you the increases of 

 them. I hope also, it may so happen that these things 

 of our s may the more prosperously thrive among you, being 

 replanted in their native soil. Therefore, I likewise exhort 

 you that ye yourselves, so far as is consistent with all due 

 modesty and reverence to the ancients, be not wanting to 

 the Advancement of the Sciences : but that next to the 

 study of those sacred volumes of God, the holy Scriptures, 

 ye turn over that great volume of the works of God, his 

 creatures, with the utmost diligence, and before all other 

 books, which ought to be looked on only as commentaries 

 on those texts. Farewell. 



The Lord Chancellor Bacon s Letter to Dr. Wil 

 liams, then Lord Bishop of Lincoln, concerning his 

 Speeches, etc. 



My very good Lord, 



I am much bound to your lordship for your honourable 

 promise to Dr. Rawley. He chooseth rather to depend 

 upon the same in general than to pitch upon any particu 

 lar ; which modesty of choice I commend. 



I find that the ancients (as Cicero, Demosthenes, 

 Plinius Secundus, and others) have preserved both their 

 orations and their epistles. In imitation of whom I have 

 done the like to my own, which nevertheless I will not pub 

 lish while I live ; but I have been bold to bequeath them 

 to your lordship and Mr. Chancellor of the Duchy. My 



