206 LETTERS FROM THE BACON I AN A. 



A Letter of the Lord Bacon s, in French, to the 

 Marquess Fiat, relating to his Essays. 



Monsieur Y Ambassadeur mon fil, 



Voyant que vostre excellence faict et traite manages, 

 non settlement entre les princes d Angleterre et de France, 

 mais aussi entres les langues (puis que faictes traduire mon 

 livre de l Advancement des Sciences en Frangois) j ai bien 

 voulu vous envoyer mon livre dernierement imprime, que 

 j avois pourveu pour vous, mais j estois en doubte, de le 

 vous envoyer, pour ce qu il estoit escrit en Anglois. Mais 

 ac est heure pour la raison susdicte je le vous envoye. 

 C est un reconcilement de mes Essayes Morales et Civiles ; 

 mais tellement enlargies et enrichies, tant de nombre que de 

 poix, que c est de fait un oeuvre nouveau. Je vous baise 

 les mains, et reste, 



Vostre tres affectionee ami, 



et tres humble serviteur. 



&amp;gt; 



The same in English hy the Publisher. 



My Lord Embassador, my son, 



Seeing that your excellency makes and treats of mar 

 riages, not only betwixt the princes of France and England, 

 but also betwixt their languages (for you have caused my 

 book of the Advancement of Learning to be translated into 

 French) I was much inclined to make you a present of the 

 last book which I published, and which I had in readiness 

 for you. 



I was sometimes in doubt whether I ought to have sent 

 it to you, because it was written in the English tongue. 

 But now, for that very reason I send it to you. It is a re 

 compilement of my Essays, Moral and Civil; but in such 

 manner enlarged and enriched both in number and weight, 



