MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS. 



The Lord Bacon, his Letter to the most illustrious, 

 and most excellent Prince Charles, Prince of 

 Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Earl of Chester, &c.* 



It may please your Highness, 



In part of my acknowledgment to your highness, I have 

 endeavoured to do honour to the memory of the last King 

 of England, that was ancestor to the King your father and 

 yourself, and was that King to whom both unions may in 

 a sort refer, that of the roses being in him consummate, and 

 that of the kingdoms by him begun : besides, his times de 

 serve it, for he was a wise man and an excellent King ; and 

 yet the times very rough and full of mutations and rare 

 accidents: and it is with times as it is with ways, some 

 are more up hill and down hill, and some are more flat and 

 plain, and the one is better for the liver, and the other for 

 the writer. I have not flattered him, but took him to life 

 as well as I could, sitting so far off, and having no better 

 light ; it is true your highness hath a living pattern, in 

 comparable of the King your father, but is not amiss for 

 you also to see it in one of these ancient pieces, God pre 

 serve your highness. 



Your Highness s most humble and devoted Servant, 



FRANCIS ST. ALBAN. 



Mr. Francis Bacon to Mr. Robert Cecil. f 

 Sir, 



I am very glad that the good affection and friendship, which 

 conversation and familiarity did knit between us, is not by 

 absence and intermission of society discontinued ; which 

 assureth me it had a farther root than ordinary acquaint 

 ance. The signification whereof, as it is very welcome to 



* Third Edition of Resuscitatio. 



t From the original draught in the Library of Queen s College, Oxford. 

 Arch. D. 2. This letter seems to be of a very early date, and to have been 

 written to Mr. Robert Cecil while he was upon his travels. 

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