50 MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS. 



me, so it maketh me wish, that if you have accomplished 

 yourself as well in the points of virtue and experience, 

 which you sought by your travel, as you have won the 

 perfection of the Italian tongue, I might have the content 

 ment to see you again in England, that we may renew the 

 fruit of our mutual good will ; which, I may truly affirm, is, 

 on my part, much increased towards you, both by your own 

 demonstration of kind remembrance, and because I discern 

 the like affection in your honourable and nearest friends. 



Our news are all but in seed ; for our navy is set forth 

 with happy winds, in token of happy adventures, so as we 

 do but expect and pray, as the husbandman when his 

 corn is in the ground. 



Thus commending me to your love, I commend you to 

 God s preservation. 



To the Right Honourable his very good Lord, the 



Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, &c.* 

 My very good Lord, 



I was wished to be here ready in expectation of some 

 good effect ; and therefore I commend my fortune to your 

 lordship s kind and honourable furtherance. My affection 

 inclineth me to be much [your] lordship s, and my course 

 and way, in all reason and policy for myself, leadeth me to 

 the same dependence : hereunto if there shall be joined 

 your lordship s obligation in dealing strongly for me as you 

 have begun, no man can be more yours. A timorous man 

 is every body s, and a covetous man is his own. But if 

 your lordship consider my nature, my course, my friends, 

 my opinion with her majesty, if this eclipse of her favour 

 were past, I hope you will think, I am no unlikely piece of 

 wood to shape you a true servant of. My present thank 

 fulness shall be as much as I have said. I humbly take 

 my leave. 



Your Lordship s true humble servant, 



From Greenwich, &quot;P R &quot;RAP OK 



this 5th of April, 1594. 



To the Right Honourable my very good Lord, the 



Lord Keeper.t 

 My Lord, 



I have, since I spake with your lordship, pleaded to the 

 Queen against herself for the injury she doth Mr. Bacon in 

 delaying him so long, and the unkindness she doth me in 



* Harl MSS. vol. 6997, No. 20. t Ibid. No. 87. 



