MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS. C3 



books ; whereof the former, which you saw, I cannot but 

 account as a page of the latter. I have now published 

 them both ; whereof I thought it a small adventure to send 

 you a copy, who have more right to it than any man, 

 except Bishop Andrews, who was my inquisitor. 



The death of the late great judge concerned not me, 

 because the other was not removed. I write this in answer 

 to your good wishes, which I return not as flowers of Flo 

 rence,* but as you mean them; whom I conceive place 

 cannot alter, no more than time shall me, except it be for 

 the better. 



1605. 



To my Lady Packington, in Answer to a Message 



by her sent.f 

 Madam, 



You shall with right good will be made acquainted with 

 any thing that concerneth your daughters, if you bear a 

 mind of love and concord, otherwise you must be content 

 to be a stranger unto us ; for I may not be so unwise as to 

 suffer you to be an author or occasion of dissension between 

 your daughters and their husbands, having seen so much 

 misery of that kind in yourself. 



And above all things I will turn back your kindness, in 

 which you say, you will receive my wife if she be cast off: 

 for it is much more likely we have occasion to receive you 

 being cast off, if you remember what is passed. But it is 

 time to make an end of those follies, and you shall at this 

 time pardon me this one fault of writing to you ; for I mean 

 to do it no more till you use me and respect me as you 

 ought. So wishing you better than it seemeth you will 

 draw upon yourself, I rest, 



Yours, 



FR. BACON. 



To Sir Thomas Bodeley, after he had imparted to 

 him a Writing, intitled, Cogitata et Visa.^ 



Sir, 



In respect of my going down to my house in the country, 

 I shall have miss of my papers, which I pray you therefore 

 to return unto me. You are, I bear you witness, slothful, 



* Mr. Matthew wrote an Elegy on the Duke of Florence s felicity, 

 t From an old copy of Sir Francis Bacon s Letters. 

 J Ilawley s Resuscitatio. 



