FREFACE. XIX 



I am now ready for you, having sent you some ure 

 of that mine. I thank you for your favours to 

 Mr. Mewtus, and I pray continue the same. So 

 wishing you out or that honourable exile, and placed 

 in a better orb, I ever rest, 



Your lordship s affectionate kinsman, 

 and assured friend, 



FR. VERULAM Cane, (p) 

 York House, Octob. 20th, 1620. 



Sir Henry Wotton to Lord Bacon. 

 Right honourable, and my very good Lord, 

 I have your lordship s letters dated the 20th of 

 October, and I have withal by the care of my cousin, 

 Mr. Thomas Meawtis, and by your own special 

 favour, three copies of that work, wherewith your 

 lordship hath done a great and ever-living benefit 

 to all the children of nature ; and to nature herself 

 in her uttermost extent and latitude : Who never 

 before had so noble nor so true an interpreter, or 

 (as I am readier to style your lordship) never so in 

 ward a secretary of her cabinet. But of your said 



(p) When this Letter, together with the other two next before 

 and after it, were written, upon the occasion of my Lord Chan 

 cellor s publishing his Novum Organum, Sir Henry Wotton, so 

 eminent for his many embassies, great learning, candour, and 

 other accomplishments, was resident at Vienna, endeavouring to 

 quench that fire which began to blaze in Germany, upon the 

 proclaiming the Elector Palatine King of Bohemia. How grateful 

 a present this book was to Sir Henry, cannot better be expressed 

 than by his answer to this letter ; which though it may be found 

 in his Remains, I hope the reader will not be displeased to see 

 part of it transcribed in this place. Bacon s Letters. 



