Hi LIFE OF BACON. 



kind of compliments are many times &quot; instar magnorum 

 meritorum ;&quot; and therefore that it would be hard for me to 

 find you, I have committed to this poor paper the humble 

 salutations of him that is more yours than any man s, and 

 more yours than any man. To these salutations, I add a 

 due and joyful gratulation, confessing that your lordship, 

 in your last conference with me before your journey, spake 

 not in vain, God making it good, that you trusted we 

 should say, &quot; quis putasset?&quot; Which, as it is found true 

 in a happy sense, so I wish you do not find another &quot; quis 

 putasset,&quot; in the manner of taking this so great a service ; 

 but I hope it is as he said, &quot; nubecula est cito transibit ;&quot; 

 and that your lordship s wisdom and obsequious circum 

 spection and patience will turn all to the best. So referring 

 all to some time that I may attend you, I commit you to 

 God s best preservation. 



And his advice is thus stated by Bacon: &quot;Well, the next 

 news that I heard, was that my lord was come over, and 

 that he was committed to his chamber for leaving Ireland 

 without the Queen s licence : this was at Nonsuch, where 

 (as my duty was) I came to his lordship, and talked with 

 him privately about a quarter of an hour, and he asked mine 

 opinion of the course that was taken with him; I told him : 

 My lord, nubecula est, cito transibit : it is but a mist ; but 

 shall I tell your lordship it is as mists are, if it go upwards, it 

 may perhaps cause a shower, if downwards it will clear up. 

 And therefore, good my lord, carry it so, as you take away 

 by all means all umbrages and distastes from the Queen, 

 and especially if I were worthy to advise you, (as I have 

 been by yourself thought, and now your question imports 

 the continuance of that opinion) observe three points : first, 

 make not this cessation or peace, which is concluded with 

 Tyrone, as a service wherein you glory, but as a shuffling 

 up of a prosecution which was not very fortunate. Next, 

 represent not to the Queen any necessity of estate, whereby, 



