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and distrust, in crossing her disposition, by standing; stead 

 fastly for my lord of Essex, and suspecting it also to be a 

 stratagem arising from some particular emulation, I writ to 

 her two or three words of compliment, signifying to her 

 majesty, &quot; That if she would be pleased to spare me in my 

 lord of Essex s cause, out of the consideration she took of 

 my obligation towards him, I should reckon it for one of 

 her greatest favours: but otherwise desiring her majesty 

 to think that I knew the degrees of duties; and that no 

 particular obligation whatsoever to any subject could sup 

 plant or weaken that entireness of duty that I did owe and 

 bear to her and her service.&quot; And this was the goodly 

 suit I made, being a respect no man that had his wits 

 could have omitted : but nevertheless I had a farther reach 

 in it; for I judged that day s work would be a full period 

 of any bitterness or harshness between the Queen and my 

 lord: and therefore, if I declared myself fully according to 

 her mind at that time, which could not do my lord any 

 manner of prejudice, I should keep my credit with her ever 

 after, whereby to do my lord service. 



The proceedings after this communication to the Queen 

 are thus stated by Bacon : &quot; Hereupon the next news that 

 I heard was, that we were all sent for again ; and that her 

 majesty s pleasure was, we all should have parts in the 

 business ; and the lords falling into distribution of our 

 parts, it was allotted to me, that I should set forth some 

 undutiful carriage of my lord, in giving occasion and coun 

 tenance to a seditious pamphlet, as it was termed, which 

 was dedicated unto him, which was the book before men 

 tioned of King Henry IV. Whereupon I replied to that 

 allotment, and said to their lordships, That it was an old 

 matter, and had no manner of coherence with the rest of 

 the charge, being matters of Ireland : and therefore, that I 

 having been wronged by bruits before, this would expose 



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