LIFE OF BACON. 



protect her favourite. The Cecils had abated their ani 

 mosity. The people were anxious for his reinstatement. 

 Anthony Bacon was at this time living under the protection 

 of Essex, and the brothers were in constant and affectionate 

 intercourse. 



6th June, The sentence had scarcely been pronounced, when Bacon s 

 anxiety for his friend again manifested itself. On the very 

 next day he attended the Queen, fully resolved to exert his 

 utmost endeavours to restore Essex again to favour. The 

 account of his interview with the Queen, from which his 

 friendship and the Queen s affection for Essex may be 

 seen, is thus stated by Bacon : &quot; As soon as this day was 

 past, I lost no time ; but the very next day following, as I 

 remember, I attended her majesty, fully resolved to try 

 and put in ure my utmost endeavour, so far as I in my 

 weakness could give furtherance, to bring my lord again 

 speedily into court and favour ; and knowing, as I supposed 

 at least, how the Queen was to be used, I thought that to 

 make her conceive that the matter went well then, was 

 the way to make her leave off there ; and I remember well 

 I said to her, You have now, madam, obtained victory 

 over two things, which the greatest princes in the world 

 cannot at their wills subdue; the one is over fame; the 

 other is over a great mind : for surely the world is now, I 

 hope, reasonably well satisfied; and for my lord, he did 

 shew that humiliation towards your majesty, as I am per 

 suaded he was never in his lifetime more fit for your 

 majesty s favour than he is now : therefore, if your majesty 

 will not mar it by lingering, but give over at the best, 

 and now you have made so good a full point, receive him 

 again with tenderness, I shall then think, that all that 

 is past is for the best. Whereat, I remember, she took 

 exceeding great contentment, and did often iterate and put 

 me in mind, that she had ever said, that her proceedings 



