ESSEX S LIBERATION. Ixxix 



In the same spirit, and with the same parental anxiety 

 by which all Bacon s conduct had been influenced, he 

 wrote two letters, one as from Anthony Bacon to Essex, 

 the other from Essex, in answer, both to be shown by 

 Bacon to the Queen ; and prepared a letter to be sent by 

 Essex directly to her majesty, (c) the scope of which were, 

 says Bacon, &quot; but to represent and picture forth unto her 

 majesty my lord s mind to be such, as I knew her majesty 

 would fainest have had it: which letters whosoever shall 

 see, for they cannot now be retracted or altered, being by 

 reason of my brother s or his lordship s servants delivery, 

 long since come into divers hands, let him judge, espe 

 cially if he knew the Queen, and do remember those 

 times, whether they were not the labours of one that 

 sought to bring the Queen about for my lord of Essex his 



To such expedients did his friendship for Essex induce 

 him to submit: expedients, which, however they may be 

 sanctioned by the conduct of courtiers, stooping, as they 

 suppose, to occasions not to persons, (x) but ill accord 



(c) See note 4 E at the end. 



(&amp;lt;) In another part of his Apology he says : &quot; And I drew for him, by 

 his appointment, some letters to her majesty ; which though I knew well 

 his lordship s gift and style was far better than mine own, yet, because he 

 required it, alleging, that by his long restraint he was grown almost a 

 stranger to the Queen s present conceits, I was ready to perform it; and 

 sure I am, that for the space of six weeks or two months it prospered so 

 well, as I expected continually his restoring to his attendance.&quot; 



(x} See the Advancement of Learning (vol. ii. page 33), under the head 

 of objections to learning from the manners of learned men. The passage 

 begins &quot; not that I,&quot; and ends, &quot; these stoopings to points of necessity and 

 convenience, though they may have some outward baseness, yet in a judg 

 ment truly made, they are to be accounted submissions to the occasion, not 

 to the person.&quot; The nature of this debasement is powerfully stated in an 

 essay upon the Regal Character, by William Hazlitt, in page 336 of his 

 Political Essays. 



