LIFE OF BACON. 



draw out the ill humour; but after, they have not the dis 

 cretion to change the medicine, but apply still drawing 

 medicines, when they should rather intend to cure and cor 

 roborate the part. (a) Good Lord ! madam/ said I, how 

 wisely and aptly can you speak and discern of physic 

 ministered to the body, and consider not that there is the 

 like occasion of physic ministered to the mind : as now in 

 the case of my lord of Essex, your princely word ever 

 was, that you intended ever to reform his mind, and not 

 ruin his fortune : I know well you cannot but think that 

 you have drawn the humour sufficiently ; and therefore it 

 were more than time, and it were but for doubt of morti 

 fying or exulcerating, that you did apply and minister 

 strength and comfort unto him : for these same gradations 

 of yours are fitter to corrupt than correct any mind of 

 greatness. &quot; 

 August, In the latter end of August Essex was summoned to 



160 ; attend at York House, where the Lord Keeper, the Lord 

 Essex hoe- 

 rated. Treasurer, and Secretary signified the Queen s pleasure 



that he should be restored to liberty. He answered that 

 his resolution was to lead a retired life in the country, but 

 solicited them to intercede with her majesty that, before his 

 departure, he might once come into the presence of the 

 Queen, and kiss her hand, that with some contentment, he 

 might betake himself to his solitary life: hopes which, 

 however, seemed not likely to be realized, (d) as the Queen s 

 permission for him to retire into the country was accom 

 panied with the declaration, that, although her majesty 

 was contented that he should be under no guard but of 

 duty and discretion, yet he must in no sort suppose that 



(a) See Advancement of Learning, under the title Cure of Diseases, 

 vol. ii. p. 166. 



(d) Sydney Papers, 213. 



