1XXXIV LIFE OF BACON. 



a view only to his own interest. The Queen told me, says 

 Bacon, &quot;that my lord had written her some very dutiful 

 letters, and that she had been moved by them, but when 

 she took it to be the abundance of his heart, she found it 

 to be but a preparative to a suit for the renewing of his 

 farm of sweet wines.&quot; To this complaint Bacon made the 

 following characteristic and ingenious reply : &quot; O Madam, 

 how doth your majesty construe these things, as if these 

 two could not stand well together, which indeed nature 

 hath planted in all creatures. For there are but two sym 

 pathies, the one towards perfection, the other towards pre 

 servation : that to perfection, as the iron tendeth to the 

 loadstone; that to preservation, as the vine will creep to 

 wards a stake or prop that stands by it, not for any love 

 to the stake, but to uphold itself. And therefore, madam, 

 you must distinguish my lord s desire to do you service, is 

 as to his perfection that which he thinks himself to be 

 born for ; whereas his desire to obtain this thing of you, is 

 but for a sustentation.&quot; (t) 



The result, however, was, that hurt by this letter, she 

 indignantly and somewhat coarsely refused his suit, say 

 ing, &quot; that an unruly beast ought to be stinted of his 

 provender.&quot; After a month s suspense, it was notified 

 to him that the patent was confided to trustees for the 

 Queen s use. (y) 

 Essex s In the storm that now gathered round Essex, the real 



October StatC f his mlnd revealed itself &quot; When l ex P ected &amp;gt;&quot; he 

 1600. said, &quot; a harvest, a tempest has arisen to me; if I be want 

 ing to myself, my friends, and my country, it is long of 

 others, not of myself ; let my adversaries triumph, I will not 

 follow the triumphal chariot.&quot; He who had declared his 

 willingness &quot; to wander and eat grass with the beasts of the 



() Apology, vol.vi. p. 2. (y) Camden, 170. Sydney Papers, 206. 





