APPROACH OF THE KING. 



submitted to the Earl of Northumberland, for the King s 

 consideration, a proclamation, recommending &quot; the union 

 of England and Scotland ; attention to the sufferings of 



standing, this royal virtue of access, which both nature 

 and judgment have planted in your majesty s mind, as the 

 portal of all the rest, could not of itself, my imperfections 

 considered, have animated me to make oblation of myself 

 immediately to your majesty, had it not been joined with 

 an habit of the like liberty which I enjoyed with my late 

 dear sovereign mistress; a princess happy in all things 

 else, but most happy in such a successor. And yet farther, 

 and more nearly, I was not a little encouraged, not only 

 upon a supposal, that unto your majesty s sacred ear, open 

 to the air of all virtues, there might perhaps have come 

 some small breath of the good memory of my father, so 

 long a principal counsellor in your kingdom; but also a 

 more particular knowledge of the infinite devotion and 

 incessant endeavours, beyond the strength of his body, 

 and the nature of the times, which appeared in my good 

 brother, Mr. Anthony Bacon, towards your majesty s ser 

 vice; and were, on your majesty s part, through your 

 singular benignity, .by many most gracious and lively signi 

 fications and favours accepted and acknowledged, beyond 

 the merit of any thing he could effect : which endeavours 

 and duties, for the most part, were common to myself 

 with him, though by design, as between brethren, dis 

 sembled. And therefore, most high and mighty king, my 

 most dear and dread sovereign lord, since now the corner 

 stone is laid of the mightiest monarchy in Europe; and 

 that God above, who hath ever a hand in bridling the 

 floods and motions both of the seas and of people s hearts, 

 hath by the miraculous and universal consent, the more 

 strange, because it proceedeth from such diversity of 

 causes, in your coming in, given a sign and token of great 

 happiness in the continuance of your reign; I think there 



