C LIFE OF BACON. 



unhappy Ireland ; freedom of trade and the suppression of 

 bribery and corruption; with the assurance, that every 

 place and service that was fit for the honour or good of the 

 commonwealth should be filled, and no man s virtue left 

 idle, unemployed, or unrewarded, and every good ordi 

 nance and constitution, for the amendment of the estate 

 and times, be revived and put in execution.&quot; ( d) 



is no subject of your majesty s, which loveth this island, 

 and is not hollow or unworthy, whose heart is not set on 

 fire, not only to bring you peace-offerings, to make you 

 propitious ; but to sacrifice himself a burnt-offering or 

 holocaust to your majesty s service : amongst which number 

 no man s fire shall be more pure and fervent than mine ; 

 but how far forth it shall blaze out, that resteth in your 

 majesty s employment. So, thirsting after the happiness 

 of kissing your royal hand, I continue ever, &c. 1603. 



(d} Sir Francis Bacon to the Earl of Northumberland, concerning a 

 Proclamation upon the King s entry. 



It may please your Lordship, I do hold it a thing formal and neces 

 sary, for the King to forerun his coming, be it never so speedy, with some 

 gracious declaration for the cherishing, entertaining, and preparing of men s 

 affections. For which purpose, I have conceived a draught, it being a 

 thing to me familiar, in my mistress her times, to have used my pen in 

 politic writings of satisfaction. The use of this may be in two sorts : first, 

 properly, if your lordship think convenient to shew the King any such 

 draught, because the veins and pulses of this state cannot but be known 

 here ; which if your lordship should, then I would desire your lordship to 

 withdraw my name, and only signify that you gave some heads of direction 

 of such a matter to one of whose style and pen you had some opinion. 

 The other collateral, that though your lordship make no other use of it, 

 yet it is a kind of portraiture of that which I think worthy to be advised by 

 your lordship to the King, to express himself according to those points 

 which are therein conceived, and perhaps more compendious and signifi 

 cant than if I had set them down in articles. I would have attended your 

 lordship, but for some little physic I took. To-morrow morning I will 

 wait on you. So I ever continue, Sec. FR. BACON. 



See vol. xii. p. 102, and vol. vii. p. 173, for the proclamation, 



