CxllV LIFE OF BACON. 



which would be glad to have you paid at another s cost. 

 Since the time I missed the Solicitor s place, the rather, I 

 think, by your means, I cannot expect that you and I 

 shall ever serve as Attorney and Solicitor together, but 

 either to serve with another, upon your remove, or to step 

 into some other course ; so as I am more free than ever I 

 was from any occasion of unworthy conforming myself to 

 you more than general good manners, or your particular 

 good usage shall provoke : and, if you had not been short 

 sighted in your own fortune, as I think, you might have 

 had more use of me ; but that tide is passed. I write not 

 this, to show my friends what a brave letter I have written 

 to Mr. Attorney; 1 have none of those humours, but that 

 I have written is to a good end : that is, to the more 

 decent carriage of my master s service, and to our particular 

 better understanding one of another. This letter, if it shall 

 be answered by you in deed and not in word, I suppose it 

 will not be worse for us both ; else it is but a few lines lost, 

 which, for a much smaller matter I would have adventured. 

 So this being to yourself, I for my part rest, &c. 



you, who are less than little ; less than the least : and other such strange 

 light terms he gave me, with that insulting, which cannot be expressed. 



&quot; Herewith stirred, yet I said no more but this : Mr. Attorney, do not 

 depress me so far; for I have been your better, and may be again, when it 

 please the Queen. 



&quot; With this he spake, neither I nor himself could tell what, as if he had 

 been born attorney general ; and in the end bade me not meddle with the 

 Queen s business, but with mine own, and that I was unsworn, &c. I 

 told him, sworn or unsworn was all one to an honest man; and that I ever 

 set my service first, and myself second ; and wished to God, that he would 

 do the like. 



&quot; Then he said, it were good to clap a cap. utlegatum upon my back ! 

 To which I only said he could not; and that he was at fault; for he 

 hunted upon an old scent. 



&quot; He gave me a number of disgraceful words besides ; which I answered 

 with silence, and shewing that I was not moved with them.&quot; 



