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the angels,&quot; said that minister to him : &quot; we hear those 

 beings continually talked of, we believe them superior to 

 mankind, and we never have the consolation to see them.&quot; 

 &quot; Your kindness/ he answered, &quot; may compare me to an 

 angel, but my infirmities tell me that I am a man.&quot; In 

 this interview a friendship originated which continued 

 during their lives, and is recorded in his will, where amongst 

 his legacies to his friends, he says, &quot; I give unto the right 

 honourable my worthy friend, the Marquis Fiatt, late lord 

 ambassador of France, my books of orisons or psalms 

 curiously rhymed.&quot; As a parent he wrote to the marquis, 

 who esteemed it to be the greatest honour conferred 

 upon him to be called his son. He caused his Essays 

 and treatise De Augmentis to be translated into French ; 

 and, with the affectionate enthusiasm of youth, upon his 

 return to France, requested and obtained his portrait, (a) 



Julius His friendship with Sir Julius Cffisar, Master of the 



C*sar. ft ii S; continued to his death. (6) 



(a) Ravvley. 



(6) &quot; Sir Julius Caesar (Master of the Rolls) sent to his lordship in his 

 necessity an hundred pounds for a present.&quot; Aubrey. 



Life of Caesar, p. 31. &quot;To recur to the private life of Sir Julius Caesar; 

 his love of domestic society, his affection for his younger progeny, and the 

 necessity of female superintendence to the economy of an enlarged house 

 hold establishment, combined to induce him, though now somewhat 

 advanced in years, to take a third wife. On the 19th of April, 1615, he 

 was married at the Rolls Chapel to Mrs. Anne Hungate, a widow, of an 

 age not unsuitable to his own. She was a daughter of Henry Wodehouse, 

 of Waxham in Norfolk, Esq. by Anne, one of the daughters of Sir Nicholas 

 Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and had been first married to 

 William Hungate, of East Bradenham in Norfolk, Esq. Her hand was 

 given to Sir Julius Caesar at the nuptial ceremony by her uncle, the great 

 Sir Francis Bacon, then Attorney General, and the friendship wliich had 

 long subsisted between these two eminent persons was strengthened and 

 confirmed by this marriage. He found an asylum in the bosoms of his 

 nephew and niece; composed many of his immortal works in an utter 

 retirement in the house of Sir Julius Caesar, and expired in his arms.&quot; 



