NOTES SS TT V V W W. 



small sentence of despair ; but either I deceive myself, or she was resolved to 

 take it ; and the conclusion was very kind and gracious. Sure as I will one 

 hundred pounds to fifty pounds that you shall be her solicitor, and my friend ; 

 in which mind, and for which mind I commend you to God. From the court 

 this Monday in haste, your true friend to be commanded by you, 



FOULKE GREVILL. 



We cannot tell whether she come to , or stay here. I am much 



absent for want of lodging ; wherein my own man hath only been to blame. 

 Indorsed 17th of June, 1594. 



S S. Life, p. xxxii. 



See an interesting discussion upon this subject, in Hazlitt s essay on this 

 regal character, in his Political Essays. 



TT. Life, p. xxxiii. 



In a letter to Lord Burleigh, he says, When my father was appointed Attorney 

 of the Duchy, arid that he had discharged his duties with great sufficiency : 

 And if her majesty thinketh that she shall make an adventure in using one that 

 is rather a man of study than of practice and experience, surely I may remem 

 ber to have heard that my father, an example, I confess, rather ready than like, 

 was made solicitor of the Augmentation, a court of much business, when he 

 had never practised, and was but twenty-seven years old ; and Mr. Brograve 

 was now in my time called attorney of the duchy, when he had practised little 

 or nothing, and yet hath discharged his place with great sufficiency. 



W. Life, p. xxxiii. 



To Foulk Grevil. 



Sir, My matter is an endless question. I assure you I had said, Requiesce, 

 anima mea : but I now am otherwise put^o my psalter; Nolite conjidere. I 

 dare go no farther. Her majesty had, by set speech, more than once assured 

 me of her intention to call me to her service ; which I could not understand 

 but of the place I had been named to. And now, whether invidus homo hoc 

 fecit ; or whether my matter must be an appendix to my lord of Essex suit ; or 

 whether her majesty, pretending to prove my ability, meaneth but to take 

 advantage of some errors, which like enough, at one time or other, I may com 

 mit ; or what it is ; but her majesty is not ready to dispatch it. And what 

 though the master of the Rolls, and my lord of Essex, and yourself and others, 

 think my case without doubt, yet in the mean time I have a hard condition to 

 stand so, that whatsoever service I do to her majesty, it shall be thought but to 

 be servilium viscatum, lime-twigs and fetches to place myself; and so I shall 

 have envy, not thanks. This is a course to quench all good spirits, and to 

 corrupt every man s nature ; which will, I fear, much hurt her majesty s service 

 in the end. I have been like a piece of stuff bespoken in the shop ; and if her 

 majesty will not take me, it may be the selling by parcels will be more gainful. 

 For to be, as I told you, like a child following a bird, which, when he is 

 nearest flieth away, and lighteth a little before, and then the child after it again, 

 and so in injinitum ; I am weary of it, as also of wearying my good friends: 

 of whom, nevertheless, I hope in one course or other gratefully to deserve. 



W W. Life, p. xxxiv. 



From Bacon s Letter to the Earl of Devonshire. 



And on the other side, I must and will ever acknowledge my lord s love, 

 trust, and favour towards me, last of all his liberality, having infeofed me of 

 land which I sold for eighteen hundred pounds to Master Reynold Nicholas, 

 and I think was more worth, and that at such a time, and with so kind and 

 noble circumstances, as the manner was as much as the matter ; which though 



