NOTE BUB. 



To the King, thanking his Majesty for his gracious acceptance of his book. 



May it please your Majesty, I cannot express how much comfort I received 

 by your last letter of your own royal hand. I see your majesty is a star, that 

 nath benevolent aspect and gracious influence upon all things, that tend to a 

 general good. 



&quot; Daphni, quid antiques signorum suspicis artus 1 

 Ecce Dionai processit Caesaris astrum ; 

 Astrum, quo segetes afauderent frugibus, et quo 

 Duceret apricis in collibus uva colorem.&quot; 



This work, which is for the bettering of men s bread and wine, which are the 

 characters of temporal blessings and sacraments of eternal, I hope, by God s 

 holy providence, will be ripened by Cassar s star. 



Your majesty shall not only do to myself a singular favour, but to your busi 

 ness a material help, if you will be graciously pleased to open yourself to me in 

 those things, wherein you may be unsatisfied. For though this work, as by 

 position and principle, doth disclaim to be tried by any thing but by experience, 

 and the results of experience in a true way ; yet the sharpness and profoundness 

 of your majesty s judgment ought to be an exception to this general rule ; and 

 your questions, observations, and admonishments, may do infinite good. 



This comfortable beginning makes me hope farther, that your majesty will be 

 aiding to me, in setting men on work for the collecting of a natural and experi 

 mental history ; which is &quot; basis totius negotii,&quot; a thing, which I assure myself 

 will be, from time to time, an excellent recreation unto you ; I say, to that 

 admirable spirit of yours, that delighteth in light ; and I hope well, that even 

 in your times many noble inventions may be discovered for man s use. For 

 who can tell, now this mine of truth is opened, how the veins go ; and what 

 lieth higher, and what lieth lower? But let me trouble your majesty no further 

 at this time. God ever preserve and prosper your majesty. 

 October 19, 1620. 



To the Marquis of Buckingham. 



My very good Lord, I send now only to give his majesty thanks for the 

 singular comfort which I received by his majesty s letter of his own hand, 

 touching my book. And I must also give your lordship of my best thanks, for 

 your letter so kindly and affectionately written. 



I did even now receive your lordship s letter touching the proclamation, and 

 do approve his majesty s judgment and foresight about mine own. Neither 

 would I have thought of inserting matter of state for the vulgar, but that now- 

 a-days there is no vulgar, but all statesmen. But, as his majesty doth excel 

 lently consider, the time of it is not yet proper, I ever rest your Lordship s 

 most obliged friend, and faithful servant, FR. VERULAM, Cane. 



Indorsed In answer to his majesty s directions touching the proclamation 

 for a parliament. 



A Letter from the Lord Chancellor Verulam to the University of Cambridge, 

 upon sending to their public library his Novum Organum, to which this 

 letter written with his own hand is affixed. 



Almas Matri Academic Cantabrigiensi, Cum vester filius sim et alumnus, 

 voluptati mihi erit, partum meum nuper editum vobis in gremium dare: aliter 

 enim velut pro exposito eum haberem. Nee vos moveat, quod via nova sit. 

 Necesse est enim talia per aetatum et seculorum circuitus evenire. Antiquis 

 tamen suus constat honos ; ingenii scilicet : nam fides verbo Dei et experientia 

 tantum debetur. Scientias autem ad experientiam retrahere, non conceditur : 

 at, easdem ab experientia de integro excitare, operosum certe, sed pervium. 

 Deus vobis, et studiis vestris faveat. Filius vester amantissimus, 



Ex /Edibus Eborac. 3 Octob. 1620. FRANC. VERULAM, Cane. (a) 



() Translation by Archbishop Tennison, in Baconiana, 192 : &quot; Seeing I 

 am your son, and your disciple, it will much please me to repose in your bosom 



