xlviii PREFACE. 



&quot; known, may further or limit ; my principal pur- 

 &quot; pose being to salute you, and to send you this 

 &quot; token : whereunto I will add my very kind com- 

 &quot; mendations to my lady ; and so commit you both 

 &quot; to God s holy protection.&quot; 



It seems probable that this tract was intended 

 for publication during the life of the king. It 

 says, &quot; Restant felicitates posthumas duas, iis quaa 

 &quot; vivam comitabantur fere celsiores et augustiores : 

 &quot; una successoris, altera memoriae. Nam successo- 

 &quot; rem sortita est eum, qui licet et mascula virtute et 

 &quot; prole, et nova imperil accessione fastigium ejus 

 &quot; excedat et obumbret ; tamen et nomini et honori- 

 &quot; bus ejus faveat, et actis ejus quandam perpetuita- 

 &quot; tern donet : cum nee ex personarum delectu, nee 

 &quot; ex institutorum ordine, quicquam magnopere mu- 

 &quot; taverit : adeo ut raro films parent!, tanto silentio, 

 &quot; atquaa tarn exigua mutatione et perturbatione suc- 

 &quot; cesserit.&quot;* But it was not published during the life 

 of the author ; and the praise of Elizabeth, in the 

 Advancement of Learning, is wholly omitted, and 

 certainly not for its want of beauty, in the treatise 

 &quot; De Augmentis,&quot; published in 1623, where he also 

 omits the passage already cited in this preface, f 

 &quot; Then the reign of a queen matched with a 

 t( foreigner : then of a queen that lived solitary 

 &quot; and unmarried, and yet her government so 

 &quot; masculine that it had greater impression and 



See page 468 of this volume, 

 f Ante page xi. 



