268 SIR FRANCIS BACON S APOLOGY 



from this time forth, during the whole latter end of 

 that summer, while the court was at Nonesuch and 

 Oatlands, I made it my task arid scope to take and 

 give occasions for my lord s redintegration in his for 

 tunes : which my intention I did also signify to my 

 lord as soon as ever he was at his liberty ; whereby 

 I might without peril of the queen s indignation 

 write to him : and having received from his lordship 

 a courteous and loving acceptation of my good will 

 and endeavours, I did apply it in all my accesses to 

 the queen, which were very many at that time ; and 

 purposely sought and wrought upon other variable 

 pretences, but only and chiefly for that purpose. 

 And on the other side, I did not forbear to give my 

 lord from time to time faithful advertisement what 

 I found, and what I wished. And I drew for him, 

 by his appointment, some letters to her majesty ; 

 which though I knew well his lordship s gift and stile 

 was far better than mine own, yet, because he re 

 quired it, alleging, that by his long restraint he was 

 grown almost a stranger to the queen s present con 

 ceits, I was ready to perform it : and sure I am, that 

 for the space of six weeks or two months, it pros 

 pered so well, as I expected continually his restoring 

 to his attendance. And I was never better welcome 

 to the queen, nor more made of, than when I spake 

 fullest and boldest for him : in which kind the par 

 ticulars were exceeding many; whereof, for an exam 

 ple, I will remember to your lordship one or two. As 

 at one time, I call to mind, her majesty was speaking 

 of a fellow that undertook to cure, or at least to ease 



