270 SIR FRANCIS BACON S APOLOGY 



unto I replied, &quot; O madam, how doth your majesty 

 &quot; construe these things, as if these two could not 

 &quot; stand well together, which indeed nature hath 

 tl planted in all creatures ! For there are but two 

 ff sympathies, the one towards perfection, the other 

 &quot; towards preservation ; that to perfection, as the 

 iron tendeth to the loadstone ; that to preserva- 

 &quot; tion, as the vine will creep towards a stake or prop 

 &quot; that stands by it ; not for any love to the stake, 

 &quot; but to uphold itself. And therefore, madam, you 

 &quot; must distinguish : my lord s desire to do you ser- 

 &quot; vice is, as to his perfection, that which he thinks 

 &quot; himself to be born for ; whereas his desire to ob- 

 &quot; tain this thing of you, is but for a sustenta- 

 &quot; tion.&quot; 



And not to trouble your lordship with many 

 other particulars like unto these, it was at the self 

 same time that I did draw, with my lord s privity, 

 and by his appointment, two letters, the one written 

 as from my brother, the other as an answer returned 

 from my lord, both to be by me in secret manner 

 shewed to the queen, which it pleased my lord very 

 strangely to mention at the bar ; the scope of which 

 were but to represent and picture forth unto her 

 majesty my lord s mind to be such, as I knew her 

 majesty would fainest have had it : which letters 

 whosoever shall see, for they cannot now be re 

 tracted or altered, being by reason of my brother s 

 or his lordship s servants delivery long since come 

 into divers hands, let him judge, especially if he 

 knew the queen, and do remember those times, whe- 



