276 SIR FRANCIS BACON S APOLOGY. 



sometimes bring to my remembrance the matters : 

 wherein I report me to your honourable judgment, 

 whether you do not see the traces of an honest man: 

 and had I been as well believed either by the queen 

 or by my lord, as I was well heard by them both, 

 both my lord had been fortunate, and so had myself 

 in his fortune. 



To conclude therefore, I humbly pray your lord 

 ship to pardon me for troubling you with this long 

 narration ; and that you will vouchsafe to hold me 

 in your good opinion, till you know I have deserved, 

 or find that I shall deserve the contrary; and so ever 

 -I continue 



At your Lordship s honourable commandments 

 very humbly, 



F.B. 





