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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	according_a	court_n	law_n	1,543	5	4.8094	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76741	The felicity of Queen Elizabeth: and her times, with other things; by the Right Honorable Francis Ld Bacon Viscount St Alban.; In felicem memoriam Elizabethae. English	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598.	1651 (1651)	Wing B297; Thomason E1398_2; ESTC R17340	39,913	194

the continuance of that opinion observe 3. points First make not this cessation or peace which is concluded with Tyrone as a service wherein you glory but as a shuffling up of a prosecution which was not very fortunate Next represent not to the Queen any necessity of estate whereby as by a coercion or wrench she should think her self inforced to send you back into Ireland but leave it to her Thirdly seek accesse importune oportune seriously sportingly every way I remember my Lord was willing to hear me but spake very few words and shaked his head sometimes as if he thought I was in the wrong but sure I am he did just contrary in every one of these three points After this during the while since my Lord was committed to my Lord Keepers I came divers times to the Queen as I had used to do about causes of her revenue and law business as is well known by reason of which accesses according to the ordinary charities of Court it was given out that I was one of them that incensed the Queen against my Lord of Essex These speeches I cannot tell nor I will not think that they grew any way from her Majesties own speeches whose memory I will ever honour if they did she is with God and miserum est ab illis laedi de quibus non possis queri But I must give this testimony to my Lord Cecil that one time in his house at the Savoy he dealt with me directly and said to me Cousin I hear it but I beleeve it not that you should do some ill office to my Lord of Essex for my part I am meerly passive and not active in this action and I follow the Q. and that heavily and I lead her not my Lord of Essex is one that in nature I could consent with as well as with any one living the Queen indeed is my Soveraign and I am her creature I may not lose her and the same cours I would wish you to take whereupon I satisfied him how far I was from any such minde And as sometimes it cometh to pass that mens inclinations are opened more in a toy then in a serious matter A little before that time being about the middle of Michaelmas terme her Majesty had a purpose to dine at my lodge at Twicknam Park at which time I had though I profess not to be a Poet prepared a Sonnet directly tending alluding to draw on her Majesties reconcilement to my Lord which I remember also I shewed to a great person and one of my Lords neerest friends who commended it this though it be as I said but a toy yet it shewed plainly in what spirit I proceeded that I was ready not only to do my L. good offices but to publish and declare my self for him and never was so ambitious of any thing in my life time as I was to have carried some token or favour from her Majesty to my Lord using all the art I had both to procure her Majesty to send and my self to be the messenger for as to the former I feared not to alledge to her that this proceeding toward my Lord was a thing towards the people very implausible and therefore wished her Majesty however she did yet to discharge her self of it and to lay it upon others and therefore that she should intermix her proceeding with some immediate graces from her self that the world might take knowledge of her Princely nature and goodness lest it should alienate the hearts of her people from her which I did stand upon knowing wel that if she once relented to send or visit those demonstrations would prove matter of substance for my Lords good And to draw that employment upon my self I advised her Majesty that whensoever God should move her to turn the light of her favours towards my Lord to make signification to him thereof that her Majesty if she did it not in person would at the least use some such mean as might not intitle themselves to any part of the thanks as persons that were thought mighty with her to work her or to bring her about but to use some such as could not be thought but a meer conduct of her own goodness but I could never prevail with her though I am perswaded she saw plainly whereat I levelled but she plainly had me in jealousie that I was not hers intirely but still had inward and deep respects towards my Lord more then stood at that time with her will and pleasure About the same time I remember an answer of mine in a matter which had some affinity with my Lords cause which though it grew from me went after about in others names For her Majesty being mightily incensed with that book which was dedicated to my Lord of Essex being a story of the first year of King Henry the fourth thinking it a seditious prelude to put into the peoples head boldness and faction said She had an opinion that there was treason in it and asked me if I could not finde any places in it that might be drawn within case of treason whereto I answered for treason surely I found none but for fellony very many And when her Majesty hastily asked me wherein I told her the Author had commited very apparent theft for he had taken most of the sentences of Cornelius Tacitus and translated them into English and put them into his text And another time when the Qu. would not be perswaded that it was his writing whose name was to it but that it had some more mischievous Author and said with great indignation that she would have him racked to produce his Author I replyed Nay Madam he is a Doctor never rack his person but rack his stile let him have pen ink and paper and help of books and be enjoyned to continue the Story where it breaketh off and I will undertake by collecting the stiles to judge whether he were the Author or no. But for the main matter sure I am when the Qu. at any time asked mine opinion of my Lords case I ever in one tenor said unto her that they were faults which the Law might terme Contempts because they were the transgression of her particular directions and instructions but then what defence might be made of them in regard of the great interest the person had in her Majesties favour in regard of the greatness of his place and the ampleness of his Commission in regard of the nature of the business being action of war which in common cases cannot be tyed to strictness of instructions in regard of the distance of the place having also a sea between that demands and commands must be subject to winde and weather in regard of a councel of State in Ireland which he had at his back to avow his actions upon and lastly in regard of a good intention that he would alledge for himself which I told her in some religions was held to be a sufficient