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A28378	Resuscitatio, or, Bringing into publick light severall pieces of the works, civil, historical, philosophical, & theological, hitherto sleeping, of the Right Honourable Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount Saint Alban according to the best corrected coppies : together with His Lordships life / by William Rawley ...	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Rawley, William, 1588?-1667.	1657 (1657)	Wing B319; ESTC R17601	372,122	441

If any have lost his first Love If any be neither Hot nor Cold If any have stumbled too fondly at the Threshold in such sort that he cannot sit well that entred ill It is time they return whence they are fallen and confirm the Things that remain Great is the Weight of this Fault Et eorum causâ abhorrebant à Sacr●ficio Domini And For their Cause did Men abhor the Adoration of God But howsoever it be Those which have sought to deface them and cast Contempt upon them are not to be excused It is the precept of Salomo● that the Rulers be not Reproached No not in our Thought But that we draw our very Conceit into a Modest Interpretation of their Doings The Holy Angel would give no Sentence of Blasphemy against the Common Sl●underer but said Increpet te Dominus The Lord Rebuke thee The Apostle Saint Paul though against him that did pollute Sacred Justice with Tyrannous Violence he did justly denounce ●he Judgement of God saying Per●utiet te Dominus The Lord will strike thee yet in saying Paries dealbate he thought he had gone too far and retracted it Whereupon a Learned Father said Ipsum quamvis inane nomen umbram Sacerdotis expavit The ancient Councels and Synodes as is noted by the Ecclesiasticall Story when they deprived any Bishop never recorded the Offence but buried it in perpetuall Silence Only Cham purchased his Curse by revealing his Fathers Disgrace And yet a much gre●ter Fault is it to ascend from their Person to their Calling and draw that in question Many good Fathers spake rigourously and severely of the unworthinesse of Bishops As if presently it did forfeit and cease their Office One saith Sacerdotes nominamur non sumus We are called Priests but Priests we are not Another saith Nisi bonum Opus amplecta●is Episcopus esse non potes Except thou undertake the good work thou canst not be a Bishop Yet they meant nothing less then to move doubt of their Calling or Ordination The Second Occasion of Controversies is the Nature and Humour of some Men. The Church never wanteth a kind of Persons which love the Salutation of Rabbi Master Not in Ceremony or Complement but in an Inward Authority which they seek over Mens Minds in drawing them to depend upon their Opinions and to seek Knowledge at their Lips These Men are the true Successours of Diotrephes the Lover of Preheminence And not Lord Bishops Such Spirits do light upon another sort of Natures which do adhere to these Men Quorum gloria in Obsequio Stiffe Followers and such as zeal mervailously for those whom they have chosen for their Masters This latter sort for the most part are Men of young years and superficiall Understanding Car●ied away with par●iall respects of Persons Or with the Enticing Appearance of Godly Names and Pretences Pauci res ipsas sequuntur plures nomina Rerum plurimi nomina Magistrorum Few follow the things themselves more the names of the Things and most the Names of their Masters About these generall Affections are wreathed and interlaced accidentall and private Emulations and Discontentments All which together break forth into contentions Such as either violate Truth Sobriety or Peace These generalities apply themselves The Vniversities are the Seat or the Continent of this Disease Whence it hath been and is derived into the Rest of ●he Realm There Men will no longer be é numero of the Numeber There do others side themselves before they know their Right Hand from their Left So it is true which is said Transeunt ab Ignorantiâ ad praejudicium They skip from Ignorance to a prejudicate Opinion And never take a sound Ju●gement in their way But as it is well noted Inter Iuvenile Iudicium senile praejudicium omnis veritas corumpitur Through want of years when Men are not indifferent But partiall then their Judgement is weak and unripe And when it groweth to Strength and Ripenesse by that time it is forestalled with such a Number of prejudicate Opinions as it is made unprofitable So as between these two all Truth is corrupted In the mean while the Honourable Names of Sincerity Reformation and Discipline are put in the fore Ward So as Contentions and Evill Zeals cannot be touched except these Holy Things be thought first to be violated But howsoever they shall infer the Sollicitation for the Peace of the Church to proceed from Carnall Sense yet I will conclude ever with the Apostle Paul Cum sit inter vos Zelus Contentio nonne carnales estis While there is amongst you Zeal and Contention are ye not carnall And howsoever they esteem the Compounding of Controversies to savour of Mans Wisedom and Human Pollicy And think themselves led by the Wisedom which is from above yet I say with Saint James Non est ista sapientia de sursum descendens sed Terrena Animalis Diabolica Vbi enim Zelus Contentio ●bi Inconstantia omne opus pravum Of this Inconstancy it is said by a Learned Father Procedere volunt non ad perf●ctionem sed ad permutationem They seek to go forward still not to perfection but ●o change The Third Occasion of Controversies I observe to be an Extream and unlimitted Detestation of some former Heresie or Co●ruption of the Church already acknowledged and convicted This was the Cause that produced the Heresie of Arrius grounded especially upon De●estation of C●ntilism least the Christians should seem by the Assertion of the equall Divinity of our Saviour Christ to approach unto the Acknowledgement of more ●ods then One. The Detestation of the Heresie of Arrius produced that of Sabellius who holding ●or Ex●c●able the Dissimilitude which Arrius pretended in the Trinity fled so far from him as he fell upon that other extremity to deny the Distinction of Pers●ns And to say they were but onely Names of sev●rall Offices and Dispensations Yea most of the Heresies and ●ch●smes of the Church have sprung up of this Root While M●n have made it as it were their S●ale by which to measure the Bounds of the most perfect Religion Taking it by the furth●st distance from the Errour last condemned These be Posthumi Haeresium Filii Heresies that arise out of the Ashes of other Heresies that are extinct and amortized This Manner of Apprehension doth in some degree possesse many in our Times They think it the true Touchstone to try what is good and evill by measuring what is more or lesse opposite to the Institutions of the Church of Rome Be it Ceremony Be it Pollicy or Government yea be it other Institutions of greater Weight That is ever most perfect which is removed most deg●ees from that Church And that is ever polluted and blemished which participateth in any Appearance with it This is a subtile and dangerous Conceit for Men to entertain Apt to delude themselves more apt to delude the People and most apt of all to calumniate their Adversaries This

Countrey and in his own House Concerning which I will give you a Tast onely out of a Letter ●ritten from Italy The Store-House of Refined Witts to the late Earle of Devonshire Then the Lord Candish I will expect the New Essayes of my Lord Chancell●r Bacon As also his History with a great deal of Desire And whatsoever else he shall compose But in Particular of his History I promise my Self a Thing perfect and Singular especially in Henry the Seventh Where he may exercise the Talent of his Divine Understanding This Lord is more and more known And his Books here more and more delighted in And those Men that have more than ordinary Knowledge in Humane Affaires esteem him one of the most capable Spirits of this Age And he is truly such Now his Fame doth not decrease with Dayes since but rather encrease Divers of his Works have been anciently and yet lately translated into other Tongues both Learned and Modern by Forraign Pens Severall Persons of Quality during his Lordships Life crossed the Seas on purpose to gain an Opportunity of Seeing him and Discoursing with him● whereof one carried his Lordships Picture from Head to Foot over with Him into France As a Thing which he foresaw would be much desired there That so they might enjoy the Image of his Person As well as the Images of his Brain his Books Amongst the rest Marquis Fiat A French Nobleman who came Ambassadour into England in the Beginning of Queen Mary Wife to Charles● was taken with an extraordinary Desire of Seeing him For which he made way by a Friend And when he came to him being then through weaknesse confined to his Bed The Marquis saluted him with this High Expression That his Lordship had been ever to Him like the Angels of whom he had often heard And read much of them in Books But he never saw them After which they contracted an intimate Acquaintance And the Marquis did so much revere him That besides his Frequent visits They wrote Letters one to the other under the Titles and Appellations of Father and Son As for his many Salutations by Letters from Forraign Worthies devoted to Learning I forbear to mention them Because that is a Thing common to other Men of Learning or Note together with him But yet in this Matter of his Fame I speak in the Comparative onely and not in the Exclusive For his Reputation is great in his own Nation also Especially amongst those that are of a more Acute and sharper Iudgement Which I will exemplifie but with two Testimonies and no more The Former When his History of King Henry the Seventh was to come forth It was delivered to the old Lord Brooke to be perused by him who when he had dispatched it returned it to the Authour with this Eulogy Commend me to my Lord And bid him take care to get good Paper Inke For the Work is Incomparable The other shall be that of Doctor Samuel Collins late Provost of Kings Colledge in Cambridge A Man of no vulgar Wit who affirmed unto me That when he had read the Book of the Advancement of Learning He found Himself in a case to begin his Studies a new And that he had lost all the Time of his ●tudying before It hath been desired That something should be signified touching his Diet And the Regiment of his Health Of which in regard of his Universall Insight into Nature he may perhaps be to some an Example For his Diet It was rather a plentifull and liberall Diet as his Stomack would bear it then a Restrained Which he also commended in his Book of the History of Life and Death In his younger years he was much given to the Finer and Lighter sort of Meats As of Fowles and such like But afterward when he grew more Iudicious He preferred the stronger Meats such as the Shambles afforded As those Meats which bred the more firm and substantiall Juyces of the Body And lesse Dissipable upon whi●h he would often make his Meal Though he had other Meats upon the Table You may be sure He would not neglect that Himself which He so much extolled in his Writings And that was the Vse of Nitre Whereof he took in the Quantity of about three Grains in thin warm Broath every Morning for thirty years together next before his Death And for Physick he did indeed live Physically but not miserably For he took onely a Maceration of Rhubarb Infused into a Draught of White Wine and Beer mingled together for the Space of half an Hour Once in six or seven Dayes Immediately before his Meal whether Dinner or Supper that it might dry the Body lesse which as he said did carry away frequently the Grosser Humours of the Body And not diminish or carry away any of the Spirits As Sweating doth And this was no Grievous Thing to take As for other Physick in an ordinary way whatsoever hath been vulgarly spoken he took not His Receit for the Gout which did constantly ease him of his Pain within two Hours Is already set down in the End of the Naturall History It may seem the Moon had some Principall Place in the Figure of his Nativity For the Moon was never in her Passion or Eclipsed but he was surprized with a sudden Fit of Fainting And that though he observed not nor took any previous Knowledge of the Eclipse thereof And assoon as the Eclipse ceased he was restored to his former strength again He died on the 9th Day of Aprill in the year 1626● In the early Morning of the Day then celebrated for our Saviours Resurrection In the 66th year of his Age At the Earle of Arundells House in High-gate near London To which Place he casually repaired about a week before God so ordaining that he should dye there Of a Gentle Feaver accidentally accompanied with a great Cold whereby the Defluxion of Rheume fell so plentifully upon his Breast that he died by Suffocation And was buried in Saint Michaels Church at Saint Albans Being the Place designed for his Buriall by his last Will and Testament Both because the Body of his Mother was interred there And because it was the onely Church then remaining within the Precincts of old Verulam Where he hath a Monument erected for him of White Marble By the Care and Gratitude of Sir Thomas Meautys Knight formerly his Lordships Secretary Afterwards Clark of the Kings Honourable Privy Counsell under two Kings Representing his full Pourtraiture in the Posture of studying with an Inscription composed by that Accomplisht Gentleman and Rare Wit Sir Henry Wotton But howsoever his Body was Mortall yet no doubt his Memory and Works will live And will in all probability last as long as the World lasteth In order to which I have endeavoured after my poor Ability to do this Honour to his Lordship by way of conducing to the same SPEECHES IN Parliament STAR-CHAMBER Kings Bench CHANCERY AND OTHER-WHERE Of the Right Honourable FRANCIS BACON

within the last Division agreeable to divers presidents whereof I had the Records ready And concluded that your Majesties Safety and Life and Authority was thus by Law inscansed and quartered And that it was in vain to fortify on Three of the sides and so leave you open on the Fourth It is true he heard me in a grave fashion more than accustomed and took a Pen and took notes of my Divisions And when he read the Presidents and Records would say This you mean falleth within your first or your second Division In the end I expresly demanded his Opinion as that whereto both he and I was enjoyned But he desired me to leave the Presidents with him that he might advise upon them I told him the rest of my Fellows would dispatch their part and I should be behinde with mine which I perswaded my Self your Majesty would impute rather to his Backwardness than my Negligence He said as soon as I should understand that the rest were ready he would not be long after with his Opinion For I. S. your Majesty knoweth the day draweth on And my Lord Chancellers Recovery the Season and his Age promising not to be too hasty I spake with him on Sunday at what time I found him in Bed but his Spirits strong and not spent or wearied And spake wholly of your Business leading me from one Matter to another And wished and seemed to hope that hee might attend the day for I. S. and it were as he said to be his last work to conclude his Services and express his Affection towards your Majesty I presumed to say to him that I knew your Majesty would be exceeding desirous of his being present that day so as that it mought be without prejudice to his continuance But that otherwise your Majestie esteemed a Servant more than a Service especially such a Servant Surely in mine Opinion your Majesty were better put off the day● than want his presence considering the Cause of the putting off is so notorio●s And then the Capital and the Criminal may come together the next Term. I have not been unprofitable in helping to discover and examine within these few dayes a late Patent by Surreption obtained from your Majesty of the greatest Forest in England worth 30000 l. under Colour of a Defective Title for a matter of 400 l. The Person must be named because the Patent must be questioned It is a great Person my Lord of Shrewsbury Or rather as I think a greater than he which is my Lady of Shrewsbury But I humbly pray your Majesty to know this first from my Lord Treasurer who methinks groweth even studious in your Business God preserve your Majesty Your Majesties most humble and devoted Subject and Servant The rather in regard of Mr. Murray's Absence I humbly pray your Majesty to have a little regard to this Letter A Letter to the King touching my Lord Chancellers Amendment and the putting off of J. S. his Cause February 7. 1614. It may please your excellent Majesty MY Lord Chanceller sent for me to speak with me this Morning about 8. of the clock I perceive he hath now that Signum Sanitatis as to feel better his former weakness For it is true I did a little mistrust that it was but a Boutade of Desire and good Spirit when he promised himself strength for Friday though I was wonn and carried with it But now I finde him well inclined to use should I say your Liberty or rather your Interdict signifyed by Mr. Secretary from your Majesty His Lordship shewed me also your own Letter whereof he had told me before but had not shewed it me What shall I say I doe much admire your Goodness for writing such a Letter at such a time He had sent also to my Lord Treasurer to desire him to come to him about that time His Lordship came And not to trouble your Majesty with circumstances both their Lordships concluded my Self present and concurring That it could be no prejudice to your Majesties Service to put off the day for I. S. till the next Term. The rather because there are Seven of your Privy Council which are at least Numerus and part of the Court which are by Infirmity like to be absent That is my Lord Chanceller my Lord Admiral my Lord of Shrewsbury my Lord of Exceter my Lord Zouch my Lord Stanhope and Mr. Chanceller of the Dutchy wherefore they agreed to hold a Council too morrow in the afternoon for that purpose It is true that I was alwayes of Opinion that it was no time lost And I doe think so the rather because I could be content that the Matter of Peacham were first setled and put to a point For there be perchance that would make the Example upon I.S. to stand for all For Peacham I expect some account from my Fellows this day If it should fall out otherwise then I hope it may not be left so Your Majesty in your last Letter very wisely put in a Disjunctive that the Iudges should deliver an Opinion privately either to my Lord Chanceller or to our Selves distributed His Sickness made the later way to be taken But the other may be reserved with some Accommodating when we see the success of the Former I am appointed this day to attend my Lord Treasurer for a Proposition of Raising Profit and Revenew by Infranchising Copyholders I am right glad to see the Patrimonial part of your Revenew well look'd into as well as the Fiscal And I hope it will so be in other parts as well as this God preserve your Majestie Your Majesties most humble and devoted Subject and Servant A Letter to the King of account of Owens Cause c. 11 February 1614. It may please your excellent Majesty MY Self with the rest of your Counsel Learned confered with my Lord Cooke and the rest of the Iudges of the Kings Bench onely being met at my Lords Chamber concerning the business of Owen For although it be true that your Maiesty in your Letter did mention that the same Course might be held in the Taking of Opinions apart in this which was prescribed and used in Peachams Cause yet both my Lords of the Council and we amongst our Selves holding it in a Case so clear not needfull But rathat it would import a diffidence in us and deprive us of the means to debate it with the Iudges if cause were more strongly which is somewhat we thought best rather to use this Form The Iudges desired us to leave the Examinations and Papers with them for some little time to consider which is a thing they use But I conceive there will be no manner of Question made of it My Lord Chief Iustice to shew forwardness as I interpret it shewed us passages of Suarez and others thereby to prove that though your Majesty stood not Excommunicate by particular Sentence yet by the General Bulls of Coena Domini and others you were upon the matter Excommunicate And

Company break it must either be put upon the Patent or upon the Order made by themselves For the Patent I satisfied the Board that there was no Title in it which was not either Verbatim in the Patent of the Old Company Or by special warrant from the Table inserted My Lord Cooke with much respect to me acknowledged but disliked the Old Patent it self and disclaimed his being at the Table when the Additions were allowed But in my Opinion howsoever my Lord Cooke to magnify his Science in Law draweth every thing though sometimes unproperly and unseasonably to that kinde of Question it is not convenient to break the Business upon those Points For considering they were but Clauses that were in the former Patents and in many other Patents of Companies And that the Additions likewise passed the Allowance of the Table it will be but clamoured and perhaps conceived that to quarrel them now is but an Occasion taken And that the Times are changed rather than the Matter But that which preserveth entire your Majesties Honour and the Constancy of your Proceedings is to put the Breach upon their Orders For this Light I gave in my Report which the Table readily apprehended and much approved That if the Table reject their Orders as unlawfull and unjust it doth free you from their Contract For whosoever contracteth or undertaketh any thing is alwayes understood to perform it by lawfull means So as they have plainly abused the State if that which they have undertaken be either impossible or unjust I am bold to present this Consideration to that excellent Faculty of your Majesties Judgement because I think it importeth that future Good which may grow to your Majesty in the close of this Business That the Falling of● be without all Exception God have you in his precious Custody Your Majesties most humble and bounden Subject and Servant A Letter to the King touching the Lord Chancellers Sickness Feb. 9. 1615. It may please your most excellent Majesty I Am glad to understand by Mr. Murray that your Majesty accepteth well of my poor Endeavours in opening unto you the passages of your Service That Business may come the less crude and the more prepared to your Royal Iudgement the perfection whereof as I cannot expect they should satisfy in every particular so I hope through my Assiduity there will result a good Total My Lord Chancellers Sickness falleth out dur● Tempore I have alwaies known him a wise Man and of just Elevation for Monarchy But your Majesties service must not be Mortal And if you leese him as your Majesty hath now of late purchased many Hearts by depressing the Wicked So God doth minister unto you a Counterpart to doe the like by raising the Honest. God evermore preserve your Majesty Your Majesties most humble Subject and bounden Servant A Letter to the King of my Lord Chancellers Amendment and the Difference begun between the Chancery and Kings Bench Feb. 15. 1615. It may please your excellent Majesty I Doe find God be thanked a sensible Amendment in my Lord Chanceller I was with him yesterday in private conference about half an Hour And this day again at such time as he did seal which he endured well almost the space of an Hour though the Vapour of Wax be offensive to him He is free from a Feaver Perfect in his powers of Memory and Speech And not hollow in his Voice nor Look He hath no panting or labouring Respiration Neither are his Coughs dry or weak But whosoever thinketh his Disease is but Melancholy he maketh no true Judgement of it For it is plainly a formed and deep Cough with a Pectoral surcharge So that at times he doth almost Animam agere I forbear to advertise your Majesty of the Care I took to have Commissions in readiness because Mr. Secretary Lake hath let me understand he signifyed as much to your Majesty But I hope there shall be no use for them at this time And as I am glad to advertise your Majesty of the Amendment of your Chancellers Person So I am sorry to accompany it with an Advertisement of the Sickness of your Chancery Court though by the Grace of God that Cure will be much easier than the other It is true I did lately write to your Majesty that for the Matter of the Habeas Corpora which was the third Matter in Law you had given me in charge I did think the Communion in Service between my Lord Chanceller and my Lord Chief Iustice in the great Business of Examination would so joyn them as they would not square at this time But pardon me I humbly pray your Majesty if I have too Reasonable Thoughts And yet that which happened the last day of the Term concerning certain Indictments in the Nature of Premunire preferred into the Kings Bench but not sound Is not so much as is voiced abroad though I must say it is omni tempore Nimium et hoc tempo●e Alienum And therefore I beseech your Ma●esty not to give any Beleeving Ear to Reports but to receive the Truth from me that am your Atturney General and ought to stand indifferent for Iurisdictions of all Courts which Account I cannot give your Majesty now because I was then absent● And some are now absent which are properly and authentically to inform me touching that which passed Neither let this any wayes disjoynt your other Business For there is a time for all things And this very Accide●t may be turned to Good Not that I am of Opinion that that same Cunning Maxim of Separa Impera which sometimes holdeth in Persons can well take place in Iurisdictions But because some good Occasion by this Excess may be taken to settle that which would have been more dangerous if it had gone out by little and little God ever preserve your Majesty Your Majesties most humble Subject and most bounden Servant A Letter to Sir George Villiers touching the Difference between the Court of Chancery and the Kings Bench. Febr. 19. 1615. SIR I received this Morning from you two Letters by the same Bearer The one written before the other after his Majesty had received my last In this Difference between the two Courts of Chancery and Kings Bench For so I had rather take it for this Time than between the Per●ons of my Lord Chanceller and my Lord Chief Iustice I marvail not if Rumour get way of true Relation For I know Fame hath swift wings Specially that which hath black Feathers But within these two dayes For sooner I cannot be ready I will write unto his Majesty both the Narrative truly and my Opinion sincerely Ta●ing much comfort that I serve such a King as hath Gods Property in discerning truly of Mens Hearts I purpose to speak with my Lord Chanceller this day And so to exhibite that Cordial of his Majesties Grace As I hope that other Accident will rather rouze and raise his Spirit than deject him or encline him to

best So referring all to some time that I may attend you I commit you to Gods best preservation To my Lord of Essex My Lord I Am glad your Lordship hath plunged out of your own business Wherein I must commend your Lordship as Xenophon commended the State of his Country which was this That having chosen the worst Form of Government of all others they governed the best in that kinde Hoc Pace et Veniâ tuâ according to my Charter Now as your Lordship is my Witness that I would not trouble you whilst your own Cause was in hand Though that I know that the further from the Term the better the time was to deal ●or me So that being concluded I presume I shall be one of your next Cares And having communicated with my Brother of some course either to persit the first or to make me some other way Or rather by seeming to make me some other way to perfit the first wherewith he agreed to acquaint your Lordship I am desirous for mine own better satisfaction to speak with your Lordship my self Which I had rather were somewhere else than at Court And as soon as your Lordship well assign me to wait on you And so in c. To Sir Robert Cecil SIR YOur Honour knoweth my Manner is though it be not the wisest way yet taking it for the honestest to doe as Alexander did by his Physician In drinking the Medicine and delivering the Advertisement of Suspition So I trust on and yet do not smother what I hear I doe assure you Sir that by a wise Friend of mine and not factious toward your Honour I was told with asseveration that your Honour was bought by Mr. Coventry for 2000. Angels And that you wrought in a contrary spirit to my Lord your Father And he said further that from your Servants from your Lady from some Counsellours that have observed you in my business he knew you wrought under hand against me The truth of which Tale I doe not believe you know the Event will shew and God will right But as I reject this Report though the Strangeness of my Case might make me credulous so I admit a Conceit that the last Messenger my Lord and your self used dealt ill with your Honours And that VVord Speculation which was in the Queens mouth rebounded from him as a Commendation For I am not ignorant of those little Arts. Therefore I pray trust not him again in my matter This was much to write but I think my Fortune will set me at liberty who am weary of asserviling my Self to every Mans charity Thus I c. To Sir John Stanhope SIR YOur good promises sleep which it may seem now no time to awake But that I doe not finde that any general Kalender of Observation of time serveth for the Court And besides if that be done which I hope by this time is done And that other matter shall be done which we wish may be done I hope to my poor Matter the one of these great Matters may clear the way and the other give the occasion And though my Lord Treasurer be absent whose Health neverthelesse will enable him to be sooner at Court than is expected especially if this hard weather too hard to continue shall relent yet we abroad say his Lordships spirit may be there though his person be away Once I take for a good ground that her Majesties Business ought to keep neither Vacation nor Holyday either in the Execution or in the Care and preparation of those whom her Majesty calleth and useth● And therefore I would think no time barred from remembring that with such discretion and respect as appertaineth The Conclusion shall be to put you in minde to maintain that which you have kindly begun according to the Reliaunce I have upon the Sincerity of your Affection and the Soundnesse of your Judgement And so I commend you to Gods preservation To my Lord of Essex It may please your good Lordship I Am very sorry her Majesty should take my Motion to travail in offence But surely under her Majesties Royal Correction it is such an Offence as it should be an offence to the Sun when a Man to avoid the scorching heat thereof flyeth into the shade And your Lordship may ●asily think that having now these twenty years For so long it is and more since I went with Sir Am●as Paulett into Fra●ce from her Majesties royal Hand I made Her Majesties Service the Scope of my life I shall never finde a greater grief than this Relinquere Amorem Primum But since principia Actionum sunt tantùm in nostrâ potestate I hope her Majesty of her Clemency yea and Justice will pardon me and not force me to pine here with Melancholy For though mine Heart be good yet mine Eyes will be sore So as I shall have no pleasure to look abroad And if I should otherwise be affected her Majesty in her Wisdom will but think me an impudent Man that would face out a disgrace Therefore as I have ever found you my good Lord and true Friend so I pray open the matter so to her Majesty as she may discern the necessity of it without adding hard Conceit to her Rej●ction Of which I am sure the latter I nev●r deserved Thus c. To the Lord Treasurer It may please your good Lordship I Am to give you humble T●anks for your favourablr opinion which by Mr. Secretaries report I finde you conceive of me for the obtaining of a good place which some of my honourable Friends have wished unto me Nec Opinanti I will use no reason to perswade your Lordships Mediation but this That your Lordship and my other Frends shall in this begg my life of the Queen For I see well the Barr will be my Beer as I must and will use it rather than my poor Estate or Reputation shall decay But I stand indiff●rent whether God call me or her Majesty Had I that in possession which by your Lordships onely means against the greatest opposition her Majesty graunted me I would never trouble her Majesty but serve her still voluntarily without pay Neither doe I in this more than obey my Friends Conceits as one that would not be wholly wanting to my Self Your Lordships good opinion doth somewhat confirm me as that I take com●ort in above all others Assuring your Lordship that I n●v●r thought so well of my Self for any one thing as that I have found a fitness to my T●inking in my Self to observe and revere● your Vertues For the Continuance whereof in the prolonging of your dayes I will still be your Beadsman And accordingly at this time commend your Lordship to the Divine Protection To Foulk Grevil SIR I Understand of your paines to have visited me For which I thank you My Matter is an endlesse Question I assure you I had said Requiesce anima mea But now I am otherwise put to my psalter Nolite confidere I dare go no