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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

I declared my self fully according to her minde at that time which could not do my Lord any manner of prejudice I should keep my credit with her ever after whereby to do my Lord service Hereupon the next news that I heard was that we were all sent for again and that her Majesties pleasure was we all should have parts in the business and the Lords falling into distribution of our parts it was allotted to me that I should set forth some undutiful carriages of my Lord in giving occasion and countenance to a seditious Pamphlet as it was termed which was dedicated unto him which was the book before mentioned of K. Henry the fourth Whereupon I replyed to that allotment and said to their Lordships that it was an old matter and had no manner of coherence with the rest of the charge being matters of Ireland and therfore that I having been wronged by bruits before this would expose me to them more and it would be said I gave in evidence mine own tales It was answered again with good shew that because it was considered how I stood tyed to my Lord of Essex therefore that part was thought fittest for me which did him least hurt for that whereas all the rest was matter of charge and accusation this onely was but matter of caveat and admonition Wherewith though I was in mine one minde little satisfied because I knew well a man were better to be charged with some faults then admonished of some others yet the conclusion binding upon the Queens pleasure directly volens nolens I could not avoid that part that was laid upon me which part if in the delivery I did handle not tenderly though no man before me did in so clear tearms free my Lord from all disloyalty as I did that your Lordship knoweth must be ascribed to the superiour duty I did ow to the Queens fame and honour in a publick proceeding and partly to the intention I had to uphold my self in credit and strength with the Queen the better to be able to do my Lord good offices afterwards for assoon as this day was past I lost no time but the very next day following as I remember I attended her Majesty fully resolved to try and put in ure my utmost endeavor so far as I in my weaknes could give furtherance to bring my Lord again speedily into Court and favour and knowing as I supposed at least how the Queen was to be used I thought that to make her conceive that the matter went well then was the way to make her leave off there and I remember well I said to her you have now Madam obtained victory over two things which the greatest Princes in the world cannot at their wills subdue the one is over Fame the other is over a great minde for surely the world is now I hope reasonably well satisfied for my Lord he did shew that humiliation towards your Majesty as I am perswaded he was never in his life time more fit for your favor then he is now therefore if your Majesty will not marre it by lingring but give over at the best and now you have made so good a full point receive him again with tenderness I shall then think that all that is past is for the best Whereat I remember she took exceeding great contentment and did often iterate and put me in minde that she had ever said that her proceedings should be ad reparationem and not adruinam as who saith that now was the time I should well perceive that that saying of hers should prove true And further she willed me to set down in writing all that passed that day I obeyed her commandment and within some few daies brought her again the narration which I did read unto her at 2 several afternoons and when I came to that part that set forth my Lords own answer which was my principal care I do well bear in mind that she was extrordinarily moved with it in kindness and relenting towards my Lord and told me afterwards speaking how well I had expressed my Lords part that she perceived old love would not easily be forgotten wherto I answered suddenly that I hoped she meant that by her self But in conclusion I did advise her that now she had taken a representation of the matter to her self that she would let it go no further for Madam said I the fire blazeth well already what should you tumble it and besides it may please you keep a convenienc with your self in this case for since your express direction was there should be no register nor clarke to take this sentence nor no record or memorial made up of the proceeding why should you now do that popularly which you would not admit to be done judicially Whereupon she did agree that that writing should be suppressed and I think there were not persons that ever saw it But from this time forth during the whole latter end of that summer while the Court was at Nonsuch and Otlands I made it my task and scope to take and give occasions for my Lords reintegration in his fortune which my intention I did also signifie to my Lord assoon as ever he was at his liberty whereby I might without peril of the Queens indignation write to him and having received from his Lordship a courteous and loving acceptation of my good will and indeavours 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 onely and chiefly for that purpose And on the otherside 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 Lordships gift and stile was far better then mine own yet because he required it alledging that by his long restraint he was grown almost a stranger to the Queens present conceipts I was ready to perform it and sure I am that for the space of six weeks or two months it prospered so well as I expected continually his restoring to his attendance And I was never better welcom to the Queen nor more made of then when I spake fullest and boldest for him in which kinde the particulars were exceeding many whereof for an example I will remember to your Lordship one or two as at one time I call to minde her Majesty was speaking of a fellow that undertook to cure or at least to ease my brother of his gout and asked me how it went forwards and I told her Majesty that at the first he received good by it but after in the course of his cure he found himself at a stay or rather worse the Queen said again I will tell you Bacon the error of it the manner of these Physitians and especially these Empericks is to continue one kinde of medicine which at the first

I that never meant to inthral my self to my Lord of Essex nor any other man more then stood with the publick good did though I could little prevail divert him by all means possible from courses of the wars and popularity for I saw plainly the Queen must either live or die if she lived then the times would be as in the declination of an old Prince if she died the times would be as in the beginning of a new and that if his Lordship did rise too fast in these courses the times might be dangerous for him and he for them Nay I remember I was thus plain with him upon his voyage to the Ilands when I saw every spring put forth such actions of charge and provocation that I said to him my Lord when I came first unto you I took you for a Physition that desired to cure the diseases of the State but now I doubt you will be like those Physitians which can be content to keep their Patients low because they would alwayes be in request which plainness he nevertheless took very well as he had an excellent ●ar and was patientissimus veri and assured me the case of the Realm required it and I think this speech of mine and the like renewed afterwards pricked him to write that Apology which is in many mens hands But this difference in two points so main and material bred in process of time a discontinuance of privateness as it is the manner of men feldom to communicate where they think their courses not approved between his Lordship and my self so as I was not called nor advised with for some yeer and a half before his Lordships going into Ireland as in former time yet nevertheless touching his going into Ireland it pleased him expresly and in a set manner to desire mine opinion and counsel At which time I did not onely disswade but protest against his going telling him with as much vehemency and asseveration as I could that absence in that kinde would exulcerate the Queens minde whereby it would not be possible for him to carry himself so as to give her sufficient contentment nor for her to carry her self so as to give him sufficient countenance which would be ill for her ill for him and ill for the State And because I would omit no argument I remember I stood also upon the difficulty of the action setting before him out of Histories that the Irish was such an enemy as the ancient Gaules or Britons or Germanes were and that we saw how the Romans who had such discipline to govern their soldiers and such donatives to encourage them and the whole world in a manner to levy them yet when they came to deal with enemies which placed their felicity onely in liberty and the sharpness of their sword and had the natural and elemental advantages of woods and boggs and hardness of bodies they ever found they had their hands full of them and therefore concluded that going over with such expectation as he did and through the churlishness of the enterprise not like to answer it would mightily diminish his reputation and many other reasons I used so as I am sure I never in any thing in my life time dealt with him in like earnestness by speech by writing and by all the means I could devise For I did as plainly see his overthrow chained as it were by destiny to that journey as it is possible for a man to ground a judgement upon future contingents But my Lord howsoever his ear was open yet his heart and resolution was shut against that advise whereby his ruine might have been prevented After my Lords going I saw then how true a Prophet I was in regard of the evident alteration which naturally succeeded in the Queens mind and thereupon I was still in watch to find the best occasion that in the weakness of my power I could either take or minister to pull him out of the fire if it had been possible and not long after me thought I saw some overture thereof which I apprehended readily a particularity I think be-known to very few and the which I do the rather relate unto your Lordship because I hear it should be talked that while my Lord was in Ireland I revealed some matters against him or I cannot tell what which if it were not a meer slander as the rest is but had any though never so little colour was surely upon this occasion The Queen one day at Nonesuch a little as I remember before Cuffes coming over I attending on her shewed a passionate distast of my Lords proceeding in Ireland as if they were unfortunate without judgement contemptuous and not without some private end of his own and all that might be and was pleased as she spake of it to many that she trusted least so to fall into the like speech with me whereupon I who was still awake and true to my grounds which I thought surest for my Lords good said to this effect Madam I know not the particulars of Estate and I know this that princes actions must have no abrupt periods or conclusions but otherwise I would think that if you had my Lord of Essex here with a white staff in his hand as my Lord of Leicester had and continued him still about you for society to your self and for an honor and ornament to your attendance and Court in the eies of your people and in the eies of forraign Ambassadors then were he in his right element for to discontent him as you do and yet to put arms and power into his hands may be a kinde of temptation to make him prove combersome and unruly And therefore if you would imponere bonum clausulam send for him and satisfie him with honor here neer you if your affairs which as I have said I am not acquainted with will permit it I think were the best way Which course your Lordship knoweth if it had been taken then all had been well and no contempt in my Lords coming over nor continuance of these jealousies which that employment of Ireland bred and my Lord here in his former greatness Well the next news that I heard was that my Lord was came over and that he was committed to his Chamber for leaving Ireland without the Queens licence this was at Nonesuch where as my duty was I come to his Lorship and talked with him privately about a quarter of an hour and he asked mine opinion of the course was taken with him I told him My Lord Nubecula est cito transibit it is but a mist but shal I tel your Lordship it is as mists are if it go upwards it may haps cause a showre if downwards it wil clear up And therefore good my Lo. carry it so as you take away by all means all ombrages and distasts from the Queen especially if I were worthy to advise you as I have been by your self thought and now your question imports

is proper being to draw out the ill humor but after they have not the discretion to change their medicine but apply still drawing medicines when they should rather intend to cure and corroborate the part Good Lord Madam said I how wisely and aptly can you speak and discern of Physick ministred to the body and consider not that there is the like occasion of Physick ministred to the minde as now in the case of my Lord of Essex your Princely word ever was that you intended ever to reform his minde and not ruine his fortune I know well you cannot but think that you have drawn the humor sufficiently and therefore it were more then time and it were but for doubt of mortifying or exulcerating that you did apply and minister strength and comfort unto him for these same gradations of yours are fitter to corrupt then correct any mind of greatness And another time I remember she told me for news that my Lord had written unto her some very dutiful letters and that she had been moved by them and when she took it to be the abundance of the heart she found it to be but a preparative to a suit for the renuing of his farme of sweet wines whereunto I replyed O Madam how doth your Majesty consture these things as if these two could not stand well together which indeed nature hath planted in all creatures For there are but two sympathies the one towards Perfection the other towards Preservation That to Perfection as the Iron con●ēdeth to the Loadstone that to Preservation as the Vine will creep towards a stake or prop that stands by it not for any love to the stake but to uphold it self And therefore Madam you must distinguish my Lords desire to do you service is as to his perfection that which he thinks himself to be born for whereas his desire to obtain this thing of you is but for a sustentation 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 Lords 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 Lords minde to be such as I knew her Majesty would fainest have had it which letters whosoever shall see for they cannot now be retracted or altered being by reason of my brothers or his Lordships servants delivery long since come into diverse hands let him judge especially if he knew the Queen and do remember those times whether they were not the labors of one that sought to bring the Queen about for my Lord of Essex his good The troth is that the issue of all his dealing grew to this that the Queen by some slackness of my Lords as I imagine liked him worse and worse and grew more incensed towards him Then she remembring belike the continual and incessant and confident speeches and courses that I had held on my Lords side became utterly alienated from me and for the space of at least three moneths which was between Michaelmas and New-years tide following would not so much as look on me but turned away from me with express and purpose-like discountenance wheresoever shee saw me and at such time as I desired to speak with her about Law business ever sent me forth very slight refusals insomuch as it is most true that immediately after Newyears tide I desired to speak with her and being admitted to her I dealt with her plainly and said Madam I see you withdraw your favor from me and now I have lost many friends for your sake I shall lose you too you have put me like one of those that the Frenchmen call Enfans perdus that serve on foot before horsmen so have you put me into matters of envy without place or without strength and I know at Chess a pawn before the King is ever much plaid upon a great many love me not because they think I have been against my Lord of Essex and you love me not because you know I have been for him yet will I never repent me that I have dealt in simplicity of heart towards you both without respect of cautions to my self and therefore vivus vidensque pereo If I do break my neck I shall do it in a manner as Master Dorrington did it which walked on the battlements of the Church many daies and took a view survey where he should fall and so Madam said I I am not so simple but that I take a prospect of mine overthrow onely I thought I would tel you so much that you may know that it was faith and not folly that brought me into it so I will pray for you Upon which speeches of mine uttered with some passion it is true her Majesty was exceedingly moved and accumulated a number of kind gratious words upon me and willed me to rest upon this Gratia mea sufficit and a number of other sensible tender words and demonstrations such as more could not be but as touching my Lord of Essex ne verbum quidem Whereupon I departed resting then determined to meddle no more in the matter as that that I saw would overthrow me and not be able to do him any good And thus I made mine own peace with mine own confidence at that time and this was the last time I saw her Majesty before the eight of February which was the day of my Lord of Essex his misfortune after which time for that I perform at the bar in my publick service your Lordship knoweth by the rules of duty that I was to do it honestly and without prevarication but for any putting my self into it I protest before God I never moved neither the Queen nor any person living concerning my being used in the service either of evidence or examination but it was meerly laid upon me with the rest of my fellows And for the time which passed I mean between the arraignment and my Lords suffering I well remember but I was once with the Qu. at what time though I durst not deal directly for my Lord as things then stood yet generally I did both commend her Majesties mercie terming it to her as an excellent balm that did continually distil from her Soveraign hands and made an excellent odour in the senses of her people and not onely so but I took hardiness to extenuate not the fact for that I durst not but the danger telling her that if some base or cruel minded persons had entered into such an action it might have caused much blood and combustion but it appeared well they were such as knew not how to play the Malefactors and some other words which I now omit And as for the rest of