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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01003	Sir Francis Bacon his apologie, in certaine imputations concerning the late Earle of Essex VVritten to the right Honorable his very good Lord, the Earle of Deuonshire, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.; Apologie in certaine imputations concerning the late Earle of Essex	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.	1604 (1604)	STC 1111; ESTC S104433	17,982	74

the relating to you the maner of it After the Queene had denied me the Sollicitors place for the which his Lordship had bene a long and earnest sutor on my behalfe it pleased him to come to me from Richmond to Twicknam Parke and brake with me said Maister Bacon the Queene hath denied me yon place for you and hath placed another I know you are the least part of your owne matter but you fare ill because you haue chosen mee for your meane and dependance you haue spent your time and thoughts in my matters I die these were his verie words If I do not somewhat towards your fortune you shall not denie to accept a peece of Land which I will bestow vpon you My answer I remember was that for my fortune it was no great matter but that his Lordships offer made me call to minde what was wont to be said when I was in Fraunce of the Duke of Guise that he was the greatest vsurer in Fraunce because he had turned all his estate into Obligations meaning that he hast left him selfe nothing but onely had bound numbers of persons to him Now my Lord said I I would not haue you imitate his course nor turne your state thus by great giftes into obligations for you will find many bad debters he bad me take no care for that and pressed it wherupon I said My Lord I see I must be your homager and hold land of your gift but do you know the maner of doing homage in law alwaies it is with a sauing of his faith to the King and his other Lords and therefore my Lord said I I can be no more yours then I was and it must be with the auncient sauings and if I grow to be a rich man you will giue me leaue to giue it back to some of your vnrewarded followers But to returne sure I am though I can arrogate nothing to my selfe but that I was a faithfull remembrancer to his Lordship that while I had most credit with him his fortune went on best And yet in two maine points we alwaies directly contradictorily differed which I wil mention to your Lordship because it giueth light to all that followed The one was I euer set this downe that the onely course to be held with the Queene was by obsequiousnesse and obseruance and I remember I would vsually gage cōfidently that if he would take that course constantly and with choice of good particulars to expresse it the Queene would be brought in time to Assuerus question to aske VVhat should be done to the man that the King wold honour meaning that her goodnesse was without limite where there was a true concurrence which I knew in her nature to be true My Lord on the other side had a setled opinion that the Queene could be brought to nothing but by a kind of necessitie and authority and I well remember when by violent courses at any time he had got his will he wold aske me Now Sir whose principles be true and I would againe say to him My Lord these courses be like to hote waters they will helpe at a pang but if you vse thē you shall spoile the stomacke and you shall be faine still to make them stronger and stronger and yet in the end they will lesse their operation with much other varietie wherewith I vsed to touch that string Another point was táhat I alwaies vehemently disswaded him from seeking greatnes by a militarie dependance or by a popular dependance as that which would breed in the Queene iealousie in himselfe presumption and in the State perturbation and I did vsually compare them to Icarus two wings which were ioyned on with waxe and would make him venture to soare too high and then faile him at the height And I would further say vnto him My Lord stand vpon two feet and flie not vpō two wings The two feete are the two kinds of Iustice Commutatiue and Distributiue vse your greatnesse for aduancing of merit and vertue and releeuing wrongs and burdens you shall need no other art or finenesse but he would tell me that opinion came not from my mind but from my robe But it is very true that I that neuer meant to inthral my selfe to my Lord of Essex nor any other man more thē stood with the publike good did though I could little preuaile diuert him by all means possible from courses of the warres and popularitie for I saw plainely the Queene must either liue or die if she liued 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 plaine with him vpon his voyage to the Ilands when I saw euery spring put foorth such actions of charge and prouocation that I said to him My Lord when I came first vnto you I tooke you for a Phisition that desired to cure the diseases of the State but now I doubt you will be like those Phisitions which can be content to keepe their patients low because they would alwaies be in request which plaineresse he neuerthelesse tooke very well as he had an excellent care and was patientissimus veri and assured me the case of the Realme required it and I thinke this speech of mine and the like renewed afterwards pricked him to write that Apologie which is in many mens hands But this difference in two points so maine and materiall bred in processe of time a discontinuance of priuatenesse as it is the manner of men seldom to communicate where they thinke their courses not approued betweene his Lordship and my selfe so as I was not called nor aduised with for some yeare and a halfe before his Lordships going into Ireland as in former time yet neuerthelesse touching his going into Ireland it pleased him expresly and in a set manner to desire mine opinion and counsell At which time I did not onely disswade but protest against his going telling him with as much vehemencie and asseueration as I could that absence in that kind would exulcerate the Queens mind whereby it would not be possible for him to carrie himselfe so as to giue her sufficient contentment nor for her to carie her selfe so as to giue him sufficient countenance which would be ill for her ill for him and ill for the State And because I wold omit no argument I remember I stood also vpon the difficultie of the action setting before him out of Histories that the Irish was such an enemie as the ancient Gaules or Britons or Germaines were and that we saw how the Romans who had such discipline to gouerne their soldiers and such donatiues to encourage thē and the whole world in a maner to leauie them yet when they came to deale with enemies which placed their felicitie onely in libertie and