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Show 44 A letter, to tbe King, (Qc. 'A Letter, to the King, of Sute, to fu~ceed, in the _, Arturpey's Place. · -- ~ l 'I It may pleafe your Ma je~y' ' ' · . . . . . YOur grear, and Pnncely, Fa. vours towatds me, 111 Ad\anc1ng tnc to Place; And that, wlrli~h is to ~e, o~ no lcls co~forr, our Majefties benign , . and grllctous Accepcau::m, from ttmc to lime, of my poor Serv1Ces, much aboveth: ~ent, and V:a.lew of I h m· Hath almoft brought me' to an Opm10n, that I may foo • . ' tn cer , ('p ercha' nce,) b'e wan~ing, to ~y Sc l f·, l·f l .not as k·m. g Th j an finde your Majefties Goodnefs·wantmg to me, l.n.any.my reafon~ble, and roodeH: deures. And therefo:e, p~rc;c1vmg, how at th1s time Preferments of Law fly about mmc Ears; To [orne above me, ~nd to fon:ie below me; I did conceive, ¥o~r Majefty may think it, rather a Kinde ofJ?ulne[s_, ?r want ofFauh,than Modefry, if! fhould not come, w1th my Pttcber, to 1acohs well, a~ others doe. VVherein I (hall propound w yo~r Martfty.,rhat wh~ch r~ndeth not [o much, to the RaHing of my Fon~ne, ~s to rh~ fe~ltng of my Minde ; Being fomc~imc:.s affailcclwt h th1s Cogttauo~; That by reafon of my Slownefs '• to fee, . and apprehend f~ddam Occafions; Keeping on o.ne platn Courfe of pamfull Servtce; I may, (infine Dierum,) be m ~anger, to. be neglceted, and forgotten. And if that lbould be, thea were 1t .n~uch better for me, now while I ftand in your Alaj~~ies good O!?m10n, ( though u~worthy ) and have fome little Reputation, m the VVorld, to .g1ve over ~he Courfe I am in, and to tnake proof, t~ doe you Com~ Honour, by 1ny Pen,:either by writing, fome . fatthfull Narrattve, <?f your·Happy, (though notuhtr~duced,J Ttmes; Or by retot?ptling your Laws, (whiCh, I perce1v.e, your MaJefty labourtth with ; And bath in your Head, as Juptter had PaliM;) Or fome od1er . the like work : (For without fon1e Endeavo~r to doc ~ou H?nour, I would not live;) Than to [pend my yYns, and T11n~, 111 this laborious place, wherein I now ferve; If It f11all bedcp~tvcd, of thofe outward Ornarnems, which it was wont to have,. m. re- . fpefr.of an Aifured Succcffi.on, to fomc Place, of n1ore Dtgmty, 1 and Rdl: which f~emoth 11ow, to be an Hope, altogether Cafual if not wholly intercepted. ' VYherefore, (not to hold . your . Majfffy long,) 1i1y humble Sure, to you? is that, than the ~luch, I rhink, I cannot wdl goe lower.;_ ~l! 1ch 1~, that I rna y obtam, your Royal promii~, to fucccc~\, (1f I H:c,) mto the .Atturneys place , whenfoever it tball ~e vo1d =. It bemg, but the Natural, and~Jmmcdiatc Step, and.Rtfc, wh1ch the Place, I ~O\~ hold, hat.h eve:, (in fort) made claun to, and a~mofr never fa1led of. In thts S~t~ , hnakeno Friends to yout Ma;t'fty, ~ut rely upon no other Mott'Lt, J but your Grace; Nor any other Aj]ur~Jnce, but your word; where. of ~ A leccer" to Sir George Carey <Fe , I ' ~ \ of I h~d goo~ E xperience, ·when I .came t~ the ~ol!iciters Place; \---- That 1t was hke, to the Two i.reat Lt,~hts, "YhJch in th eir ·Morions, 45 ar~ never ~ltro;.,rade. So Wlth my beft Prayers,. for your Ma ·e-· • ftus Happmcfs, I rd l:. I ---------- A letter, to Sir ~e~rge Carey~ in F r~nce, upon fending him . · . his Writing, ' In Felicem Memoriam Elizabethz. My rz:er y f<Ooi Lord ; . BE1~g a~ked theQ.t:efi~on, by this Bearer, an old Servant, ofmy . Bro!her.Antbony Bacons, ~hether I" would com1nand him an dung lntO F!ance; And bemg, at better leifure; than I would, i~. regard ofSt~knefs 5 I began. to remem,ber, that neithtr your Bufine[ s, nor mwe, ( thol:lgh great, and continual,) can be, upon an an exaa account, any JUil: Occafron, why fo mu~h good will , as hath paifed between us, fhould be fo much dtkontinued as ' hath been. And, therefore, becaufe one mufi becrin I chu: 1 crhc . ~o provok.e, Y<?ur Remembrance of .tUe, by a Leccg: And chi~k;. . mg to fit It, w~th f01newhat, .befide? Salutations, it came ro my , Mmde, that thts bfi Summer Vacauoo, by occafion of a FaEliom · Book, that endeavoured to verefy, MiferaFtmina, (.The Addition ?fthe Popes Bu!l,) upo_n Q..ueenE~izabeth, I did write, a few Lines, tn her Memonal ; whtch l thought, you would be plea[ed to rear · · both ~or the Argument; And becau[c, y0u were wont to bea; Affeet1on,t_omy Penn. Verum, ut aliud ex alia, if it came h~ndfom-· ly ~o pafs, I ~ould be glad, the Prejident de* Thou, ( who hath . wrn:en an J!tffory, as you know, of that Fame, and Diligence,) f~w 1t: Chtefly, ~eca?fe I know not, whethc=.:: it may not fervc h.tm, for [orne ufc_; 10 hts Sto1y: whetein, I would be glad, he did nght to the Truth, and to the.Memory,?f that Lady, as I perceive, by that he hath already wntten, bets well enclined to doe I woul~ be glad alfo, it we~e fome Occa.fion, (fuch as Abfcncc ~ay penntt,J of fome Acguamtance, or tnutuai Notice_,. between us. For though he ~a~h, many wayes, the precedence, (chiefly in w?rrh,) yet dus 1s common to us both, that weferve our So'L·erat! f.ns, 111 places of Law;, eminent : And not our Selves oncly btlt our F_tztbers, did fo before us : And lafHy~ that both of tis 'love Le~rn~n:<, a~d Liberal Sciences, which was ever, a .Bond of F;iend. .fhtp, 1n the grearefi: Difiance, of Places. Blit of this, I make no fur~hc·r Requcfi,_ than your. o.ccafions; .an~ Refpeets, ( to me unknown,) may further, or ltm1t; My PnnC!pal Purpofe bein . to falute you, and to fend you this Token. VVltereunto I will ad~~ my v<fry kinde Commcnd~tions; to my Lady; And fo cotnmit yott both, to Gods Holy Protcet10n. . I A * Tbaanw~ |