Thus I rest at last
"Your Lordship's faithful friend and servant,
"G.B."
"MY EVER BEST LORD, now better than yourself,--Your Lordship's pen,
or rather pencil, hath pourtrayed towards me such magnanimity and
nobleness and true kindness, as methinketh I see the image of some
ancient virtue, and not anything of these times. It is the line of
my life, and not the lines of my letter, that must express my
thankfulness; wherein if I fail, then God fail me, and make me as
miserable as I think myself at this time happy by this reviver,
through his Majesty's singular clemency, and your incomparable love
and favour. God preserve you, prosper you, and reward you for your
kindness to
"Your raised and infinitely obliged friend and servant,
"Sept. 22, 1617.
FR. BACON, C.S."
Thus he had tried his strength with Buckingham. He had found that this,
"a little parent-like" manner of advising him, and the doctrine that a
true friend "ought rather to go against his mind than his good," was not
what Buckingham expected from him.
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