I will avouch it; and how deeply I was tempted therein,
your Lordship knoweth best. Your Lordship may do well to think of
your grave as I do of mine; and to beware of hardness of heart. And
as for fair words, it is a wind by which neither your Lordship nor
any man else can sail long. Howsoever, I am the man that shall give
all due respects and reverence to your great place.
"20th June, 1625.
FR. ST. ALBAN."
Bacon always claimed that he was not "vindicative." But considering how
Bishop Williams, when he was Lord Keeper, had charged Bacon with
"knavery" and "deceiving his creditors" in the arrangements about his
fine, it is not a little strange to find that at the end of his life
Bacon had so completely made friends with him that he chose him as the
person to whom he meant to leave his speeches and letters, which he was
"willing should not be lost," and also the charge of superintending two
foundations of L200 a year for Natural Science at the universities. And
the Bishop accepted the charge.
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