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Sir Francis Bacon's MSS relating to Ireland (Author: Francis Bacon)
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Letter of Francis Bacon to Sir John Davies, Attorney General in Ireland, 23 October 1607
Spedding, Letters & Life, IV, 5–6
Mr. Attorney,
I thank you for your letter and the discourse you sent of this new accident8, as things then appeared. I see manifestly the beginning of better or worse: but me thinketh it is first a tender of the better, and worse followeth but upon refusal or default. I would have been glad to see you here: but I hope occasion reserveth our meeting for a vacation, when we may have
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more fruit of conference. To requite your proclamation, which, in my judgement, is wisely and seriously penned, I send you another with us, which happened to be in my hands when yours came. I would be glad to hear often from you, and to be advertised how things pass, whereby to have some occasion to think some good thoughts; though I can do little. At the least it will be a continuance in exercise of our friendship, which on my part remaineth increased by that I hear of your service. And so, in Tormour's haste, I continue
Your very loving friend,
Fr. Bacon
From Gray's Inn, this 23rd of October 1607.