It may please your Lordship to let me hear from you speedily.

So I continue your Lordship's ever much bounden, "FR.

BACON.
"From Gorhambury, this 16th of July, 1603." But it was not done.

He "obtained his title, but not in a manner to distinguish him.

He was knighted at Whitehall two days before the coronation, but had to share the honour with 300 others." It was not quite true that his "ambition was quenched." For the rest of Cecil's life Cecil was the first man at James's Court; and to the last there was one thing that Bacon would not appear to believe--he did not choose to believe that it was Cecil who kept him back from employment and honour.