"The King's voice," said Bacon, in his report to the House, "was the voice of God in man, the good spirit of God in the mouth of man; I do not say the voice of God and not of man; I am not one of Herod's flatterers; a curse fell upon him that said it, a curse on him that suffered it.

We might say, as was said to Solomon, We are glad, O King, that we give account to you, because you discern what is spoken." The course of this Parliament, in which Bacon was active and prominent, showed the King, probably for the first time, what Bacon was.

The session was not so stormy as some of the later ones; but occasions arose which revealed to the King and to the House of Commons the deeply discordant assumptions and purposes by which each party was influenced, and which brought out Bacon's powers of adjusting difficulties and harmonising claims.

He never wavered in his loyalty to his own House, where it is clear that his authority was great.

But there was no limit to the submission and reverence which he expressed to the King, and, indeed, to his desire to bring about what the King desired, as far as it could be safely done.