Have I given cause, you ask, and yet take a scandal when I have done?
No.

I gave no cause, not so much as Fimbria's complaint against me; for I did 'totum telum corpore recipere,' receive the whole sword into my body.

I patiently bear all, and sensibly feel all that I then received when this scandal was given me.

Nay, more, when the vilest of all indignities are done unto me," etc.

This noble letter, Bacon afterwards, in pleading against Essex, called bold and presumptuous, and derogatory to her majesty.