he Scotch, and fit to succeed
Salisbury in his manage in that kind; Lord Dunbar, Duke of Lennox,
and Daubiny: secret."

Then, again, of Salisbury--

"Insinuate myself to become privy to my Lord of Salisbury's
estate." "To correspond with Salisbury in a habit of natural but no
ways perilous boldness, and in vivacity, invention, care to cast
and enterprise (but with due caution), for this manner I judge both
in his nature freeth the stands, and in his ends pleaseth him best,
and promiseth more use of me. I judge my standing out, and not
favoured by Northampton, must needs do me good with Salisbury,
especially comparative to the Attorney."

The Attorney Hobart filled the place to which Bacon had so long aspired,
and which he thought, perhaps reasonably, that he could fill much
better. At any rate, one of the points to which he recurs frequently in
his notes is to exhort himself to make his own service a continual
contrast to the Attorney's--"to have in mind and use the Attorney's
weakness," enumerating a list of instances: "Too full of cases and
distinctions. Nibbling solemnly, he distinguisheth but apprehends not;"
"No gift with his pen in proclamations and the like;" and at last he
draws out in a series of epigrams his view of "Hubbard's
disadvantages"--

"Better at shift than at drift.... _Subtilitas sine acrimonia_....
No power with the judge.... He will alter a thing but not mend....
He puts into patents and deeds words not of law but of common sense
and discourse.... Sociable save in profit.... He doth depopulate
mine office; otherwise called inclose.... I never knew any one of
so good a speech with a worse pen." ...

Then in a marginal note--"Solemn goose. Stately, leastwise nodd (?)
crafty. They have made him believe that he is wondrous wise." And,
finally, he draws up a paper of counsels and rules for his own
conduct--"_Custumae aptae ad Individuum_"--which might supply an outline
for an essay on the arts of behaviour proper for a rising official, a
sequel to the biting irony of the essays on _Cunning_ and _Wisdom for a
Man's Self_.

"To furnish my L. of S. with ornaments for public speeches. To make
him think how he should be reverenced by a Lord Chancellor, if I
were; Princelike.

"To prepare him for matters to be handled in Council or before the
King aforehand, and to show him and yield him the frui