ts of my
care.

"To take notes in tables, when I attend the Council, and sometimes
to move out of a memorial shewed and seen. To have particular
occasions, fit and graceful and continual, to maintain private
speech with every the great persons, and sometimes drawing more
than one together. _Ex imitatione Att._ This specially in public
places, and without care or affectation. At Council table to make
good my L. of Salisb. motions and speeches, and for the rest
sometimes one sometimes another; chiefly his, that is most earnest
and in affection.

"To suppress at once my speaking, with panting and labour of breath
and voice. Not to fall upon the main too sudden, but to induce and
intermingle speech of good fashion. To use at once upon entrance
given of speech, though abrupt, to compose and draw in myself. To
free myself at once from payt. (?) of formality and compliment,
though with some show of carelessness, pride, and rudeness."

(And then follows a long list of matters of business to be attended
to.)

These arts of a court were not new; it was not new for men to observe
them in their neighbours and rivals. What was new was the writing them
down, with deliberate candour, among a man's private memoranda, as
things to be done and with the intention of practising them. This of
itself, it has been suggested, shows that they were unfamiliar and
uncongenial to Bacon; for a man reminds himself of what he is apt to
forget. But a man reminds himself also of what seems to him, at the
moment, most important, and what he lays most stress upon. And it is
clear that these are the rules, rhetorical and ethical, which Bacon laid
down for himself in pursuing the second great object of his life--his
official advancement; and that, whatever we think of them, they were the
means which he deliberately approved.

As long as Salisbury lived, the distrust which had kept Bacon so long in
the shade kept him at a distance from the King's ear, and from influence
on his counsels. Salisbury was the one Englishman in whom the King had
become accustomed to confide, in his own conscious strangeness to
English ways and real dislike and suspicion of them; Salisbury had an
authority which no one else had, both from his relations with James at
the end of Elizabeth's reign, and as the representative of her policy
and the depositary of its traditions; and if he had