And so I commend you to God's goodness.
"Gray's Inn, this 10th of October, 1609." To Bishop Andrewes he sent, also in manuscript, another piece, belonging to the same plan--the deeply impressive treatise called _Visa et Cogitata_--what Francis Bacon had seen of nature and knowledge, and what he had come by meditation to think of what he had seen.

The letter is not less interesting than the last, in respect to the writer's purposes, his manner of writing, and his relations to his correspondent.
"MY VERY GOOD LORD,--Now your Lordship hath been so long in the church and the palace disputing between kings and popes, methinks you should take pleasure to look into the field, and refresh your mind with some matter of philosophy, though that science be now through age waxed a child again, and left to boys and young men; and because you were wont to make me believe you took liking to my writings, I send you some of this vacation's fruits, and thus much more of my mind and purpose.

I hasten not to publish; perishing I would prevent.

And I am forced to respect as well my times as the matter.

For with me it is thus, and I think with all men in my case, if I bind myself to an argument, it loadeth my mind; but if I rid my mind of the present cogitation, it is rather a recreation.
This hath put me into these miscellanies, which I purpose to suppress, if God give me leave to write a just and perfect volume of philosophy, which I go on with, though slowly.