I thanke you for yo^{r} l^{re} and the discourse you sent of this mere accident, as thinges then appeared. I see manifestly the begynnyng of better or woorse. But me thinketh it is first a tender of the better, and woorse foloweth but vpon refusall or default. I would haue been gladd to see you hear, but I hope occasion restreineth o^{r} meeting for a vacation when we may haue more fruite of conference. To requite yo^{r} proclamacon (w^{ch} in my judgment is wysely and seriously penned) I send you [illegible] w^{h} [illegible] w^{ch} happened to be in my hands when y^{os} came. I would be gladde to hear oft from you and to be advertized how [illegible] passe whereby to haue some occasion to thinke some good thoughts though I can doe lyttell. At least it wilbe a contynuance in exercise of o^r frendshippe w^{ch} on my part remayneth increased by that I hear of yo^{r} service and the good respects I find towards my self. And so in extreme hast I remayne Yo^{r} very [illegible] frend FR. BACON. from Graies Inn this 23th of Oct. 1607. To the R. W. his verie Lovinge frende Sr Iohn Dauys Knight, his Ma^{ties} Atturnye in Irelande. During one of his 'circuits' in Ireland, he met Eleanor, daughter of Lord Audley (afterwards Earl of Castlehaven) and was married to her--though the date has not been traced. Her later years were darkened with insanity of a strangely voluble type. It is to be feared she was an ill "help-meet" for her husband. There is pathos, if also inevitable comedy, in her career--not here to be entered on.[32] [Footnote 32: See Life to be prefixed to Prose Works for quotations from her writings in verse and prose, and for further details.]