 Robert Cecil's motto was "Sero, sed serio", which can be translated as 'late but in earnest'.In poor health and worn out by years of overwork, Robert Cecil, in the spring of 1612, went on a journey to take the waters at Bath in hope of a cure; but he obtained little relief.He started on the journey home but died of cancer, "in great pain and even greater wretchedness of mind", at Marlborough, Wiltshire, on 24 May 1612.