A
FORME
OF
WRITING
Letters
.
Excuse
for
seldome
writing
,
with
protestation
of
sincere
affection
and
readie
seruice
.
SIR
,
The
continuall
emploiment
of
my
affaires
will
not
permit
me
to
write
oftner
vnto
you
:
Howbeit
you
may
be
assured
,
whensoeuer
you
haue
occasion
to
vse
my
seruice
,
they
shall
not
so
ouer-ruls
me
.
For
my
affection
to
you
is
no
lesse
then
your
vertue
,
and
the
many
offices
of
kindnes
which
heretofore
you
haue
done
me
,
do
require
.
Neither
is
this
affection
of
mine
placed
in
the
outward
complement
of
words
,
but
in
the
interiour
of
my
heart
,
where
,
though
it
seeme
to
lie
hid
and
concealed
,
yet
shall
it
be
sure
to
shew
it selfe
at
al
times
when
any
point
appertaining
either
to
your
profit
or
honour
shall
come
in
question
.
And
this
your
experience
shall
vndoubtedly
make
good
vpon
euerie
occasion
wherein
I
may
be
so
much
fauoured
of
fortune
as
to
be
made
apt
for
your
vse
.
In
the
meane
time
I
remaine
,
Wholly
at
your
commandement
.
Recommendation
of
a
woorthy
person
,
to
the
acquaintance
and
assistance
of
some
speciall
friend
.
SIr
:
My
purpose
is
not
by
any
long
or
artificiall
letter
,
to
violate
the
lawes
of
our
ancient
and
perfect
friendship
,
nor
offer
wrong
to
your
curtesie
and
singular
iudgement
in
the
commendation
of
this
friend
M.
P.
who
being
a
Gentleman
of
sorte
,
and
of
such
parts
,
that
all
that
know
him
are
induced
not
only
to
loue
,
but
to
honour
him
,
it
shall
suffice
mee
to
say
he
is
my
friend
,
and
worthy
to
be
yours
,
the
rest
you
will
finde
in
him
your selfe
,
beeing
well
assured
that
hauing
once
knowne
him
,
his
acquaintance
will
bee
very
déere
vnto
you
.
He
comes
to
towne
about
certaine
of
his
affaires
,
wherein
he
shall
haue
néede
of
your
counsell
and
fauor
:
and
I
cannot
doubt
,
that
either
you
will
neglect
the
goodnes
of
your
owne
disposition
,
or
his
merit
,
not
so
much
for
that
I
entreat
it
,
as
because
your
vertue
perswades
it
,
and
his
requires
it
.
I
shall
be
very
glad
to
vnderstand
that
hee
may
finde
you
a
liberall
dispenser
of
these
offices
,
and
you
him
a
thankfull
and
woorthy
receiuer
of
them
.
And
I
thinke
not
but
you
will
as
much
acknowledge
vnto
me
the
notice
I
haue
giuen
you
of
such
a
gentleman
,
together
with
the
meanes
to
do
him
pleasure
,
as
he
the
entrance
I
haue
made
him
into
the
possession
of
your
friendship
.
Loue
one
another
then
(
as
I
know
you
will
)
and
in
your
loue
reserue
mée
such
place
as
I
hope
I
deserue
,
and
doe
very
much
desire
.
A
prettie
preuention
of
excuse
for
seldome
writing
:
concluding
with
friendly
complement
.
COsen
,
it
imports
not
so
much
(
as
some
say
)
that
friends
which
haue
alwaies
made
exchange
of
euery
good
office
of
loue
,
should
be
tyed
to
a
continuall
entercourse
of
letters
.
For
report
that
takes
account
of
al
things
carries
from
one
to
another
newes
enough
of
both
.
And
for
proofe
of
it
,
I
am
perswaded
that
ere
it
be
long
,
you
will
vnderstand
by
it
of
all
that
I
doe
,
as
by
the
same
meane
I
am
oftentimes
acquainted
with
your
courses
:
so
that
it
is
as
good
as
a
writing
to
vs
with
letters
,
wherein
we
may
take
no
lesse
pleasure
,
then
the
eye
doth
in
picture
:
forasmuch
as
rumor
is
nothing
else
but
an
open
letter
where
euery
man
may
reade
what
him
list
.
Wherefore
neuer
go
about
to
excuse
your selfe
vnto
mee
of
that
,
whereof
for
my
part
I
neuer
meane
to
excuse
my selfe
vnto
you
:
but
continue
me
in
your
memorie
with
this
opinion
,
that
you
haue
as
much
power
ouer
mée
and
my
best
meanes
,
as
ouer
any
of
your
owne
:
neither
is
it
with
bare
offers
,
or
the
common
sacrifices
of
a
good
will
,
that
I
desire
you
should
be
satisfied
:
for
I
am
of
the
religion
that
makes
a
nullitie
of
faith
without
workes
,
and
therefore
bee
assured
to
finde
mee
much
better
then
my
word
in
all
your
occasions
:
to
the
experience
whereof
I
referre
you
,
and
my selfe
to
be
Alwaies
at
your
seruice
.
To
importune
the
Intercession
of
one
friend
toward
another
,
for
dispatch
in
a
money
matter
,
or
other
case
of
importance
.
SIr
,
I
may
iustly
vaunt
,
that
I
carrie
a
minde
more
apt
to
giue
then
to
take
.
But
God
be
thanked
and
my
fortune
,
I
haue
often
times
cause
to
aske
,
but
very
seldome
power
to
doe
a
pleasure
.
And
I
reioice
more
when
I
haue
meanes
to
gratifie
my
friend
,
then
I
grieue
when
I
am
to
importune
them
.
It
may
bée
now
you
may
thinke
this
is
some
preamble
of
necessitie
.
I
am
contented
you
should
take
it
so
.
M.
Treasurer
,
though
my
pension
hath
béene
due
a
month
and
more
,
saith
he
cannot
pay
me
without
an
expresse
commandement
from
my
Lo.
and
that
also
he
hath
no
mony
.
Now
I
that
haue
more
occasions
vpon
my
backe
then
crownes
in
my
purse
,
doe
appeale
from
this
excuse
,
and
making
you
the
Iudge
of
it
,
doe
earnestly
pray
,
nay
coniure
you
,
by
that
courtesie
which
yet
hath
neuer
failed
mée
in
my
néed
,
not
to
suffer
sentence
to
passe
against
me
:
but
as
a
fauour
altogether
deriued
from
the
goodnesse
of
your
disposition
,
let
my
occasions
through
your
interposure
,
finde
such
supply
as
their
present
extremity
require
.
And
at
any
hand
,
I
beséech
you
,
so
deale
,
that
the
Treasurer
may
not
say
he
hath
no
money
:
for
that
would
prooue
a
feauer
to
him
,
and
a
plague
to
me
:
against
the
which
hoping
to
receiue
a
preseruatiue
in
your
returne
héereunto
I
leaue
you
to
the
composing
of
it
,
and
my selfe
Very
desirous
in
euery
thing
to
serue
you
.
A
curteous
offer
,
and
kind
acceptance
of
friendly
Offices
.
WIth
more
Honour
,
and
by
a
more
worthy
person
,
you
might
haue
presented
your
letters
vnto
my
Lord
:
but
not
by
any
that
with
more
affection
and
desire
would
vndertake
the
office
then
my selfe
.
And
that
not
onely
for
your
satisfaction
(
the
which
yet
I
especially
regard
)
but
also
for
mine
owne
content
,
it
being
greatly
to
my
reputation
that
a
Gentleman
of
such
worth
and
estéem
as
your selfe
,
should
make
choice
of
me
for
so
good
an
employment
.
I
very
much
thanke
M.
C.
for
giuing
your
memory
that
addresse
,
and
mée
the
meanes
to
doe
you
seruice
,
if
that
may
be
caled
seruice
which
redounds
to
my
credit
.
Thursdaie
next
my
Lord
will
be
vpon
returne
,
and
then
with
the
best
commodity
I
will
performe
what
it
hath
pleased
you
to
command
,
and
of
all
accordingly
aduertise
you
.
In
euerie
other
occasion
for
your
seruice
,
I
humbly
beseech
you
not
to
spare
mee
,
to
the
end
that
by
the
way
of
your
commandement
,
I
may
get
out
of
these
bonds
wherin
I
stand
so
obliged
vnto
you
,
as
well
for
diuers
other
fauours
,
as
especiallie
for
this
you
presentlie
doe
me
.
An
earnest
expostulation
of
answer
to
letters
long
omitted
.
SIr
,
I
wrote
twice
vnto
you
by
a
young
man
of
this
place
,
and
it
is
so
long
agoe
that
I
am
almost
out
of
hope
of
answer
:
neuerthelesse
if
he
be
not
dead
by
the
way
,
which
God
forbid
,
or
that
you
bee
in
health
,
as
I
much
desire
,
and
stil
retaine
the
same
opinion
of
mee
my
friendship
deserues
,
let
me
entreat
you
to
rid
me
of
this
feare
,
which
is
much
increased
by
the
comming
of
this
messenger
,
without
letters
from
you
.
For
though
I
were
not
at
home
,
you
might
not
thinke
me
so
far
,
or
so
concealed
,
but
that
your
letters
would
haue
found
mee
out
.
I
wrote
vnto
you
then
at
large
of
the
greatnes
of
my
businesse
,
and
what
resolution
I
had
taken
,
I
will
not
trouble
you
therefore
with
any
repetition
,
but
onely
now
desire
you
to
consider
that
new
friendship
is
not
to
be
preferred
to
the
surety
of
olde
,
which
like
olde
wines
are
euery
way
better
than
new
.
For
mine
owne
part
,
I
loue
you
in
the
fame
degrée
with
my selfe
,
and
in
such
manner
,
that
I
desire
nothing
more
then
to
be
acceptable
vnto
you
,
I
hope
you
are
so
enclined
towards
me
:
otherwise
I
should
doubt
that
not
finding
me
of
ability
to
giue
you
any
promise
of
profit
,
your
frendship
is
therefore
decayed
:
which
would
proue
an
incongruity
of
discretion
▪
and
offence
of
iudgement
.
But
not
fearing
that
euer
you
will
fall
into
any
such
error
,
I
commit
you
to
a
returne
,
and
my selfe
to
an
expectation
of
your
answere
.
A
complement
of
Wants
with
vehement
solicitation
of
a
friend
to
get
in
debts
by
faire
means
(
if
it
may
bee
)
or
by
foule
rather
then
faile
.
GOOD
Nephew
,
I
know
I
should
very
much
wrong
your
loue
in
recommending
my
affaires
vnto
you
,
but
necessity
which
cannot
brooke
delay
,
compels
me
vnto
it
.
I
am
altogether
without
money
,
and
many
things
are
wanting
in
my
house
:
now
iudge
whether
I
haue
not
reason
to
presse
you
:
with
some
importunity
for
the
getting
in
of
such
as
are
there
owing
mee
.
Those
good
debtors
of
mine
,
especially
the
party
you
wot
of
,
are
like
dul●…ades
,
that
will
not
stir
a
foot
without
spurring
.
Wherefore
,
seeing
that
both
my
occasions
,
and
the
slacknes
of
their
nature
require
it
,
I
pray
you
egge
them
forward
,
and
if
the
spurre
will
not
serue
,
lay
them
on
and
spare
not
,
you
must
remember
that
the
end
of
this
moneth
will
be
the
end
of
your
power
,
and
my
hopes
.
For
if
you
with
all
the
loue
you
beare
me
,
together
with
the
meanes
&
desire
you
haue
to
doe
me
pleasure
,
cannot
bring
these
businesses
to
any
good
passe
,
what
should
I
expect
from
those
whom
héereafter
I
must
employ
that
shall
haue
little
ability
and
happily
lesse
will
.
The
gentleman
you
mentioned
in
your
last
,
I
haue
not
yet
séene
,
neither
doe
I
thinke
his
sight
wil
bring
me
more
commoditity
then
pleasure
,
considering
hee
is
a
fellow
that
promiseth
mountaines
,
but
neuer
performs
any
thing
:
and
in
troth
I
know
not
what
to
say
to
him
,
for
I
finde
such
a
distanes
betwéene
his
words
and
works
,
that
now
I
begin
to
hope
neuer
to
hope
on
him
more
.
I
wil
trouble
you
no
farther
but
onely
to
put
M.
G.
in
minde
of
my
suite
,
to
the
end
his
promises
may
bring
foorth
effects
like
themselues
;
and
so
very
timelie
I
commit
you
to
God
.
A
short
quarrell
of
vnkindnes
for
not
writing
:
concluded
in
a
vow
of
perpetuall
Amitie
.
SIr
,
it
a
long
possession
with
you
were
turnd
into
custom
,
I
should
accuse
you
:
for
suffering
one
of
your
folkes
to
come
hither
with
empty
hands
.
But
the
trueth
is
,
though
I
am
sorry
for
that
I
haue
receiued
no
letters
from
you
,
yet
am
I
not
so
sorry
for
that
default
,
as
in
that
it
is
a
certaine
signe
vnto
mee
that
as
yet
you
haue
not
thought
vpon
your
returne
because
wee
neuer
receiue
letter
from
you
,
but
when
you
are
vpon
the
point
of
your
comming
hither
.
Howsoeuer
,
be
assured
that
neither
your
letters
nor
the
want
of
them
shall
giue
any
encrease
or
diminution
to
that
tespect
and
loue
I
beare
you
,
hauing
alwaies
made
this
a
firme
determination
with
my selfe
,
to
be
still
the
same
I
euer
haue
béene
and
am
vnto
you
,
I
meane
your
Humble
seruant
and
friend
.
A
thankfull
acknowledgement
of
kindnesses
receiued
:
and
well
entertaining
of
a
seruant
recommended
.
GOOD
Cosen
,
not
being
able
in
better
manner
to
answer
the
greatnes
of
the
obligation
,
wherin
I
stand
engaged
vnto
you
for
the
good
remembrance
it
pleaseth
you
alwaies
to
haue
of
me
,
I
must
entreat
you
to
rest
contented
with
an
infinitie
of
thankes
I
presently
send
you
,
vntill
such
time
as
occasion
shall
furnish
mée
with
meanes
to
make
you
a
more
worthy
satisfaction
.
I
am
very
sorry
my
fortunes
are
worse
then
competent
,
and
that
for
diuerse
reasons
,
among
the
which
I
account
it
not
the
least
that
I
cannot
make
prouision
correspondent
to
the
merit
of
the
young
man
you
recommended
vnto
me
.
I
know
not
what
his
entertainement
hath
béene
otherwhere
,
neuerthelesse
if
he
be
as
you
say
,
I
will
straine
my selfe
in
cutting
off
some
lesse
considerable
charge
to
giue
him
his
demand
.
But
before
we
procéede
any
farther
,
I
would
willingly
haue
him
send
mee
an
essay
of
his
hand
,
to
the
end
that
he
being
sure
of
his
wages
,
and
I
of
the
qualitie
of
his
seruice
,
both
of
vs
may
remaine
satisfied
,
for
touching
the
rest
I
wholy
referre
me
to
your
iudgment
:
so
with
all
affection
I
commend
mée
vnto
you
.
A
gratefull
acknowledgement
of
kind
Offices
towards
ones
Sonne
,
with
request
to
continue
the
same
.
SIr
,
I
am
to
giue
you
many
thanks
for
the
fauours
it
hath
pleased
you
to
shew
my
sonne
.
This
is
not
the
first
kindenesse
I
haue
recetued
from
you
and
yours
,
neither
was
my
gallant
worthy
of
it
,
considering
his
fault
.
But
you
haue
béene
vnto
him
as
a
Psacos
in
the
middest
of
a
darkenesse
to
saue
him
from
the
Shipwracke
,
which
without
you
,
he
had
assuredly
suffered
.
I
know
not
what
will
be
the
issue
of
it
,
pray
God
your
prognostication
may
proue
true
.
I
haue
entreated
.
M.
P.
to
ioine
with
you
,
and
supply
my
want
of
presence
in
exhortations
.
I
haue
also
desired
.
M.
F.
to
take
him
into
his
house
,
and
I
hope
he
will
not
denie
mée
.
The
form
of
his
voyage
hath
much
displesed
me
:
it
may
be
God
will
turn
it
all
to
the
best
.
But
to
tell
you
,
what
I
think
,
nothing
surely
can
be
truer
than
that
which
Tertullian
saith
to
his
wife
.
That
the
pleasure
which
wee
take
in
our
children
is
full
of
anguish
:
neither
is
it
without
cause
that
Saint
Ierome
hath
discoursed
very
much
in
one
of
his
epistles
,
without
any
certaine
resolution
taken
thereupon
,
whether
of
the
two
were
most
expedient
,
either
to
marry
or
not
to
marry
.
For
my
part
I
beléeue
this
question
may
be
concluded
by
that
sentence
of
Martiall
.
For
doubtlesse
hée
that
hath
no
children
takes
not
so
much
pleasure
as
he
that
hath
:
but
withall
hee
endures
not
that
trouble
and
vexation
of
mind
the
other
doth
.
A
briefe
recommendation
of
a
Friend
.
SIr
,
I
should
rather
merit
reproch
then
reputation
,
to
recommend
vnto
you
the
affaires
of
M.
G.
the
present
bearer
.
For
to
his
knowledge
your
bounty
is
such
,
that
it
extendeth
euen
to
those
you
neuer
sawe
.
I
leaue
you
then
to
imagin
what
assurance
hee
may
haue
of
it
that
hath
known
you
so
long
,
and
that
by
his
own
vertues
sufficiently
commends
himselfe
,
and
that
is
also
commended
vnto
you
by
one
of
your
most
affectionate
frends
.
Touching
the
request
he
shall
offer
for
my
cause
,
I
will
not
presse
you
much
in
it
,
beeing
assured
you
wil
not
do
your selfe
that
wrong
to
deny
me
:
for
considering
that
by
our
ancient
friendship
we
two
are
but
as
one
,
the
refusall
you
should
make
me
would
but
shew
the
little
regard
you
carry
vnto
your selfe
.
And
so
very
kindly
for
this
time
I
take
my
leaue
.
An
acknowledgement
of
curtesies
vndeserued
.
I
Receiue
no
letter
from
M.
I.
that
is
not
accompanied
with
an
expresse
and
singular
mention
of
the
many
good
Offices
you
continually
doe
for
me
,
which
altogether
procéeds
from
the
goodnes
of
your
owne
disposition
without
any
merit
at
all
of
mine
,
and
I
were
worthy
to
be
ranked
in
the
number
of
the
most
ingratefull
that
euer
were
,
if
at
the
least
I
did
not
acknowledge
it
by
letters
,
vntill
such
time
as
I
may
méet
with
some
happy
occasion
to
deserue
it
better
:
wherein
I
writ
to
employ
my selfe
with
so
good
a
will
and
affection
that
you
shall
neuer
repent
any
pleasure
you
haue
done
vnto
him
,
that
desires
nothing
more
then
to
appeare
how
much
he
is
Truely
your
friend
.
A
mild
taxation
for
not
writing
,
and
for
some
seeming
negligence
in
prosecuting
of
a
businesse
.
SIr
,
your
slacknes
rather
deserueth
blame
then
excuse
in
my
behalfe
,
and
I
am
glad
you
are
fallen
into
the
same
error
whereof
you
haue
so
often
accused
me
.
Your
letters
at
all
times
would
be
very
welcome
,
but
much
more
now
being
so
desirous
to
vnderstand
what
successe
hath
followed
my
kinsmans
businesse
,
which
not
long
since
with
such
care
I
recommended
vnto
you
.
I
cannot
doubt
that
you
haue
forgotten
him
,
the
matter
concerning
him
so
much
,
and
hee
a
man
so
vnworthy
and
vnfit
to
suffer
a
neglect
:
besides
I
haue
many
times
heard
you
say
that
an
iniury
in
that
kind
is
a
cause
iust
and
sufficient
enough
to
dissolue
all
friendship
.
But
to
come
againe
to
my
first
quarrell
,
I
know
if
you
should
be
called
in
question
before
the
God
of
respect
,
for
all
your
eloquence
you
would
be
condēnedeither
for
a
negligent
or
an
inconsiderate
friend
.
Neuerthelesse
séeing
you
haue
had
no
good
opportunity
to
write
,
I
pardon
this
silence
,
and
as
one
that
holds
you
deare
,
will
content
my selfe
with
your
best
leisure
,
and
conueniencie
.
I
make
no
question
but
that
you
and
the
rest
of
our
friends
there
looke
for
some
great
intelligence
at
my
hands
,
but
I
am
not
able
to
satisfie
you
with
the
least
occurrence
of
note
.
For
matters
of
the
state
lye
so
déep
buried
in
the
graue
of
secrecy
,
that
no
man
can
come
to
haue
a
sight
of
them
but
with
the
eye
of
reason
,
which
iudgeth
wel
enough
of
that
which
should
bee
,
but
not
of
that
which
shall
be
.
Wherefore
you
must
be
therewith
contented
vntill
the
rest
shall
come
to
light
.
And
so
I
pray
you
continue
me
in
your
fauor
,
whereunto
with
all
affection
I
very
humbly
commend
my selfe
.
A
witty
excuse
for
long
intermission
of
writing
.
SIr
,
I
could
fetch
some
color
of
excuse
for
this
long
intermission
of
writing
,
from
the
many
affaires
wherein
I
am
continually
conuersant
:
but
it
would
be
neither
worthy
your
acceptance
,
nor
my
affection
.
For
there
is
no
employment
either
of
body
or
minde
,
that
should
interrupt
any
office
appertaining
to
your
pleasure
,
or
the
satisfaction
of
my
dutie
.
Wherefore
leauing
this
excuse
which
would
bee
more
honest
then
iust
,
I
will
séeke
to
cléere
my selfe
with
the
plaine
truth
,
and
fréely
tell
you
that
I
haue
not
written
all
this
while
because
I
had
nothing
to
write
and
that
I
thought
letters
were
neither
necessary
for
my
occasion
,
nor
your
contentment
.
If
I
had
séen
that
to
substantiate
our
auncient
friendship
there
had
héene
neede
of
such
triuiall
complements
.
I
should
haue
thought
it
had
beene
grounded
on
a
lesse
firme
and
weaker
foundation
then
it
is
That
vertuous
and
honest
disposition
which
euen
from
our
youth
and
first
acquaintance
I
alwaies
found
in
you
,
hath
knit
our
affections
so
fast
together
,
that
not
the
strength
of
any
enemy
,
enuie
,
or
other
worldly
accidents
whatsoeuer
shall
euer
bée
able
to
vndoe
it
.
Wherfore
I
should
much
wrong
your
iudgement
,
in
beléeuing
that
you
can
be
so
carried
away
with
the
vulgar
,
as
to
thinke
that
frequency
of
letters
is
precisely
required
for
the
fortification
of
a
friendship
.
I
shall
neuer
be
perswaded
that
any
such
heresie
can
take
hold
on
you
,
or
that
you
more
estéeme
of
verball
ceremony
,
then
of
action
and
the
true
entent
of
an
honest
will
.
For
my
part
,
I
haue
still
béene
more
a
friend
of
deeds
,
then
of
words
,
which
most
commonly
little
pleasure
and
lesse
profit
,
whereas
the
other
beget
them
both
.
My
slacknes
in
writing
shall
be
recompenced
with
a
desire
and
endeuour
to
doe
you
seruice
in
euery
occasion
whereunto
my
poore
but
ablest
meanes
may
extend
:
whereof
because
I
perswaded
my selfe
you
make
no
doubt
,
I
will
héere
with
my
humble
and
kindest
commendations
giue
end
to
the
present
.
A
due
acknowledgement
of
true
friendship
,
which
(
especially
)
in
aduersity
is
more
apparent
then
in
prosperity
.
SIr
,
by
your
letters
I
perceiue
you
haue
the
same
opinion
of
my
loue
,
I
alwaies
desired
.
I
am
glad
I
haue
not
bene
deceiued
in
the
iudgement
of
your
wisdome
and
good
will
.
And
since
that
true
and
perfect
friendship
consists
not
in
words
or
fair
promises
but
in
effects
&
vertuous
executions
:
I
must
needs
confesse
that
I
haue
found
you
of
little
speech
and
superfluous
apparance
in
my
behalfe
so
long
as
fortune
fauoured
me
;
but
assoon
as
my
troubles
and
occasions
began
but
to
knocke
at
the
gate
of
your
assistance
,
you
haue
euer
well
expressed
the
goodnes
of
your
generous
disposition
:
and
I
may
truly
say
I
neuer
met
with
any
,
or
very
few
such
like
.
Wherfore
be
assured
,
that
I
wil
serue
,
respect
,
and
loue
you
,
as
long
as
I
haue
breath
to
doe
it
,
and
that
too
as
farre
from
ingratitude
as
may
bée
.
I
know
many
that
bragge
and
talke
of
fauours
which
they
neuer
did
mée
:
whereas
you
haue
dealt
liberally
with
mée
,
and
neuer
spoke
of
it
.
They
are
indebted
to
mee
then
for
that
which
they
charge
mée
with
,
but
I
neuer
receiued
:
and
I
vnto
you
for
many
pleasures
done
mee
,
which
yet
you
neuer
put
to
account
.
I
will
adde
nothing
héereunto
,
but
that
if
I
could
send
you
my
heart
in
stead
of
this
paper
,
you
should
sée
the
integritie
of
my
meaning
.
I
haue
spoken
with
the
party
you
wot
of
,
and
my
reasons
,
together
with
your
authoritie
,
haue
so
preuailed
,
that
your
desire
shall
be
accomplished
.
If
in
any
other
thing
I
may
serue
you
,
giue
as
much
boldnesse
to
your
commandements
,
as
you
haue
alwaies
found
in
my
intreaties
:
so
shall
I
be
confirmed
in
that
perswasion
I
haue
that
you
esteeme
of
me
as
indéede
I
am
,
Your
very
humble
seruant
and
friend
.
A
thankfull
acknowledgement
to
one
that
hath
well
reported
of
vs
when
occasion
hath
beene
offered
.
To
my
worthy
friend
M.
&c.
SIr
,
I
should
be
too
too
ingratefull
if
I
should
not
giue
you
a
thousand
thankes
for
the
honest
mention
you
were
pleased
to
make
of
mee
in
the
company
you
wot
of
.
Only
take
héede
that
to
a
purpose
you
giue
not
caution
for
him
that
may
chance
to
faile
you
.
It
is
not
the
first
fauour
you
haue
done
mee
,
nor
the
last
I
hope
to
receiue
from
you
.
If
there
be
that
in
me
you
speake
of
,
be
assured
it
is
for
to
doe
you
very
humble
seruice
:
wherein
I
will
employ
my selfe
vpon
all
occasions
with
as
good
a
will
as
now
I
pray
vnto
God
to
giue
you
your
desires
.
A
sad
and
serious
complaint
of
a
friends
vnkindnesse
and
ingratitude
.
GOod
friend
,
it
is
no
matter
of
difficultie
for
those
that
are
in
health
to
giue
much
counsell
and
many
receits
to
the
sicke
.
If
my
disposition
could
haue
receiued
comfort
from
the
discréet
and
honest
letters
of
a
friend
,
I
had
found
it
in
yours
,
which
are
furnished
with
all
sort
of
kindnesse
and
accomplished
courtesie
.
But
like
vnto
him
that
thinkes
he
is
mounted
on
Sedanus
horse
,
my
obstinate
despaire
sets
so
sure
a
watch
on
my
thoughts
,
that
it
will
suffer
nothing
to
enter
into
them
but
vexation
and
miserie
.
I
am
sorry
your
medecine
cannot
worke
that
in
mee
which
your
vertue
deserues
,
able
in
troth
to
draw
any
other
out
of
the
griefe
of
calamitie
.
But
leaue
mée
I
pray
yée
as
I
am
.
For
there
is
nothing
can
content
mee
so
long
as
I
know
that
my
dissembling
friend
hath
violated
al
the
lawes
of
honesty
and
reason
,
and
vtterly
abolished
out
of
his
memorie
that
loue
and
respect
I
euer
bare
him
.
It
grieues
mee
excéedingly
that
my
minde
is
not
as
well
able
to
resist
the
assaults
of
misfortune
,
as
his
was
to
execute
on
me
all
kinde
of
ingratitude
:
to
the
end
that
in
this
affaire
I
might
as
easily
haue
borne
his
wrongs
,
as
héeretofore
I
haue
faithfully
acquited
my
selfe
in
so
many
commandements
hée
hath
laid
vpon
me
.
Deare
friend
,
if
your
loue
extend
so
farre
as
I
cannot
doubt
but
it
doth
,
suffer
mée
to
be
as
I
am
a
most
infortunate
man
,
and
rest
you
with
your
faire
and
kinde
bedfellow
in
all
happinesse
,
which
I
will
alwaies
pray
may
be
more
and
more
increased
,
and
continued
long
vpon
you
.
Recommendation
of
a
poore
man
to
the
fauour
and
furtherance
of
some
worthie
friend
.
SIr
,
I
know
I
cannot
please
you
better
,
then
to
present
you
with
meanes
to
imploy
those
abilities
of
your
good
and
liberall
disposition
on
some
such
person
as
shall
haue
occasion
to
vse
them
.
A
qualitie
no
doubt
aboue
all
others
worthy
,
honest
,
and
acceptable
to
God
.
Wherefore
I
that
of
this
affection
both
in
others
and
mine
own
particular
,
haue
made
such
good
experience
,
doe
especially
labour
,
being
so
faithfull
a
seruant
and
friend
vnto
you
as
I
am
,
to
satisfie
you
therein
;
hoping
withall
by
this
meane
to
bee
able
to
cléere
some
part
of
those
many
obligations
wherin
I
stand
so
farre
ingaged
vnto
you
.
The
bearer
héereof
is
a
poore
man
that
is
going
to
London
about
certaine
affaires
,
whereof
you
shall
bee
aduertised
by
him
at
large
:
hee
shall
haue
very
much
néede
of
your
counsell
and
countenance
.
A
beséech
you
Sir
,
impart
vnto
him
of
those
your
fauours
,
wherein
you
are
so
rich
and
abundant
,
that
you
cannot
depart
with
so
many
as
there
will
bée
many
more
remaining
behinde
.
And
in
regard
of
merit
,
you
are
to
hope
for
more
in
the
behalfe
of
this
man
,
then
of
any
other
that
euer
you
succoured
,
by
reason
his
pouertie
and
want
of
meanes
wil
neuer
suffer
him
so
much
as
to
thinke
of
requitall
.
Héerein
follow
but
your
owne
worthy
inclination
:
and
reioice
with
your selfe
at
the
excellencie
of
knowledge
that
is
ioined
in
you
to
this
,
that
you
haue
neither
péere
nor
superiour
in
courtesie
.
Whereunto
I
very
humbly
commend
my selfe
,
and
you
to
that
power
from
whom
I
will
daily
wish
you
all
prosperitie
.
An
earnest
protestation
of
sincere
affection
:
with
some
touch
of
vnkindnesse
taken
for
too
light
beleefe
of
sinister
reports
.
GOod
Sir
,
I
would
my
heart
lay
as
open
to
the
view
of
your
eie
,
as
the
colour
of
a
rose
doth
thorow
the
cléerest
crystall
.
For
then
behalding
in
it
how
much
I
trulie
loue
and
respect
you
,
and
how
much
beyond
all
others
I
desire
your
profit
and
honour
;
I
know
you
could
not
but
thinke
it
a
shame
to
fall
into
any
the
least
suspition
or
doubt
of
my
friendship
.
If
you
would
haue
measured
your
thoughts
by
mine
,
you
should
haue
séene
that
I
loue
you
because
you
loue
me
,
and
that
I
respect
you
because
I
am
indebted
to
your
vertue
.
I
cannot
chuse
but
thinke
it
strange
that
a
man
of
such
knowledge
,
wisedome
,
and
great
experience
in
all
things
,
should
so
easilie
slide
into
error
.
You
should
rather
haue
giuen
credit
to
so
many
proofes
you
haue
made
of
my
faith
and
affection
,
then
to
the
malice
and
enuie
of
men
.
And
to
speake
somewhat
fréely
vnto
you
:
if
you
be
perswaded
that
that
is
true
,
which
you
tell
mee
you
haue
heard
,
you
doe
your selfe
much
wrong
;
for
it
would
argue
great
weaknesse
in
you
,
to
giue
eare
to
any
such
thing
:
it
being
as
vicious
to
beléeue
euerie
thing
,
as
to
beléeue
nothing
:
for
to
be
ouer-easie
of
beléefe
,
and
not
to
beléeue
at
all
,
are
cousins
in
vice
by
secret
philosophie
.
Well
,
howsoeuer
it
be
,
I
will
alwaies
loue
you
as
much
as
you
shall
desire
to
bée
loued
of
me
,
and
as
long
as
your
vertues
haue
any
being
,
whereupon
I
haue
grounded
that
worthy
affection
I
beare
you
.
Wherefore
I
pray
you
esteeme
of
me
not
only
as
of
a
friend
,
but
as
of
an
especiall
and
singular
friend
,
for
so
I
desire
to
appeare
,
and
so
you
shall
be
sure
to
finde
me
assoone
as
any
fit
occasion
shall
offer
mée
the
meanes
to
make
it
good
.
A
pleasant
complement
,
discoursing
of
the
contempt
of
the
Court
,
and
content
of
a
retired
life
.
YOur
man
passing
this
way
,
came
to
enquire
of
my
health
,
therewithall
to
acquaint
you
at
his
returne
:
which
in
that
regard
hee
presumes
will
be
the
more
acceptable
,
by
reason
of
the
loue
it
pleaseth
you
to
beare
me
.
Wherefore
you
shall
vnderstand
that
God
bee
thanked
I
am
very
well
,
and
not
onely
I
,
to
whom
it
is
naturall
to
be
well
in
all
places
,
but
euen
a
very
rogue
would
thinke
himselfe
halfe
an
Emperour
,
liuing
as
I
doe
,
so
quieilie
,
and
so
well
retired
from
the
slauerie
wherin
I
continued
but
too
long
.
I
neuer
was
in
Paradise
(
as
farre
as
I
remember
)
so
that
I
cannot
iustly
say
what
the
life
of
the
blessed
is
;
but
sure
I
am
,
to
starue
héere
for
hunger
is
an
happinesse
to
the
seruice
of
a
Court
:
and
mee
thinkes
a
Peasant
with
vs
is
in
farre
better
state
then
a
great
man
there
.
When
I
lie
in
my
bed
,
and
consider
a
poore
seruant
almost
dead
for
cold
,
and
fainting
with
heat
,
and
sée
gréene
wood
to
warme
him
,
and
dead
drinke
to
refresh
him
,
and
if
he
hap
to
be
sicke
,
little
meanes
to
accommodate
him
;
I
sée
him
abroad
in
raine
,
haile
and
snow
,
and
when
he
comes
in
nothing
to
comfort
him
;
Lord
(
thinke
I
)
what
a
blessed
case
am
I
in
,
that
am
as
frée
from
these
inconueniences
,
as
hee
is
alwaies
subiect
to
them
.
As
there
is
no
miserie
to
that
of
a
poore
Courtier
that
is
wearie
and
cannot
sit
,
hungrie
and
cannot
eate
,
a-thirst
,
and
cannot
drinke
,
and
sléepie
,
and
yet
must
watch
;
so
I
am
perswaded
there
is
no
happinesse
to
mine
,
that
eat
when
I
haue
an
appetite
,
rest
when
I
am
wearie
,
and
goe
to
bed
when
I
am
sléepie
:
so
that
the
houres
that
I
tell
of
the
clocke
,
are
but
so
many
houres
of
my
pleasure
.
Therefore
neuer
enquire
more
how
I
doe
,
for
bee
assured
I
lacke
nothing
to
make
vp
a
full
and
absolute
contentment
,
but
your
companie
,
which
I
hope
(
at
leastwise
if
you
be
a
gentleman
of
your
word
)
I
shall
not
bee
long
without
.
In
the
expectation
whereof
I
will
leaue
my selfe
,
and
you
to
the
tuition
of
the
Almightie
.
Recommendation
of
an
extraordinarie
man
to
the
worthie
friendship
of
some
honorable
person
.
To
my
euer
honoured
friend
Sir
I.
&c.
HOnorable
Sir
,
I
acknowledge
much
vnto
fortune
for
offering
me
occasion
at
one
time
to
satisfie
both
Sir
Thomas
M.
and
your selfe
some
part
of
those
many
obligations
wherein
I
confesse
my selfe
to
haue
béene
a
long
time
indebted
vnto
you
,
and
by
the
way
of
continuing
friendship
betwixt
you
,
alike
in
goodnesse
of
nature
,
excellencie
of
spirit
,
and
all
other
qualities
worthie
your
noble
dispositions
:
so
that
hee
which
might
behold
the
face
of
your
hearts
,
could
hardly
discerne
the
one
from
the
other
.
By
experiences
and
the
common
opinion
of
the
world
,
hée
is
amplie
possest
of
your
vertues
.
And
if
you
haue
not
yet
heard
the
publike
voice
of
renowne
that
goes
about
proclaiming
his
worth
,
may
you
bée
pleased
to
giue
credit
vnto
my
pen
,
which
may
iustly
say
,
that
a
more
valiant
,
wise
,
vertuous
,
or
noble
gentleman
,
liues
not
this
day
vpon
the
earth
.
Embrace
one
another
then
at
my
intreatie
,
and
with
the
bands
of
courteous
offices
so
straitly
tie
your
affections
together
,
that
like
the
Gordian
knot
,
no
worldly
accident
may
be
of
power
to
dissolue
it
.
I
assure
my selfe
you
wil
doe
it
with
a
maruellous
satisfaction
of
each
other
.
But
yet
I
beséech
you
,
let
it
not
be
done
in
such
manner
,
but
that
like
an
humble
and
faithfull
seruant
as
I
am
vnto
you
both
,
I
may
find
a
place
in
the
middest
of
your
vertuous
friendship
.
Recommendation
of
one
friend
to
anothers
fauour
and
assistance
.
SIr
,
if
you
will
haue
me
lesse
importunate
and
troublesome
vnto
you
,
I
would
wish
you
to
become
lesse
courteous
towards
mée
.
For
out
of
your
fauour
I
picke
many
occasions
to
giue
you
trouble
.
Besides
I
know
not
how
to
refuse
my
friends
,
vnlesse
I
should
shew
my selfe
neglectful
of
them
,
which
would
prooue
a
very
great
wrong
to
my
nature
.
M.
P.
for
his
worthy
qualities
capable
of
your
loue
,
is
going
to
the
Court
about
some
affaires
,
in
the
dispatch
whereof
hee
shall
haue
much
néed
of
counsell
and
fauour
.
And
not
knowing
any
one
more
liberall
of
them
then
your selfe
,
hee
hath
verie
earnestly
intreated
mee
to
write
somewhat
more
then
ordinarie
vnto
you
in
his
commendation
.
Now
I
that
am
naturally
inclined
to
pleasure
euerie
man
,
especially
those
vn to
whom
nothing
ought
to
bee
denied
,
haue
willingly
vndertaken
this
charge
,
as
well
to
gratifie
him
,
as
to
doe
you
seruice
in
furnishing
you
with
meanes
to
winne
the
heart
of
a
gentleman
of
that
value
he
is
of
.
I
cannot
doubt
but
that
you
will
exercise
your
accustomed
goodnesse
vpon
him
,
either
in
regard
of
my
intreatie
,
or
his
vertue
,
which
is
such
,
that
as
soone
as
it
shall
be
knowen
vnto
you
,
there
will
be
no
more
néed
of
my
letters
.
Wherefore
I
will
not
goe
about
by
any
further
Art
to
wrong
your
iudgement
,
being
well
assured
you
will
find
that
your
credit
shall
be
emploied
,
and
my
request
satisfied
for
a
very
vertuous
gentleman
.
A
promise
of
our
best
indeuour
in
the
education
of
a
Childe
;
notwithstanding
some
doubts
of
his
capacity
and
inclination
.
SIr
,
the
loue
that
I
beare
you
,
procéeding
from
your
merit
and
my
obligation
,
might
assure
you
:
that
whatsoeuer
I
can
doe
for
your
sonne
shall
bee
performed
with
all
affection
and
good
will
.
For
the
force
of
your
entreaties
cannot
bee
of
more
power
in
that
regard
then
my
desire
:
onely
it
grieues
me
that
the
field
of
his
vnderstanding
is
not
so
proper
to
receiue
,
as
I
am
ready
to
sow
in
it
the
seede
of
my
little
experience
,
to
the
end
that
with
his
profit
,
and
my
pleasure
you
might
sée
the
fruit
of
my
labors
.
He
seemes
to
mée
to
bee
borne
more
apt
for
any
other
exercise
,
than
that
ciuility
,
neuerthelesse
more
to
satisfie
your
fancy
then
my
iudgement
,
I
will
alwaies
keepe
him
neere
about
me
:
and
be
assured
that
if
the
trauell
or
diligence
of
the
husbandman
can
mend
and
better
a
barren
ground
,
I
will
not
be
defectiue
in
his
behalfe
.
For
you
shall
vnderstand
that
of
all
my
trauell
and
paines
,
there
is
no
fruit
more
deare
or
pleasing
to
me
,
than
that
which
proceeds
from
the
graine
I
haue
sowen
.
The
pleasure
which
the
labourer
fooles
,
when
with
his
owne
hand
he
plucks
the
fruit
hanging
on
the
trée
which
he
himselfe
hath
planted
,
is
very
great
.
How
much
greater
then
ought
the
contentment
of
that
man
to
be
,
who
hauing
endued
a
tender
youth
with
good
manners
,
gathers
the
fruit
of
vextue
,
comming
of
it
.
For
my
part
I
will
do
all
that
shall
be
possible
and
necessary
,
so
that
if
things
fall
not
out
answerable
to
your
expectation
and
my
desire
,
you
may
impute
the
fault
rather
to
the
matter
,
than
the
workemanship
.
A
second
reproofe
or
rather
the
doubling
of
a
friendly
Admonition
.
SIr
,
in
the
letter
which
not
long
since
you
receiued
from
mee
,
and
which
as
I
am
giuen
to
vnderstand
you
receiued
in
euill
part
,
I
came
rather
drawne
by
a
desire
of
your
good
,
and
the
loue
that
I
beare
you
,
then
perswaded
by
mine
owne
will
to
execute
the
office
of
reprehension
vpon
you
:
and
as
the
good
Phisition
that
not
to
hurt
but
to
heale
his
patient
comes
much
against
his
mind
to
the
vyolent
remedies
of
fire
or
knife
,
so
did
I
carry
my selfe
towards
you
,
that
if
my
correction
could
haue
proued
pleasing
and
profitable
vnto
you
,
I
should
haue
bene
glad
that
by
my
means
you
had
recouered
your
helth
,
or
that
therein
fayling
,
I
might
at
leastwise
haue
satisfied
mine
owne
conscience
and
the
duty
of
our
frindship
.
As
from
a
friend
then
that
truly
affects
you
,
and
not
as
from
a
malicious
enemy
receiue
the
exhortation
I
made
you
.
For
otherwise
you
shew
that
a
flatterer
is
more
acceptable
vnto
you
,
then
a
friend
.
And
I
that
aboue
all
others
abhor
that
quality
,
and
that
had
rather
be
an
open
enemy
,
then
a
hollow
friend
will
sooner
leaue
to
loue
you
,
then
dissemble
with
you
,
and
rather
offend
you
with
a
plaine
trueth
,
then
please
you
with
a
deceitfull
lye
.
But
pardon
mee
I
pray
you
,
for
speaking
thus
fréely
,
and
consider
that
your
disease
stood
in
need
of
a
sharpe
,
and
strong
purge
,
which
I
wish
may
work
that
effect
in
you
the
case
requires
.
A
briefe
discourse
concerning
the
progression
(
or
rather
the
succession
)
and
vicissitude
of
Learning
;
sometimes
flourishing
in
one
Climate
,
sometimes
in
another
.
To
my
learned
friend
.
SIr
,
whereas
you
desire
a
frée
deliuery
of
my
mind
vpon
the
matter
propounded
in
your
last
,
I
must
néeds
tell
you
I
am
not
any
way
of
your
opinion
to
thinke
that
the
temperature
of
the
Clymate
can
make
men
either
more
or
lesse
learned
,
as
if
there
were
certaine
countries
more
affected
to
good
letters
then
others
.
I
wil
not
deny
,
but
that
euery
nation
hath
certaine
vertues
and
vices
,
which
are
transmitted
from
one
to
another
,
as
it
were
by
an
hereditarie
and
successiue
right
:
nor
haue
I
séene
any
Countrey
anciently
taxed
for
a
vice
,
which
is
not
still
continuing
in
the
posterity
,
although
it
haue
béene
repeopled
with
new
Colonies
.
But
touching
so
much
as
appertaines
to
Sciences
the
discourse
is
farre
otherwise
,
as
may
be
gathered
by
very
ocular
examples
:
was
there
euer
greater
personages
in
all
kind
of
knowledge
&
learning
than
in
Greece
,
and
was
there
euer
so
much
barbarism
in
the
world
,
as
that
which
is
presently
in
it
:
Look
but
vpon
Affricke
,
in
what
opinion
of
doctrine
had
it
euer
béene
in
?
Neuerthelesse
a
little
after
the
aduancement
and
progresse
of
our
Christian
Religion
,
there
was
no
country
,
on
the
earth
that
produced
greater
Doctors
of
the
Church
than
it
,
witnesse
Tertullian
,
Optatius
,
Lactantius
,
Saint
Cyprian
and
Saint
Augustine
.
After
the
same
manner
in
the
time
of
the
Romane
common-wealth
,
no
nation
was
euer
more
estranged
from
good
letters
than
Germany
,
which
both
at
this
instant
,
and
for
sixe
or
seuen
score
yéers
past
hath
béene
séene
to
flourish
in
all
kinde
of
studies
.
And
I
may
say
for
it
is
true
that
as
Monarch
yes
,
so
learning
and
sciences
change
their
habitation
,
according
to
the
diuersity
of
seasons
.
Which
is
the
reason
why
at
first
they
flourished
among
the
Chaldeans
then
in
Aegypt
,
from
thence
they
took
their
course
into
Greece
,
and
lastly
vnto
Rome
.
Afterwards
we
hauing
béene
possessed
for
many
hundreth
yeares
,
together
with
a
continuall
barbarisme
they
came
at
length
to
soiourne
part
in
Italy
and
Germany
,
and
part
in
France
and
England
,
whereas
yet
they
make
their
abode
.
And
all
this
by
a
certaine
reuolution
of
things
,
which
is
the
cause
that
in
some
ages
we
sée
armes
to
prosper
in
a
countrey
,
and
then
againe
letters
.
Thus
hauing
briefly
shewed
you
that
euery
Nation
is
capable
of
Arts
and
Sciences
,
according
to
the
diuersitie
of
occurrences
,
I
will
leaue
you
to
a
consideraion
of
my
reasons
,
and
my selfe
very
ready
to
bee
commanded
by
you
,
vpon
all
occasions
.
An
excellent
and
extraordinary
letter
of
Commendation
.
To
my
approued
deare
friend
Mr.
&c.
SIr
,
in
that
I
know
you
to
bée
an
enemy
of
complement
,
I
will
write
as
plainely
as
may
be
,
to
the
end
my
meaning
may
the
better
appeare
vnto
you
,
which
peraduenture
couered
with
the
vaile
of
Arte
would
be
the
harder
for
you
to
conceiue
.
This
Gentleman
,
M.
V.
is
a
friend
of
mine
,
and
desiring
to
be
receiued
into
the
number
of
your
seruants
,
he
hath
entreated
mee
to
become
the
meanes
of
it
.
Wherupon
comparing
his
merit
with
your
iudgement
,
and
perswading
my selfe
that
with
one
office
I
may
satisfie
two
debts
,
one
of
duty
to
you
,
the
other
of
affection
to
him
.
I
am
very
well
coutented
to
vndertake
it
.
Now
because
I
know
that
in
the
election
of
friends
,
you
&
I
are
as
it
were
of
one
taste
,
I
assure
my selfe
you
will
iudge
him
worthy
your
friendship
and
my
commendation
.
I
will
not
speake
of
what
you
are
to
do
for
him
:
for
you
shall
no
sooner
know
him
,
but
you
will
thinke
you
should
do
more
for
him
than
he
will
require
.
Howsoeuer
,
vntill
he
haue
obtained
that
which
he
desireth
,
I
meane
so
to
oppresse
you
with
intreaties
,
that
my
importunitie
shall
beget
his
satisfaction
:
and
I
hope
you
will
not
take
it
in
euill
part
,
forasmuch
as
you
know
,
that
a
man
is
only
to
intreat
for
himselfe
,
but
for
his
friend
hée
is
both
to
intreat
and
importune
.
When
for
mine
owne
particular
I
shall
haue
occasion
of
that
fauour
,
which
so
many
times
héeretofore
hath
obliged
me
vnto
you
,
it
shall
be
then
that
I
will
vse
that
madestie
,
which
the
loue
I
iustly
beare
so
worthie
a
friend
as
M.
V.
doth
make
mee
now
to
forget
:
although
I
will
neuer
forget
to
commend
you
and
all
your
affaires
vnto
him
in
whose
hand
is
all
prosperity
to
giue
.
A
gratefull
acceptation
of
a
friendly
gift
,
with
modest
refusall
of
things
,
exceeding
either
the
giuers
meanes
,
or
the
receiuers
merit
.
SIr
,
I
haue
receiued
your
letters
aswell
furnished
with
good
aduise
and
counsell
,
as
with
good
will
and
affection
,
and
I
am
not
a
little
glad
we
both
iumpe
so
well
together
in
opinion
,
that
you
are
perswaded
that
that
which
is
for
your
profit
and
seruice
,
will
be
also
for
my
commoditie
and
good
.
If
by
many
other
waies
I
had
not
made
experience
of
your
friendship
this
would
bee
an
approoued
argument
vnto
me
of
it
.
Now
I
shall
goe
with
a
far
better
will
séeing
my selfe
carried
by
your
direction
.
I
humbly
thanke
you
,
for
the
present
it
hath
pleased
you
to
send
me
,
worthy
indeed
the
greatnes
of
your
mind
but
not
my
desert
:
for
there
is
no
particular
gaine
shall
make
mee
dissemble
that
which
I
am
bound
to
tell
you
,
and
that
is
,
how
you
are
to
take
care
not
to
extend
your
liberality
beyond
the
limit
of
your
meanes
,
and
that
in
séeking
to
supply
your
friends
,
you
do
not
wrong
your selfe
.
Weigh
but
your
fortunes
with
my
merit
,
and
you
will
find
that
so
great
a
gift
doth
neither
belong
to
your
ability
nor
my
condition
.
I
would
not
haue
you
so
bountifull
vnto
mee
,
as
that
therby
you
should
want
means
,
to
be
so
vnto
others
of
more
vertue
&
worth
,
for
so
I
should
shew
my selfe
more
a
friend
of
mine
owne
profit
,
then
your
reputation
.
What
could
you
offer
to
one
that
indeed
were
worthy
,
if
you
thinke
this
but
a
trifle
for
me
,
that
am
of
so
little
valew
.
Wee
should
so
giue
as
wee
may
alwaies
haue
wherewithall
to
giue
,
and
so
well
manage
the
gates
of
liberality
,
that
they
may
neither
be
open
nor
shut
to
any
.
With
all
thankfulfulnesse
I
accept
of
your
gelding
,
which
comes
verie
fit
for
the
iourney
I
haue
in
hand
:
but
the
mony
I
haue
returned
back
again
to
the
fountaine
of
your
bounty
,
that
there
may
not
lacke
water
for
those
that
deserue
it
better
then
I
,
and
that
(
it
may
be
)
are
more
athirst
.
If
you
come
not
hither
before
my
departure
,
I
will
be
with
you
assoone
as
conuenientlie
I
may
,
to
acknowledge
some
part
of
those
manie
fauours
I
continually
receiue
at
your
hands
.
In
the
meane
time
I
wish
your
fortunes
answerable
to
your
free
and
generous
disposition
.
An
earnest
disswasiue
from
a
cruell
and
couetous
course
of
life
.
SIr
,
the
affection
that
I
beare
you
is
the
onelie
cause
to
make
mee
so
desirous
of
your
good
as
presently
I
am
.
Reputation
(
me
thinks
)
is
one
of
the
principall
and
chiefest
happinesses
we
enioy
in
this
world
and
as
easie
to
get
,
as
hard
to
keepe
.
With
these
few
lines
then
I
purpose
to
doe
rather
the
office
of
a
friend
then
of
a
flatterer
,
and
no
whit
to
disguise
the
truth
vnto
you
,
desiring
you
as
from
a
true
and
honest
friend
to
take
this
aduertisement
,
which
shall
bring
you
if
not
much
commodity
,
at
least
wise
much
honor
and
credit
,
and
I
doubt
not
if
you
haue
that
iudgement
yet
remaining
,
which
I
haue
promised
to
my selfe
out
of
the
ability
of
your
spirit
,
but
you
will
acknowledge
that
euerie
pettie
honour
is
to
bee
preferred
to
the
greatest
profit
.
It
appertaines
to
the
office
,
not
of
a
meane
creature
,
but
of
a
cruell
and
inexorable
man
,
to
follow
that
profession
you
doe
,
by
séeking
the
death
of
men
,
and
conuerting
into
their
ruine
that
eloquence
which
nature
for
the
good
of
the
liuing
hath
so
liberally
imparted
vnto
you
,
and
I
know
it
cannot
bée
done
without
great
offence
vnto
God
.
Who
though
hée
bee
very
iustice
it selfe
,
yet
as
singular
and
vnspeakeable
mercy
,
he
enclines
more
to
pittie
and
pardon
,
then
to
paine
and
punishment
.
And
how
can
you
without
offence
of
his
diuine
maiesty
so
often
call
into
iudgement
,
the
life
(
it
may
be
)
of
the
innocent
.
Retire
your selfe
from
this
course
,
and
applying
your
wit
(
the
gift
of
God
and
nature
)
to
a
better
vse
,
make
more
account
of
reputation
then
wealth
,
which
indéed
is
the
onely
motiue
that
carries
you
thereunto
.
For
if
you
please
,
you
cannot
want
many
other
good
meanes
both
for
the
one
and
the
other
.
I
am
constrained
euen
out
of
friendship
,
hearing
the
bad
and
in
famous
report
that
goes
of
you
euerie
where
,
&
that
too
accompanied
with
the
danger
of
your
life
,
to
write
thus
plainely
vnto
you
.
I
should
bée
very
glad
if
it
could
draw
you
from
so
detestable
a
practise
,
and
restore
you
your
wonted
reputation
.
Otherwise
I
pronounce
you
vnworthy
of
our
friendship
,
&
desire
the
world
should
know
that
I
loued
you
no
longer
then
I
saw
you
walking
in
the
way
of
vertue
.
And
so
I
bid
you
farewell
.
An
expostulation
of
vnkind
misconceipts
and
iealousies
in
friendship
.
SIr
,
Your
wisdome
well
known
of
al
,
and
approued
vnto
many
,
with
the
experience
I
haue
made
of
it
,
would
neuer
haue
suffered
me
to
beléeue
that
which
was
often
deliuered
vnto
me
by
the
letters
of
my
friends
,
had
I
not
vnderstood
as
much
by
the
last
I
receiued
from
you
,
more
fraught
with
choller
then
reason
.
I
cannot
imagine
how
a
man
of
such
knowledge
,
and
more
iudgement
,
brought
vp
in
Court
,
and
continuallie
employed
in
affairs
,
should
be
carried
to
an
opinion
of
me
,
so
far
from
truth
,
and
the
bent
of
my
disposition
,
which
hath
euer
béene
most
desirous
to
make
good
vnto
the
world
in
what
estéem
I
haue
alwaies
held
the
friendship
of
so
worthy
a
gentleman
as
your selfe
.
You
may
be
perswaded
then
I
neuer
committed
any
thing
against
you
,
which
might
any
way
offend
the
reputation
of
an
honest
and
vertuous
man
,
and
thereof
I
wish
no
better
testimony
then
mine
owne
thoughts
.
Of
all
actions
some
be
voluntary
,
and
some
necessarie
.
If
my
will
shen
haue
neuer
drawne
me
to
offend
you
,
nor
any
necessity
how
great
soeuer
it
were
,
would
euer
permit
me
to
wring
our
ancient
friendship
,
would
you
haue
me
giue
credit
to
the
perfidious
and
wicked
impressions
of
men
,
or
(
by
your
fauour
)
to
some
light
and
inconsiderate
suspition
that
possesseth
you
,
rather
then
to
mine
owne
conscience
.
Nay
sir
,
be
assured
I
am
your
friend
,
and
that
I
deserue
you
should
be
mine
yet
more
then
you
are
,
desiring
you
that
héerin
you
will
neither
doe
iniurie
to
the
integritie
of
my
nature
,
nor
your
owne
discretion
,
vnlesse
that
(
weary
of
me
,
and
oppressed
with
my
vnseruiceablenesse
and
inutilities
)
you
will
make
this
an
occasion
to
cleere
your
hands
of
me
,
which
at
all
times
would
appeare
most
vnworthy
your
iudgement
and
my
desert
.
Consolation
for
the
death
of
a
Brother
or
other
friend
.
GOod
Sir
,
I
feare
this
Letter
will
worke
effects
contrarie
to
my
desire
,
and
in
stead
of
drying
vp
your
teares
,
raise
vp
new
stormes
of
heauinesse
in
vs
both
,
vpon
discourse
of
your
brothers
so
vnexpected
and
much
to
be
lamented
death
,
I
haue
put
off
the
doing
of
this
office
vntill
now
,
as
well
in
regard
of
the
greatnesse
of
mine
owne
sorrow
,
which
would
not
suffer
me
to
write
,
as
also
in
that
I
attended
a
conuenient
time
when
as
the
extremitie
of
yours
should
be
so
qualified
,
that
it
might
giue
way
to
that
little
comfort
I
desire
to
minister
vnto
you
.
But
how
should
I
offer
you
comfort
,
when
as
I
haue
as
much
or
more
neede
of
it
then
your selfe
?
For
if
he
were
your
brother
,
he
was
my
very
deare
and
singular
friend
:
if
hee
were
kinde
to
you
,
he
was
much
more
to
mee
:
for
his
affection
to
you
was
deriued
from
nature
and
bloud
,
but
to
mee
out
of
election
and
will
.
He
alwaies
embraced
you
with
an
extraordinarie
respect
,
because
hee
was
thereunto
bound
:
but
vpon
me
he
conferred
all
offices
of
loue
and
liberalitie
which
I
neuer
deserued
.
Let
vs
then
with
one
consent
lament
our
infinite
losse
,
and
not
only
ours
,
but
euerie
mans
that
delighted
in
vertue
and
honour
.
Poore
gentleman
!
when
hee
was
in
greatest
expectation
of
gathering
the
fruit
which
his
vertues
had
promised
him
,
like
a
fresh
and
new
blowen
rose
,
euen
in
the
entrance
to
his
best
daies
,
to
bee
cut
off
by
the
vnluckie
hand
of
vntimely
death
!
Howbeit
,
this
is
no
little
comfort
,
that
hee
departed
this
world
with
the
hope
hee
had
giuen
his
friends
of
his
vertues
,
with
the
fruit
whereof
he
was
a
debtor
to
his
parents
,
with
the
honour
he
expected
from
his
Countrie
,
and
with
the
good
he
had
promised
al
good
men
,
leauing
nothing
behinde
him
but
sorrow
and
teares
,
and
a
desire
alwaies
to
bewaile
him
,
alwaies
to
wish
for
him
.
He
that
loued
him
not
,
neuer
knew
him
:
he
that
knew
him
,
and
was
not
sorrie
for
him
,
had
neither
sense
nor
humanitie
.
But
what
doe
I
meane
to
be
carried
away
thus
by
griefe
from
my
purposed
end
?
Let
vs
leaue
all
sorrow
,
and
rather
enuious
of
his
selicitie
,
then
mooued
with
his
losse
,
let
vs
reioice
at
his
fortune
.
He
hath
paid
the
debt
which
he
ought
vnto
nature
,
and
the
sooner
it
was
,
the
better
,
was
his
hap
.
For
happier
is
he
that
by
an
impetuous
,
but
prosperous
gale
is
speedily
driuen
into
the
desired
port
,
then
he
that
arriues
there
with
a
long
and
tedious
calme
.
And
be
that
knew
this
life
was
but
lent
him
of
nature
,
liued
so
,
as
hee
was
not
vnwilling
to
die
;
if
hee
may
be
said
to
die
,
that
is
gone
out
of
darknesse
into
light
,
that
leaues
paine
for
pleasure
,
and
puts
off
mortalitie
to
become
immortall
.
Wherein
could
the
fauour
of
God
appeare
vnto
him
more
,
then
in
taking
him
out
of
the
troubles
and
calamities
of
this
wicked
world
,
before
hee
should
know
the
dangers
of
times
,
the
sorrowes
of
age
,
and
the
many
mischiefes
that
continually
attend
on
this
miserable
life
of
ours
?
And
well
was
it
foreséene
of
his
nature
,
that
féeling
it selfe
cloied
with
the
false
and
transitorie
pleasures
of
the
earth
,
for
to
bee
possessed
of
the
true
and
euerlasting
idies
of
heauen
,
made
him
leaue
vs
,
euen
then
when
in
the
very
prime
and
flourish
of
his
yéeres
he
had
attained
to
as
much
honour
and
fame
,
as
man
with
long
trauell
as
bodie
and
minde
could
in
al
his
life
time
acquire
.
But
why
,
Sir
,
doe
I
take
all
this
paines
to
finde
out
meanes
of
consolation
for
you
,
that
with
much
more
eloquence
and
vnderstanding
is
better
able
to
comfort
me
,
and
that
with
more
courage
and
constancie
knowes
how
to
beare
this
brunt
of
fortune
?
I
will
therefore
cease
to
be
a
further
trouble
either
to
you
or
my selfe
,
and
with
this
comfortable
assurance
end
,
that
as
reioicing
in
his
glorie
he
is
now
assuredly
liuing
in
heauen
,
so
shall
the
memorie
of
his
vertues
haue
an
eternall
being
in
the
spéech
of
men
.
A
complement
ful
of
acknowledgement
of
courtesies
receiued
.
SIr
,
with
many
fauours
,
as
continually
you
do
,
you
may
augment
my
obligation
;
but
you
cannot
adde
any
thing
to
the
loue
I
beare
you
,
or
the
desire
I
haue
to
do
you
seruice
:
for
neither
the
one
nor
the
other
can
be
greater
.
And
would
the
time
could
accommodate
me
as
wel
with
means
to
satisfie
these
debts
,
as
it
giues
you
occasion
to
increase
them
.
I
am
indebted
to
you
in
much
,
and
my
abilitie
is
very
small
;
but
it
shal
be
better
;
if
like
a
rich
and
liberall
Creditour
,
you
will
bee
contented
to
take
kinde
words
and
the
good
affection
of
an
honest
heart
in
paiment
of
your
courtesies
.
I
haue
receiued
M.
G.
his
Letter
,
which
you
sent
mee
,
vnto
whom
(
if
you
please
)
returne
the
inclosed
answer
:
with
that
one
office
you
shall
gratifie
two
friends
,
and
of
them
two
if
it
were
possible
,
make
me
alwaies
more
readie
than
I
am
,
To
be
commanded
by
you
.
A
graue
intercession
to
a
father
for
a
sonne
that
hath
offended
:
with
friendly
testimonie
of
his
hopefull
towardnesse
.
To
my
reuerend
friend
M.
&c.
SIr
,
the
friendship
which
hath
béen
betwixt
vs
from
our
youth
,
commands
mee
to
write
the
present
,
for
to
aduertise
you
how
your
sonne
R.
doth
euery
day
more
and
more
applie
himselfe
to
the
course
you
desire
of
his
studies
.
I
would
not
beleeue
that
which
my
boies
reported
of
him
,
but
sounded
him
my selfe
vpon
the
sudden
in
his
lesson
.
And
if
the
hunters
saying
bee
true
,
that
the
Deare
is
knowen
by
his
tract
,
I
will
promise
you
as
much
contentment
from
him
as
you
wish
.
Wherfore
I
would
counsell
you
(
forgetting
matters
past
)
heereafter
to
embrace
his
actions
,
like
a
louing
father
.
All
that
I
labour
in
,
is
to
become
caution
to
you
both
:
to
you
,
that
hee
shall
be
so
good
a
sonne
,
that
as
in
age
,
so
in
well
doing
hee
shall
goe
before
the
rest
of
his
brothers
and
sisters
:
to
him
,
that
hence
forward
you
shall
fauour
him
,
not
only
as
your
eldest
,
but
as
your
best
beloued
.
It
is
no
small
victorie
for
you
,
to
haue
subdued
and
reduced
him
according
to
your
desire
,
to
studie
,
after
he
had
for
a
time
followed
armes
,
whereunto
he
séemed
to
be
naturally
inclined
:
neither
was
it
a
lesse
victorie
for
him
to
haue
subdued
himselfe
for
to
obey
you
.
And
in
truth
you
reape
no
little
commoditie
by
his
fault
,
in
that
now
you
know
how
good
a
sonne
you
haue
.
Such
as
in
the
holy
Scripture
were
sinners
,
and
afterwards
truly
repented
them
,
were
no
lesse
estéemed
of
God
,
nay
many
times
more
than
those
which
had
not
sinned
at
all
.
I
will
not
stand
vpon
any
application
,
but
commending
both
it
and
my selfe
vnto
you
,
very
kindly
take
my
leaue
.
A
short
complement
vpon
receit
of
some
new
courtesie
.
SIr
,
I
haue
receiued
the
Greyhound
you
sent
me
,
wherewithall
I
am
as
much
pleased
,
as
hee
was
kindly
deriued
:
although
I
must
confesse
,
that
in
receiuing
him
I
was
somewhat
ashamed
,
by
reason
I
thought
this
new
courtesie
did
vpbraid
me
with
my
not
acknowledging
as
yet
in
action
,
how
much
I
am
your
seruant
in
will
.
But
howsoeuer
,
I
thanke
you
very
kindly
for
him
,
and
with
such
affection
,
as
hee
that
amongst
your
friends
most
desireth
to
appeare
how
readie
hee
is
alwaies
to
vndergoe
your
commandements
,
and
commend
your
liberalitie
as
much
as
all
your
other
vertues
are
aboue
all
your
like
generally
commended
.
And
so
for
this
time
I
humbly
take
my
leaue
.
Excuse
for
too
rare
writing
:
vrging
withall
the
prosecution
of
some
businesse
:
and
vpon
occasion
of
the
death
of
a
friend
,
the
election
of
another
in
his
stead
.
SIr
,
you
may
perceiue
by
my
former
,
that
although
I
am
your
debter
for
many
Letters
,
yet
am
I
nothing
behinde
to
you
in
good
will
:
and
the
more
my
slacknes
is
in
that
,
the
more
is
my
readinesse
to
serue
you
in
great
matters
.
I
am
to
desire
you
to
second
the
request
I
haue
made
vnto
M.
H.
your
vnkle
and
my
very
good
friend
concerning
the
businesse
wherof
I
haue
now
written
to
him
▪
which
is
verie
easie
for
him
,
and
without
meanes
impossible
for
mée
to
effect
.
The
death
of
M.
P.
your
kinsman
very
much
troubled
mee
at
the
first
,
but
I
consider
that
with
glorie
and
reputation
hee
hath
satisfied
God
,
his
Prince
,
and
the
debt
which
he
ought
vnto
nature
.
And
no
doubt
but
hee
is
now
at
peace
in
heauen
,
whereas
we
amidst
the
troubles
and
corruptions
of
the
world
,
are
continually
tossed
with
the
tribulations
of
this
miserable
life
.
And
séeing
it
hath
pleased
God
to
take
from
mee
so
good
and
faithfull
a
friend
,
I
beséech
you
to
accept
of
the
election
I
make
of
you
in
his
stead
,
with
such
a
minde
and
affection
to
serue
and
honour
you
,
as
I
haue
alwaies
carried
towards
him
.
May
you
bee
pleased
then
to
receiue
me
into
this
degrée
,
and
though
my
qualities
deserue
it
not
,
at
leastwise
it
appertaines
to
the
innated
courtesie
of
your
disposition
.
I
assure
my selfe
that
the
Letters
héere
inclosed
shall
finde
such
addresse
as
their
directions
require
,
and
that
you
will
be
pleased
(
if
the
gentlemen
be
in
towne
)
to
returne
their
answers
.
I
will
say
no
more
,
but
only
intreat
you
to
loue
me
,
and
to
write
often
vnto
me
,
to
the
end
that
the
gaine
I
make
of
you
,
may
giue
mee
lesse
sense
of
the
losse
I
haue
made
of
so
deare
a
friend
:
and
so
very
kindly
I
bid
you
farewell
.
Thankful
acceptance
of
a
friendlie
counsell
,
aduising
to
follow
(
or
serue
)
some
greate
man
:
whence
ariseth
an
obseruation
of
the
cold
recompence
of
seruices
in
these
daies
in
comparison
of
times
past
.
To
my
truly
louing
friend
.
SIr
,
you
were
not
out
of
reason
when
like
a
friend
for
to
comfort
me
in
my
troubles
,
or
rather
indéed
to
possesse
mee
with
that
care
which
euery
man
ought
to
haue
of
the
time
to
come
.
You
told
me
I
should
doe
well
to
put
my selfe
into
the
seruice
of
some
great
personage
,
where
you
were
perswaded
I
should
be
well
entertained
,
and
that
the
sooner
it
were
the
better
it
would
be
,
nothing
being
more
precious
than
time
.
Your
counsell
séemes
to
mee
without
all
question
no
lesse
vertuous
and
wise
,
than
worthy
of
our
friendship
;
and
I
am
fully
resolued
to
follow
it
.
But
the
feare
of
not
attaining
that
propounded
end
,
is
as
it
were
a
very
crosse
to
my
resolution
.
For
the
malice
of
the
time
is
such
,
that
one
is
more
deceiued
in
the
recompence
of
seruices
,
than
in
any
other
practises
whatsoeuer
.
Great
men
thinke
that
others
inferiour
to
them
in
fortunes
were
expresly
made
for
their
onely
and
particular
respect
,
neuer
considering
that
if
they
would
put
that
fantasticall
opinion
out
of
their
heads
,
they
should
with
much
more
contentment
be
better
serued
.
M.
Crassus
,
hauing
many
seruants
,
was
alwaies
very
carefull
of
them
,
and
with
all
gentlenesse
vsed
them
no
worse
than
his
owne
children
.
One
of
the
chiefest
satisfactions
that
followed
Iulius
Caesar
in
his
end
,
was
,
that
hee
had
well
acknowledged
the
merit
of
his
seruants
.
But
the
humor
of
these
ancient
vertues
is
now
to
séeke
,
and
to
serue
with
losse
and
preiudice
is
become
euen
a
matter
of
necessitie
.
Let
not
the
spurre
of
your
affection
then
post
mee
on
so
fast
to
a
seruice
,
that
I
repent
me
but
too
late
of
my
more
haste
than
good
spéede
.
Neuerthelesse
,
because
it
is
against
my
nature
to
bee
idle
,
I
will
doe
as
God
shall
put
in
my
minde
,
hoping
to
meet
with
the
fortune
of
some
good
Crassus
;
and
to
that
effect
let
mée
bée
remembred
in
your
praiers
,
as
your
prosperity
shal
dailie
finde
a
place
for
it
in
mine
.
Vpon
submission
of
a
runnagate
and
vnruly
sonne
,
the
kinde
father
(
vnder
hand
)
commends
him
to
the
seruice
of
a
worthy
friend
,
vnder
whose
shelter
necessitie
had
alreadie
driuen
him
.
To
my
very
honourable
friend
Sir
R.
&c.
SIr
,
hauing
alwaies
honoured
and
respected
you
among
other
my
worthy
friends
,
not
onely
for
your
vertues
,
but
for
a
certaine
kinde
of
I
know
not
what
obligation
of
nature
which
inuites
me
thereunto
,
I
perswade
my selfe
that
you
also
haue
some
instinct
and
naturall
inclination
of
good
will
towards
me
.
Whereupon
I
am
drawen
with
the
more
boldnesse
to
offer
you
a
request
I
very
much
desire
to
obtaine
.
I
am
a
father
;
when
I
say
father
,
you
may
withall
imagine
the
tyrannie
which
nature
exerciseth
ouer
mee
in
fauour
of
my
children
.
It
hath
pleased
God
to
giue
me
fiue
sonnes
,
of
the
which
I
had
destined
the
third
to
the
seruice
of
the
Court
:
but
as
it
commonly
failes
out
,
that
fathers
purpose
courses
for
their
children
,
and
they
dispose
of
them
contrary
to
their
mindes
,
so
it
happened
that
he
whom
I
spake
of
stole
out
of
England
without
my
knowledge
,
about
thrée
moneths
agoe
,
and
crossing
into
France
,
came
at
length
to
Paris
,
where
his
meanes
failing
him
,
he
hath
bethought
himselfe
,
and
begins
to
represent
the
parable
of
the
prodigall
childe
vnto
his
father
,
which
I
am
very
well
contented
to
accomplish
.
Hee
hath
craued
pardon
of
me
by
Letters
,
and
by
the
same
meane
interposed
the
authority
of
a
kinsman
of
mine
one
M.
M.
a
gentleman
of
quality
,
who
hath
béen
these
two
yéeres
abroad
in
trauell
.
I
vnderstand
hee
hath
done
his
dutie
vnto
you
,
and
that
you
haue
kindly
entertained
him
,
vpon
knowledge
that
hee
was
my
sonne
.
Now
since
his
fortune
hath
carried
him
thither
,
I
shall
humbly
entreat
so
much
fauor
of
you
,
as
to
take
him
into
your
seruice
,
with
no
other
priuiledge
then
as
one
of
the
meanest
in
your
house
.
So
doing
,
you
shall
get
two
seruants
at
once
,
the
one
there
with
you
in
Paris
,
and
the
other
to
receiue
your
commandements
in
England
.
If
you
can
be
pleased
to
satisfie
me
herein
,
I
wish
hee
should
thinke
it
were
done
not
at
any
instance
of
mine
,
but
only
out
of
your
gentlenes
,
séeing
him
reduced
to
that
extremity
which
in
my
iudgement
he
is
in
,
whatsoeuer
shew
hee
makes
.
I
hope
if
you
vouchsafe
to
doe
him
this
honor
,
being
in
such
a
schoole
,
his
debausche
will
turn
to
his
good
.
But
howsoeuer
my
entreaties
run
they
shal
be
alwaies
limited
with
that
saying
of
Cicero
.
Quod
commodo
tuo
facere
possis
.
I
make
no
question
but
there
are
others
that
presse
you
with
such
suites
,
but
none
that
haue
so
much
desire
to
doe
you
all
seruice
as
my selfe
.
Excuse
for
not
comming
to
congratulate
a
friends
returne
:
with
protestation
and
comparison
of
affection
with
the
forwardest
.
To
my
worthy
respected
friend
M.
&c.
SIr
,
it
would
haue
béene
a
point
of
my
duty
to
haue
come
in
person
for
to
haue
welcommed
you
home
.
But
séeing
my
affaires
will
not
permit
it
,
I
haue
sent
the
present
to
supply
that
office
,
and
to
let
you
vnderstand
,
that
albeit
there
bée
many
which
for
their
vertuous
qualities
do
better
deserue
your
loue
,
yet
in
regard
of
my
affection
,
and
the
continuall
desire
I
haue
to
serue
and
honour
you
,
there
is
none
more
worthy
of
it
than
my selfe
.
And
though
you
are
to
hope
for
more
riches
of
spirit
and
fortune
from
them
,
than
from
the
pouerty
of
my
vnderstanding
&
estate
:
yet
are
you
not
to
prefer
their
friendship
vnto
mine
.
For
if
they
outreach
mée
in
merit
,
I
will
go
beyond
them
in
good
will
,
and
if
the
abilities
of
their
mind
bée
more
,
the
sincerity
of
their
heart
shall
bée
lesse
.
But
héerein
you
are
to
imitate
the
liberall
,
who
with
a
frank
and
gentle
will
imparts
of
his
fauours
to
euery
necessity
;
not
as
a
vsurer
to
make
profit
of
them
,
but
onely
out
of
a
kind
and
generous
disposition
;
So
it
is
then
you
should
bee
affected
towards
mée
,
without
any
expectation
of
other
aduantage
by
it
,
than
my
seruice
,
and
you
are
to
doe
it
the
rather
,
in
that
you
feel
your selfe
so
noble
,
rich
,
and
vertuous
,
that
whatsoeuer
you
can
desire
or
wish
for
in
another
,
is
aboundantly
in
your
owne
possession
,
and
you
haue
as
little
néede
of
fortaine
vertnes
,
as
the
sea
hath
of
the
water
of
little
riuers
.
Héereupon
I
will
leaue
to
be
a
further
trouble
vnto
you
,
but
not
to
assure
you
,
that
I
desire
to
liue
no
longer
than
I
shall
desire
To
serue
you
.
Thankfull
acknowledgement
of
kindnesse
vnto
ones
Sonne
.
SIr
,
the
fauours
you
haue
latelie
done
me
are
of
such
effect
and
merit
,
that
I
shall
neuer
be
at
quiet
till
I
haue
made
some
requitall
of
them
.
I
am
ashamed
you
should
be
so
troubled
with
this
sonne
of
mine
,
whom
I
haue
charged
to
obey
you
in
all
things
as
my selfe
,
and
I
pray
you
doe
so
much
as
haue
an
eye
vpon
him
as
if
you
were
his
Father
.
I
thanke
you
very
kindly
for
the
apparell
you
haue
made
him
,
and
the
money
you
haue
paied
for
him
:
you
may
accommodate
him
with
the
rest
of
it
as
you
shall
thinke
good
.
For
,
for
my
part
,
I
giue
you
all
power
ouer
him
,
séeing
you
are
pleased
to
take
the
trouble
vpon
you
,
and
so
wishing
but
to
méet
with
some
good
occasion
to
acknowledge
how
much
I
am
beholding
vnto
you
,
I
commit
you
to
God
.
A
priuate
taxation
of
the
publike
ingratitude
of
great
persons
toward
such
as
haue
best
deserued
of
them
.
SIr
,
Wheras
you
think
it
strange
that
I
write
no
oftner
vnto
the
Lady
you
wot
of
:
I
haue
alwaies
told
you
,
and
now
tell
you
again
that
which
I
was
wont
to
say
of
great
Lords
,
at
such
time
as
they
deserued
it
at
my
hands
,
that
I
remember
their
greatnesse
and
reputation
no
longer
,
than
they
are
mindfull
of
my
necessities
.
Hée
that
makes
no
reckoning
of
me
,
teaches
me
to
neglect
him
,
&
he
that
looks
vpon
me
with
respect
,
giues
me
occasion
and
desire
to
serue
him
:
so
that
I
alwaies
goe
as
others
goe
,
and
no
otherwise
.
You
may
alledge
the
many
commodities
of
their
fauour
and
countenance
,
and
I
may
answer
that
it
were
an
idle
thing
for
me
to
trouble
my
head
with
a
matter
I
am
not
sensible
of
.
Do
vt
des
,
facio
vt
facias
;
saies
the
loue
of
Lawers
:
but
hauing
done
so
many
seruices
,
and
neuer
receiued
so
much
as
a
taste
of
liberality
,
is
the
composition
of
a
water
able
to
quench
the
fire
of
an
hundred
Aetnaes
,
much
more
to
discourage
mée
,
that
otherwise
am
most
readie
by
all
offices
of
courtesie
to
kéepe
the
good
will
of
such
as
please
to
honor
me
with
the
friendship
,
of
which
number
,
to
you
,
as
to
one
of
the
most
especial
,
with
all
affection
I
commend
mee
,
and
bid
you
farewell
.
Excuse
for
not
saluting
a
friend
passing
by
vs
:
endeuouring
(
by
the
way
)
to
wipe
away
his
imputation
of
pride
and
of
forgetfulnesse
.
SIr
,
you
told
my
Cosen
that
either
I
was
growne
proud
,
or
had
forgotten
you
,
because
I
passed
along
by
you
the
other
day
,
and
did
not
speake
.
Now
this
I
perceiue
was
the
cause
why
you
came
not
along
with
the
rest
of
the
company
to
honour
mée
with
your
presence
.
But
you
shall
vnderstand
that
when
I
met
you
,
I
was
so
farre
out
of
patience
with
the
ingratitude
of
a
wicked
friend
,
which
was
newly
parted
from
me
,
that
I
continued
a
whole
wéeke
together
without
the
remembrance
not
onely
of
you
,
but
my selfe
:
which
together
with
the
knowledge
you
are
to
haue
of
my
naturall
humors
,
may
sufficiently
excuse
me
to
either
of
your
opinions
.
Besides
,
I
could
not
forget
a
Gentleman
well
deriued
,
happily
married
,
liuing
with
all
modesty
of
his
owne
,
a
friend
to
euery
man
,
not
medling
nor
making
with
any
,
one
that
is
contented
with
his
estate
,
loues
vertue
and
the
vertuous
,
passeth
away
his
time
with
choice
of
good
companie
,
is
perfect
in
mind
and
memory
,
but
of
body
(
to
my
great
griefe
)
somwhat
weak
and
indisposed
.
Now
iudge
,
Sir
,
whether
I
remember
you
or
no
,
and
be
no
longer
perswaded
that
either
I
am
proud
,
or
forgetful
of
you
:
whose
many
courtesies
haue
bound
me
to
be
alwaies
.
Your
affectionate
friend
and
Seruant
.
A
sad
commemoration
of
some
worthy
friend
deceased
.
To
my
singular
good
friend
.
M.
&c.
SIr
,
the
griefe
of
my
kinsmans
death
hath
gotten
so
much
interest
in
my
apprehension
that
the
comfort
I
was
wont
to
giue
vnto
others
,
is
not
able
now
to
doe
my selfe
any
seruice
.
Reason
disswades
mee
from
sorrow
,
and
sense
prouokes
mée
to
teares
:
my
power
is
small
,
the
frailty
of
the
flesh
great
.
I
desire
to
obey
vnto
the
one
,
the
other
I
cannot
resist
:
so
that
in
the
sedition
of
so
many
contrati●ties
,
I
neither
vnderstand
nor
sée
any
thing
may
content
mée
.
In
regard
of
him
I
haue
no
cause
to
complaine
:
he
lead
the
life
of
a
good
man
,
and
died
the
death
of
the
righteous
:
for
as
the
Romane
Orator
saith
,
It
is
hard
to
liue
well
and
dye
ill
.
But
for
my
part
I
haue
asmuch
reason
to
lament
as
his
vertues
were
without
number
and
end
.
Howbeit
if
for
mine
owne
particular
I
should
grieus
,
wheras
for
his
I
am
much
to
reioyce
,
I
shal
be
thought
rather
enuious
of
his
good
,
then
a
friend
of
his
happines
.
I
assure
my selfe
also
that
you
take
no
pleasure
in
the
death
of
so
curteons
and
worthy
a
Gntleman
,
nor
in
the
losse
you
haue
made
of
one
,
that
for
your
owne
good
parts
and
my
sake
,
loued
you
as
a
friend
,
and
respected
you
as
vertuous
But
not
to
bée
a
cause
either
of
more
trouble
to
you
,
or
heauinesse
to
my selfe
,
I
will
cease
to
speake
further
of
him
,
and
commending
you
to
God
very
kindly
take
my
leaue
.
A
gratefull
acknowledgement
of
an
especiall
fauour
from
any
great
man
.
To
my
very
Honourable
good
Lord
the
Lord
&c.
MY
Lord
I
haue
receiued
the
commendations
you
were
pleased
to
send
mee
by
my
brother
C.
than
the
which
there
is
no
fauour
I
could
more
desire
.
Henceforward
I
shall
begin
to
think
better
of
my selfe
séeing
so
noble
and
honourable
a
person
hath
thought
mee
worthy
of
a
place
in
his
remembrance
:
which
in
truth
was
more
requisite
for
a
continuance
of
your
goodnesse
,
then
for
any
merit
at
all
of
mine
.
Howsoeuer
I
giue
your
Lordship
as
humble
thanks
for
it
as
possibly
I
may
,
albeit
I
am
perswaded
that
neither
with
words
nor
effects
I
shall
euer
bée
able
to
satisfy
so
great
an
obligatiou
.
This
fauor
hath
cleared
mee
of
some
doubt
I
was
in
,
for
that
I
receiued
no
answere
to
the
letter
I
wrote
not
long
since
,
in
congratulation
of
your
Lordships
so
deserued
aduancements
,
together
with
an
humble
presentation
of
my
seruices
:
but
now
I
perceiue
the
cause
of
it
procéeded
either
from
the
fault
of
your
Secretary
,
or
the
negligence
of
the
post
being
alwaies
well
assured
that
no
greatnes
whatsoeuer
could
elate
your
mind
more
then
it
would
be
deiected
by
any
aduersity
the
worst
of
time
could
bring
.
I
haue
nothing
to
adde
hereunto
but
an
humble
entreaty
,
that
as
you
were
pleased
to
remember
mee
with
your
commendations
,
so
you
would
vouchsafe
to
honour
mee
with
your
commandements
,
thereby
to
giue
action
to
the
desire
I
alwaies
haue
of
appearing
vnto
the
world
how
much
I
am
.
Vnfainedly
deuoted
to
your
seruice
.
A
short
and
sweet
consolation
in
the
death
of
Friends
.
SIr
,
as
soone
as
I
vnderstood
of
the
death
of
M.
G.
I
began
to
thinke
of
you
,
and
how
many
times
I
had
sayd
to
my selfe
,
séeing
you
alwaies
in
company
together
,
like
the
signe
of
Gemini
,
behold
an
example
of
true
and
perfect
friendship
.
But
since
it
hath
pleased
heauen
to
diuide
you
:
I
would
wish
you
to
beare
it
with
patience
,
and
be
comforted
.
For
wée
are
not
to
grieue
at
who
goes
first
or
last
in
the
way
which
euery
man
is
to
take
by
a
necessity
of
nature
.
The
world
is
a
residence
lent
vs
by
the
good
pleasure
of
God
,
&
〈◊〉
that
continues
least
in
it
,
is
the
longer
liuing
in
happinesse
.
For
death
doth
determine
in
life
,
so
soone
as
a
righteous
spirit
doth
leaue
that
prison
,
wherein
all
the
miseries
imagination
can
reach
vnto
are
inclosed
.
What
is
there
to
be
séene
héere
vpon
earth
,
but
enuy
,
iniustice
,
ambition
,
strife
,
but
good
manners
corrupted
into
barbarous
conditions
,
children
&
gréefe
,
to
rich
,
a
care
to
poore
parents
,
and
a
desire
for
to
haue
vnto
those
that
haue
none
?
What
is
there
to
bée
séene
but
peace
engendring
war
,
war
shedding
bloud
,
soueraignty
a
pray
to
suspition
,
subiection
the
slaue
of
misery
and
despaire
,
pouerty
despised
,
riches
detracted
,
youth
puffed
vp
with
rage
and
insolency
,
and
age
oppressed
with
infirmity
and
diseases
?
wherfore
the
best
is
not
to
be
at
al
,
or
not
to
be
long
in
the
way
,
prouided
that
it
all
procéed
from
the
good
will
of
God
,
whom
I
humbly
beséech
to
giue
you
that
comfort
and
content
I
alwaies
wish
you
.
A
modest
complement
extenuating
our
owne
desert
in
any
fauour
done
our
friend
,
acknowledging
all
to
be
but
dutie
.
SIr
,
I
sée
no
reason
why
by
your
letters
you
should
thanke
mée
for
the
pleasures
you
say
you
haue
receiued
of
me
,
vnlesse
it
be
to
encourage
me
that
haue
béen
but
slack
that
way
héeretofore
to
doe
better
héereafter
.
To
say
the
truth
,
it
procéeds
from
no
merit
of
mine
,
but
from
a
courtesie
that
was
born
with
you
,
and
will
accompany
you
to
your
graue
.
For
,
for
my
part
I
doe
not
thinke
one
can
bée
beholding
to
a
man
for
doing
his
duty
.
If
you
please
then
you
shall
not
put
these
thanks
vnto
account
,
but
turne
them
into
commandements
:
vpon
him
that
will
alwaies
most
gladly
employ
himselfe
for
you
and
yours
induced
thereunto
both
by
the
friendship
that
hath
euer
béene
betwixt
vs
,
and
a
thousand
other
particularities
,
the
recitall
wherof
would
but
wast
time
and
paper
.
And
wheras
you
write
that
you
feare
you
are
troublesome
vnto
mee
,
considering
the
greatnesse
of
my
affairs
:
the
greatest
trouble
I
can
haue
,
is
when
I
shall
not
be
troubled
for
you
,
if
at
any
time
you
haue
occasion
to
vse
mee
,
as
shall
be
approoued
to
your
experience
in
all
matters
where
the
least
of
my
abilities
may
doe
you
seruice
.
A
gentle
and
easie
submission
to
some
new
direction
or
alteration
of
our
commission
.
To
the
right
honourable
my
especiall
good
Lord
and
Master
The
Lord
&c.
MY
honourable
Lord
,
your
last
of
the
fourth
of
Iulie
came
not
before
this
morning
to
my
hands
,
whereby
I
vnderstand
the
change
of
your
minde
concerning
my
voyage
into
France
:
and
although
for
mine
owne
particular
I
could
haue
wished
it
otherwise
,
yet
reason
perswades
me
to
be
contented
,
assuring
my selfe
that
this
reuocation
is
deriued
from
some
better
resolution
.
Wherefore
I
had
rather
my
desires
should
want
their
end
,
than
your
pleasure
,
that
your
L.
may
alwaies
know
I
hold
more
of
modesty
and
discretion
,
than
of
appetite
and
will
,
and
that
mine
owne
satisfactions
are
nothing
to
the
respect
of
your
greatnes
and
seruice
.
Assoone
as
I
receiued
your
dispatch
,
I
began
to
negotiate
about
the
other
matter
,
and
by
the
next
your
Lordship
shall
vnderstand
what
may
bée
done
.
In
the
meane
time
and
euer
I
remaine
Your
honours
very
humble
and
faithfull
seruant
.
Recommendation
of
a
forward
sonne
to
the
fauour
and
entertainment
of
some
famous
Captaine
in
the
warres
.
SIr
,
albeit
it
were
reason
that
your
not
knowing
me
should
frée
you
from
the
trouble
of
my
Letters
,
yet
since
it
hath
pleased
Sir
William
I.
to
recommend
my
sonne
vnto
you
,
I
thought
I
should
haue
wronged
my
dutie
,
if
I
had
not
accompanied
him
with
the
present
.
I
haue
destined
him
to
the
warres
,
and
hée
hath
béene
about
some
thrée
yéeres
abroad
in
trauell
,
during
which
time
hée
hath
giuen
himselfe
vnto
diuers
noble
exercises
well
be
fitting
his
profession
.
At
his
returne
I
thought
if
hee
could
receiue
so
much
honour
as
to
be
fauoured
by
you
,
hee
might
facilitate
a
way
for
the
time
to
come
,
which
euery
good
and
valiant
minde
is
to
propound
vnto
it selfe
.
And
because
I
know
that
you
are
the
example
of
vertue
,
not
onely
in
the
subiect
of
Armes
,
but
in
euery
other
,
I
beséech
you
to
respect
him
as
the
sonne
of
a
father
,
that
excéedingly
desires
to
find
a
place
in
the
number
of
your
humble
and
most
deuoted
seruants
.
A
Complement
most
officious
and
affectionate
to
a
Lady
concerning
some
serious
affaires
of
hers
.
To
the
noble
and
euery
way
excellent
Lady
,
the
Ladie
&c.
MAdam
,
I
had
rather
effects
should
testifie
the
desire
I
haue
to
doe
you
seruice
,
than
the
courtesie
of
that
good
gentleman
M.
B.
for
so
should
I
both
serue
you
and
satisfie
my selfe
,
whereas
by
the
other
neither
of
vs
reapes
any
commoditie
at
all
.
You
are
no
way
beholding
to
me
for
solliciting
my
Lord
of
N.
or
putting
Sir
George
L.
in
minde
of
your
affaires
.
For
to
the
one
you
haue
no
néed
of
recommendation
,
nor
to
the
other
of
remembrance
.
The
former
(
according
to
his
noble
inclination
)
much
respects
you
,
and
desires
your
honour
and
profit
as
much
as
his
owne
:
and
the
other
,
as
well
to
gratifie
my
said
Lord
,
as
for
his
particular
obligation
to
your
Ladiship
,
wisheth
for
nothing
more
than
occasion
to
doe
you
pleasure
.
It
is
not
therefore
in
so
small
a
matter
as
that
I
desire
to
obey
you
,
but
in
things
of
such
difficultie
,
as
may
shew
how
I
am
euen
couetous
of
receiuing
your
commandements
.
I
will
say
no
more
at
this
time
,
but
wish
my
praiers
could
obtaine
you
such
fortunes
as
your
vertues
deserue
,
and
then
I
am
sure
you
should
be
no
lesse
than
Empresse
of
the
world
.
Only
as
I
was
making
vp
the
present
,
this
inclosed
paper
came
to
my
hands
,
which
I
haue
sent
you
as
a
thing
I
know
you
would
very
faine
sée
.
After
you
haue
read
it
,
I
must
intreat
,
for
some
reasons
,
it
may
be
committed
to
the
custodie
of
the
fire
:
and
so
in
all
dutie
and
affection
I
kisse
your
hand
.
By
the
humble
seruant
of
your
commandements
.
A
pleasant
Ironie
,
in
commendation
of
Law
,
and
the
commodity
of
Law
Suites
.
To
my
dearely
beloued
brother
M.
&c.
GOod
brother
,
I
would
neuer
haue
thought
that
a
suit
in
law
could
haue
brought
so
many
blessings
with
it
as
it
doth
.
Are
you
slothfull
and
lazie
?
make
no
doubt
but
you
shall
finde
matter
enough
to
kéepe
you
from
idlenesse
:
you
néed
no
better
a
raiser
of
you
vp
in
a
morning
than
a
suit
.
Are
you
proud
and
disdainfull
?
I
warrant
you
shall
haue
sufficient
cause
to
court
not
onely
the
Iudges
,
but
your
Counsell
and
Atturney
,
nay
by
my
faith
their
very
Clerke
.
If
of
a
dull
and
heauie
disposition
,
you
shall
méet
with
store
of
inuention
how
to
kéepe
you
out
of
your
enemies
danger
.
If
shamefast
,
necessitie
will
teach
you
rather
to
bée
impudent
than
otherwise
.
If
couetous
,
no
helpe
for
it
in
the
world
like
this
:
for
there
is
no
commoditie
in
the
land
beares
such
a
price
as
the
law
doth
.
A
man
is
to
passe
thorow
so
many
hands
,
and
euery
finger
ketcheth
somewhat
.
Besides
for
the
desire
wee
haue
to
obtaine
our
ends
,
we
neuer
thinke
what
it
will
cost
vs
,
till
we
come
to
the
bottome
of
our
purses
.
I
am
sure
I
haue
made
deare
experience
of
all
this
.
And
they
are
great
blessings
I
must
néeds
say
,
but
God
kéepe
you
from
them
.
Well
I
haue
iested
enough
,
it
is
time
for
me
now
to
tell
you
in
good
earnest
that
I
thinke
there
is
no
passion
more
eager
,
or
that
fils
our
heads
so
full
of
proclamations
as
this
doth
.
I
will
not
except
the
three
torments
of
our
spirit
,
loue
,
ambition
,
and
auarice
:
for
in
this
there
is
a
mixture
of
the
two
last
,
accompanied
with
a
desire
of
reuenge
,
which
produceth
very
maruellous
effects
in
vs
.
The
Italian
saith
,
that
no
man
knowes
what
pleasure
it
is
to
bee
reuenged
,
but
he
that
hath
receiued
the
iniurie
.
A
prettie
controuersie
compounded
in
a
wittie
complement
.
SIr
,
I
know
not
whether
I
should
excuse
the
slacknesse
of
my
pen
,
or
accuse
your
negligence
.
For
my
part
,
the
trouble
of
my
continuall
emploiment
,
well
knowen
both
to
you
and
euery
man
,
may
iustly
cléere
me
of
this
fault
:
but
the
leasure
and
good
commoditie
you
alwaies
haue
to
write
,
cannot
free
you
from
blame
.
Neuerthelesse
,
not
to
cast
away
our
money
in
suits
,
which
you
know
are
euerlasting
,
full
of
hazard
,
and
subiect
to
the
inconstancie
,
ambition
,
and
wickednesse
of
the
most
part
of
the
Lawyers
of
these
times
,
I
am
contented
to
stand
to
the
iudgement
of
your
owne
conscience
;
or
if
you
will
,
like
good
Merchants
that
haue
cléered
accounts
,
let
vs
make
generall
releases
,
so
that
neither
shall
remaine
debtor
to
the
other
.
But
if
you
will
néeds
goe
to
Law
,
I
am
agréed
:
for
hauing
reason
for
my
Atturney
,
and
truth
for
counsell
in
my
cause
,
if
by
the
power
of
bribes
you
corrupt
not
the
Iudges
,
I
doubt
not
but
to
haue
a
verdict
of
my
side
.
Now
of
these
two
waies
I
leaue
the
best
to
your
election
:
assuring
you
,
that
albeit
you
haue
ouercome
mee
with
offices
of
courtesie
,
yet
haue
you
not
gone
beyond
mee
either
in
loue
or
iudgement
,
to
know
that
I
owe
more
to
your
good
will
than
euer
I
shall
be
able
to
furnish
.
But
if
an
honest
minde
alone
could
serue
for
paiment
of
so
many
obligations
,
make
account
I
should
easily
satisfie
greater
debts
than
these
.
Whereupon
I
inuoke
the
grace
of
time
that
may
bring
me
some
such
opportunitie
,
as
may
thorowly
approoue
the
sinceritie
of
my
heart
to
your
experience
.
In
the
meane
space
let
mee
intreat
you
to
giue
mee
occasion
to
doe
you
seruice
:
for
I
cannot
receiue
a
commandement
from
any
friend
vnto
whom
I
more
desire
to
obey
than
your selfe
,
with
the
assurance
whereof
I
will
héere
conclude
,
and
commit
you
to
God
.
A
briefe
answer
to
a
bitter
Complaint
vpon
a
false
ground
.
SIr
,
I
am
sorrie
for
the
wrong
you
doe
your selfe
in
complaining
of
mée
without
cause
.
I
thought
we
should
haue
séene
you
héere
in
the
Countrie
ere
this
,
and
it
gréeues
me
you
came
not
,
as
well
in
regard
I
haue
lost
the
occasion
to
giue
you
the
entertainment
of
my
house
,
as
that
I
might
haue
fréed
you
from
this
passion
of
profit
which
so
detaines
you
from
discerning
the
truth
.
But
since
I
cannot
doe
it
in
person
,
you
are
to
vnderstand
by
this
paper
,
that
I
haue
nothing
to
doe
now
in
the
Office
where
you
are
assigned
the
paiment
of
your
pension
.
I
haue
past
it
ouer
vnto
another
who
can
giue
you
satisfaction
if
hée
will
.
Wherefore
you
haue
no
reason
to
say
you
will
plaine
of
mée
,
seeing
I
haue
done
nothing
but
that
I
should
.
If
this
will
not
content
you
,
within
seuen
or
eight
daies
at
the
farthest
,
I
shall
bée
at
London
,
where
we
may
meet
,
and
conferre
more
at
large
of
matters
.
In
the
meane
time
commending
me
vnto
you
,
I
commit
you
to
God
.
An
earnest
and
elegant
intreaty
,
importuning
the
assistance
of
some
friend
in
any
matter
of
importance
,
and
that
with
expedition
.
To
my
honourable
friend
Sir
Henry
T.
SIr
,
I
will
beginne
with
the
saying
of
Plato
and
Marcus
Cicero
,
because
I
perswade
my selfe
that
the
authoritie
of
such
personages
,
and
the
efficacie
of
their
words
will
bée
of
more
power
and
estéeme
with
you
than
mine
:
although
to
incite
you
to
any
office
of
courtesie
,
whereunto
a
naturall
addiction
makes
you
forward
enough
of
your selfe
,
I
cannot
thinke
there
is
néede
of
more
than
a
bare
and
simple
intreatie
.
Man
(
say
they
)
is
not
borne
for
himselfe
alone
,
but
for
his
Countrey
,
for
his
parents
,
for
his
friends
,
and
for
all
other
men
.
And
euen
as
Nature
,
the
vniuersall
Mother
of
all
things
created
,
doth
not
produce
so
many
kinds
of
beasts
,
herbes
,
trées
,
fruits
,
metals
and
stones
for
her selfe
onely
,
but
fréely
imparts
vnto
vs
of
those
her
riches
:
so
we
that
are
to
imitate
her
liberalitie
,
must
not
bée
sparing
of
those
abilities
and
meanes
which
either
fortune
or
our
owne
vertue
hath
acquired
vs
for
the
good
and
reléefe
of
others
.
This
being
so
,
I
cannot
doubt
that
you
,
in
whom
is
such
a
concurrence
of
excellent
parts
,
will
bée
wanting
to
the
necessitie
of
my
present
affaire
.
And
albeit
the
qualitie
of
my
deserts
,
the
integritie
of
my
heart
,
the
respect
of
my
seruices
,
and
other
points
appertaining
to
the
iudgement
of
liberalitie
,
cannot
induce
you
thereunto
,
yet
let
the
loue
and
obedience
I
haue
euer
born
you
,
supplie
all
other
defects
.
But
that
my
Letter
may
not
runne
out
all
into
preface
,
nor
you
be
wearied
with
the
long
narration
of
a
matter
well
enough
knowen
to
you
alreadie
,
I
will
referre
the
rest
to
the
sufficiencie
and
trust
of
M.
H.
For
séeing
you
vnderstand
my
occasion
,
I
must
hope
you
will
bée
pleased
to
take
order
for
it
,
as
with
much
facilitie
and
very
commodiously
you
may
.
And
because
that
obtaining
this
grace
,
if
withall
,
expedition
bée
not
made
,
it
would
bee
as
good
as
time
lost
:
may
it
please
you
,
hauing
taken
vpon
you
the
one
,
to
vndergoe
the
trouble
of
the
other
,
which
will
bée
of
that
import
in
my
behalfe
,
that
bée
assured
I
shall
bée
your
perpetuall
debtor
for
it
,
notwithstanding
any
satisfaction
in
the
world
I
can
euer
bée
able
to
make
.
Sir
Richard
G.
in
the
exercise
of
this
fauour
,
as
in
all
other
generous
actions
,
will
not
faile
to
second
you
,
since
I
am
so
desirous
to
doe
very
humble
seruice
to
you
both
,
and
to
you
especially
,
and
that
with
all
honour
,
respect
,
and
as
much
affection
,
as
I
earnestly
beséech
the
Almightie
to
adde
many
yéeres
of
prosperitie
to
your
present
happinesse
.
A
kinde
quarrell
of
vnkindnesse
with
a
friend
for
leauing
vs
vnseene
and
vnsaluted
hauing
in
a
manner
passed
by
our
doore
.
To
my
approoued
good
friend
M.
Richard
.
T.
MY
best
friend
your
departure
from
M.
contrary
to
my
hope
and
your
determination
hath
not
so
much
displeased
mee
,
for
the
matter
you
know
of
,
as
in
that
you
passed
along
so
close
by
mee
,
without
taking
possession
of
a
house
,
and
that
,
that
depends
on
it
,
which
is
as
much
at
your
commandement
as
the
very
thoughts
of
your
heart
,
but
especially
in
that
you
let
flip
an
occasion
to
experience
how
much
I
desire
to
acknowledge
the
many
kindnesses
I
haue
receiued
from
you
:
Howbeit
séeing
it
was
your
pleasure
so
to
doe
,
these
letters
shall
make
faith
of
my
good
will
,
farre
readier
to
any
thing
that
concerns
your
reputation
or
profit
,
than
to
write
.
By
this
time
I
beleeue
you
haue
heard
from
my
Gentleman
,
who
it
may
bee
will
shew
himselfe
so
much
my
friend
as
to
make
me
sue
for
my
money
,
if
it
be
so
,
I
pray
tell
him
I
would
not
wish
him
to
giue
me
occasion
,
that
whereas
now
I
talke
to
him
inpriuate
,
I
should
complaine
of
him
in
publike
.
For
there
is
no
reason
I
should
suffer
preiudice
by
anothers
ingratitude
.
I
haue
sent
you
héere
inclosed
the
letter
I
haue
written
vnto
him
vnsealed
,
that
you
may
read
it
and
then
make
it
vp
,
hoping
notwithstanding
that
you
haue
so
preuailed
with
him
,
as
hee
shall
not
néede
to
sée
it
.
If
you
know
any
thing
wherein
I
may
serue
you
,
I
shall
alwaies
bee
more
willing
to
obey
,
then
you
to
command
.
To
the
assurance
whereof
I
leaue
you
,
and
my selfe
to
bée
Euer
truely
your
friend
.
Intercession
for
fauour
and
remission
in
the
behalfe
of
one
that
hath
offended
,
and
is
vnfeignedly
sorrie
for
his
fault
.
SIr
,
not
being
able
(
as
I
had
well
hoped
)
to
obtaine
any
fauour
of
my
Lord
:
for
in
the
behalf
of
the
poore
fellow
,
I
thought
good
to
haue
recourse
vnto
your
intercession
for
him
Hee
is
so
penitent
and
fully
resolued
to
become
a
new
man
,
that
this
good
purpose
of
amendment
in
him
,
together
with
the
punishment
of
his
indurance
,
is
worthy
not
onely
of
excuse
,
but
of
pardon
for
his
fault
.
If
héerein
you
doe
that
which
I
could
not
,
you
shall
bind
me
to
a
continuall
endeuor
to
deserue
it
:
and
the
time
may
come
my
Lord
may
thanke
you
for
the
meanes
you
shall
giue
him
to
exercise
mercy
and
gentlenes
,
which
should
be
conformable
to
the
many
other
noble
qualities
ouer
in
him
.
I
send
you
héere
inclosed
the
latin
verses
,
which
by
your
commandement
I
haue
apparelled
in
English
,
and
that
too
I
assure
you
with
the
best
clothes
in
my
shop
:
but
if
they
be
not
fitting
to
the
greatnes
of
their
quality
,
I
commend
them
to
the
Wardrobe
of
your
most
pretious
ornaments
,
and
you
to
the
protection
of
the
Almighty
.
To
importune
a
friend
to
prosecute
to
perfection
any
businesse
already
begun
.
SIr
,
I
finde
so
much
difficulty
in
the
officers
about
the
payment
of
the
money
,
it
hath
pleased
my
Lord
to
bestow
on
me
,
that
if
you
had
not
béene
the
mediator
of
this
liberality
,
I
feare
I
should
haue
gone
without
.
Wherefore
I
beséech
you
,
as
before
you
were
the
meanes
for
the
grant
of
it
,
so
now
you
would
be
the
meanes
for
the
payment
of
it
:
Which
will
bee
the
easier
for
you
to
doe
,
in
that
the
former
depended
on
the
will
of
another
,
and
this
of
your
owne
.
I
cannot
be
beholding
to
you
for
the
one
without
the
other
,
for
it
will
bée
to
no
purpose
if
they
be
not
ioyned
together
.
I
humbly
entreat
you
then
to
doe
it
,
as
you
are
bound
both
to
the
goodnes
of
your
owne
disposition
still
enclining
to
the
ayd
of
your
friends
,
and
to
me
that
haue
alwaies
desired
to
do
you
seruice
,
as
also
to
the
world
vnto
whom
it
is
not
vnknown
how
much
I
haue
euer
loued
and
respected
you
.
Let
me
not
be
deceiued
in
the
hope
I
haue
alwaies
had
of
your
fauor
,
especially
in
a
matter
that
will
be
very
preiudiciall
to
mee
,
and
no
way
pleasing
to
my
Lord
.
I
will
not
presse
you
farther
at
this
time
,
because
I
am
perswaded
that
my
entreaties
cannot
be
of
more
power
with
you
,
then
your
own
iudgement
which
knows
what
is
fit
for
you
to
doe
,
and
necessary
for
mée
to
haue
done
:
So
that
committing
you
to
that
readines
of
will
I
haue
euer
found
you
accompanied
with
in
all
my
occasions
,
I
rest
,
Yours
alwaies
as
ready
to
serue
you
.
A
particular
account
of
sundrie
businesses
committed
to
ones
care
.
To
the
Worshipfull
my
very
good
Master
M.
R.
S.
&c.
SIr
,
may
you
bee
pleased
to
take
account
of
such
commandements
as
you
charged
mee
withall
at
my
comming
vp
:
of
the
which
to
begin
with
the
money
due
from
M.
B.
I
haue
receiued
it
in
,
and
paid
it
ouer
héere
,
according
to
your
direction
in
that
case
,
to
be
repaid
you
againe
in
the
Countrey
:
for
the
other
bonds
that
are
in
suit
,
your
Atturney
promiseth
that
faithfulnesse
and
care
which
both
you
expect
and
he
in
duty
is
to
haue
.
M.
R.
is
not
yet
in
town
for
there
is
not
any
day
but
I
am
at
his
lodging
to
enquire
after
him
:
to
morrow
or
next
day
hee
is
expected
,
and
hee
shall
bee
no
sooner
come
but
I
will
follow
him
very
close
for
a
dispatch
of
that
businesse
.
I
know
not
well
what
to
say
to
your
suite
with
my
Lord
,
euery
day
begets
new
difficulties
,
and
I
doubt
some
secret
opposition
from
the
party
you
spake
of
when
last
you
discoursed
vnto
mée
of
this
matter
,
and
heerein
,
M.
P.
my
Lords
Secretary
iumps
with
me
in
opinion
,
if
it
be
so
,
he
saith
nothing
will
preuaile
but
your
presence
,
which
if
I
shall
find
to
bée
néedfull
I
will
so
aduertise
you
by
the
next
.
Of
those
things
which
I
am
to
buy
for
my
mistrisse
so
many
as
the
time
and
my
other
employments
would
permit
me
to
prouide
,
I
haue
sent
down
now
by
this
bearer
,
the
rest
God
willing
shall
come
along
with
the
carrier
.
Héere
is
no
newes
at
all
stirring
but
such
idle
stuffe
as
I
would
bée
loth
by
a
deliuery
of
it
to
hold
you
from
your
serious
and
better
employment
.
Wherefore
very
humbly
recommending
my
duty
to
you
,
and
my
good
mistresse
,
I
cease
to
be
a
further
trouble
,
and
rest
Alwaies
your
humble
seruant
.
A
most
Christian
consolation
of
a
friend
in
any
crosse
or
affliction
.
SIr
,
I
cannot
doubt
but
you
are
perswaded
that
the
tribulations
wherewithall
we
are
afflicted
in
this
life
,
doe
not
procéede
from
chance
or
fatall
destiny
,
but
from
a
speciall
prouidence
of
God
,
without
the
which
,
not
so
much
as
an
haire
can
fall
from
any
of
our
heads
,
as
the
Prophet
Amos
doth
insinuate
,
when
hée
saith
,
There
is
no
euill
in
the
City
which
I
haue
not
sent
.
This
also
is
manifested
in
Iob
,
whom
Satan
could
not
touch
without
permission
first
obtained
for
it
.
Afflictions
are
assured
signes
of
election
,
so
that
if
you
obserue
the
whole
course
of
the
Scriptures
,
you
shall
finde
that
those
whom
God
fauoured
most
,
he
alwaies
gaue
to
drinke
of
the
cup
of
his
passion
:
witnesse
Abell
,
persecuted
by
Cain
,
Isaac
by
Ismael
,
Ioseph
by
his
brethren
,
Dauid
by
Absalom
,
and
the
children
of
Israell
by
Pharao
.
Out
of
a
sensible
consideration
whereof
Saint
Paul
said
,
If
we
had
no
other
hope
in
Iesus
Christ
,
but
in
this
present
life
,
wee
might
well
say
wee
were
the
most
miserable
amongst
men
.
But
the
worst
that
wee
endure
is
nothing
in
comparison
of
that
which
God
himselfe
endured
:
who
though
hee
created
all
things
was
termed
the
sonne
of
a
Carpenter
,
was
persecuted
,
was
slandered
,
was
saide
to
be
a
glutton
,
a
drunkard
,
a
louer
of
Publicanes
and
sinners
,
a
wicked
seducer
,
and
one
that
in
the
name
of
Béelzebub
cast
out
Deuills
.
If
wee
consider
what
hee
became
for
vs
,
wee
shall
sée
him
naked
to
cloth
vs
,
a
prisoner
and
in
bonds
to
loose
vs
from
the
chaines
of
darknesse
,
and
a
sacrifice
to
purifie
vs
:
Wee
shall
sée
his
side
opened
to
shut
vp
hell
for
vs
,
wee
shall
sée
those
hands
that
made
heauen
and
earth
,
pierced
with
sharpe
nailes
for
the
loue
of
vs
,
and
his
head
crowned
with
pricking
thornes
to
crowne
vs
with
glory
.
From
his
sorrow
comes
our
ioy
,
from
his
infirmity
our
strength
,
from
his
death
and
buriall
,
our
life
and
resurrection
.
Comfort
your selfe
then
in
the
Lord
,
and
with
patience
beare
the
Crosses
which
it
hath
pleased
him
to
lay
vpon
you
,
for
his
arme
is
not
shortned
,
but
in
his
good
time
will
either
take
you
from
these
miseries
,
or
these
miseries
from
you
.
Now
many
vs
there
yet
liuing
in
the
world
whom
,
oppressed
with
infinite
calamities
,
euery
way
forsaken
,
and
vtterly
boide
of
all
hope
of
succour
,
he
at
length
beheld
with
a
merciful
eye
,
and
hath
placed
them
in
a
farre
better
and
more
contented
estate
than
euer
they
were
in
before
.
Wherefore
trust
in
God
,
and
say
with
that
great
and
holy
martyr
Ignatius
,
Let
●er
,
let
hangmen
,
let
beasts
,
and
all
the
deuils
in
hell
exercise
their
greatest
fury
on
mee
,
so
that
I
may
enioy
the
Lord
my
God
,
whom
in
all
my
prayers
I
will
heartily
beseech
to
giue
you
a
speedy
and
happie
issue
out
of
all
your
troubles
.
An
earnest
recommendation
of
a
well
qualified
seruant
,
to
some
place
worthy
of
his
part
.
To
my
worthy
and
most
expected
friend
M.
&c.
SIr
,
as
long
as
you
shall
bee
accompanied
with
a
desire
to
oblige
mee
vnto
you
,
by
so
many
gentle
offices
of
courtesie
as
continually
you
shew
mée
,
I
shall
neuer
want
boldnesse
to
giue
you
occasion
still
to
doe
it
:
and
the
rather
,
because
I
know
not
any
vnto
whom
I
would
more
willingly
be
beholding
then
to
so
kinde
and
generous
disposition
as
yours
.
The
present
bearer
Philip
A.
is
more
then
ordinarily
affected
to
your
seruice
,
and
knowing
the
loue
and
respect
I
beare
you
,
is
perswaded
that
my
interposure
will
not
bee
a
little
auaileable
in
that
behalfe
,
so
that
hee
hath
very
earnestly
intreated
mee
out
of
my
interest
to
make
him
a
way
to
your
fauour
:
and
I
haue
vndertaken
it
,
for
that
I
make
no
question
but
it
will
turne
to
his
no
little
good
,
and
your
greater
commodity
.
For
he
is
a
ciuil
,
discréet
,
and
very
honest
young
man
,
he
hath
his
latin
tongue
perfect
,
speakes
Italian
,
is
pretily
séene
in
the
French
,
writes
faire
two
or
three
hands
,
sings
well
,
playes
on
the
vyall
,
and
indéed
is
euery
way
better
qualified
than
I
deliuer
him
,
as
will
appeare
to
your
iudgement
,
vpon
the
examination
you
shall
make
of
his
parts
,
to
the
which
I
will
referre
him
,
and
wish
he
may
no
lesse
excéede
the
hope
I
haue
giuen
you
of
him
,
than
you
the
promise
I
haue
made
him
of
your
goodnesse
.
If
I
haue
as
much
power
with
you
,
as
the
world
thinks
,
and
is
due
to
the
greatnes
and
integrity
of
my
affection
,
I
doubt
not
but
to
hear
ere
it
be
long
,
that
this
commendation
of
mine
is
happily
arriued
at
the
port
of
his
deseri
:
Howsoeuer
,
my
entreaty
should
presse
you
further
,
were
I
not
assured
that
you
will
think
you
are
not
to
be
importuned
for
one
that
of
himselfe
is
most
worthy
of
regard
and
your
entertainment
.
Wherefore
to
make
an
end
of
my
sure
and
your
trouble
,
I
will
héere
giue
ende
to
the
present
,
and
allwaies
be
most
desirous
to
do
you
seruice
.
An
amorous
complement
vpon
the
first
sight
,
or
after
some
short
parley
.
SWéetest
Mistresse
F.
assoone
as
it
was
my
good
happe
to
haue
a
sight
of
some
part
of
those
many
graces
and
perfections
,
which
euery
able
iudgement
doth
not
only
commend
,
but
admire
in
you
:
I
was
not
long
in
resoluing
with
my selfe
whether
I
should
serue
and
loue
a
creature
so
rare
and
worthie
to
be
desired
.
But
I
was
longer
in
discoursing
on
the
difference
there
is
betwéene
your
worth
and
my
little
value
,
with
the
small
occasion
you
haue
to
regard
mée
,
considering
I
haue
not
béene
yet
so
fortunate
as
to
méet
with
any
opportunitie
that
might
furnish
mée
with
meanes
to
testifie
vnto
you
how
much
I
am
truly
deuoted
to
your
seruice
.
Neither
could
I
so
soone
resolue
whether
I
might
presume
to
discouer
the
hurt
I
receiued
by
the
encounter
of
your
beauties
,
and
that
affable
patience
which
the
other
day
you
were
pleased
to
accommodate
vnto
my
rude
and
tedious
discourse
,
whereas
you
deserued
the
entertainment
of
a
farre
more
accomplished
spirit
.
Neuerthelesse
,
relying
on
the
greatnesse
and
integritie
of
my
affection
,
and
the
goodnesse
of
your
gentle
disposition
,
I
haue
not
feared
in
all
humilitie
to
make
an
offer
of
that
command
and
power
which
in
so
short
a
time
you
haue
gotten
ouer
me
,
and
which
I
very
humbly
beséech
you
to
accept
of
:
so
shall
you
haue
a
seruant
,
that
in
all
things
will
yéeld
you
as
much
obedience
,
as
now
with
most
zealous
affection
I
kisse
your
faire
and
louelie
hand
.
An
earnest
protestation
of
perpetuall
loue
and
loyaltie
.
To
my
euer
honoured
Mistrisse
Mrs
.
Iane
H.
DEarest
Mistrisse
,
whensoeuer
you
can
enter
into
any
doubt
of
my
loialtie
,
thinke
there
is
no
truth
remaining
on
the
earth
:
for
suspecting
that
,
you
call
euen
certaintie
it selfe
into
question
.
I
will
alwaies
bée
more
readie
to
consent
vnto
the
hate
of
my selfe
,
than
to
the
loue
of
any
other
beautie
,
which
I
know
must
bée
as
farre
inferiour
to
the
perfection
of
yours
,
as
yours
is
aboue
all
others
worthie
and
admirable
.
I
beseech
you
then
to
take
this
assurance
of
your
slaue
,
that
all
the
power
hée
can
euer
haue
ouer
his
life
and
being
,
is
altogether
consecrated
to
your
seruice
,
and
that
heauen
neuer
established
any
thing
more
durable
than
his
inclination
to
honour
you
with
all
the
fidelitie
and
affection
you
can
possibly
desire
:
so
that
the
worst
of
absence
,
fate
,
or
misfortune
,
shall
serue
but
for
better
proofe
and
experience
of
it
:
to
the
which
in
all
humilitie
I
leaue
you
,
and
my selfe
to
be
nothing
when
I
am
not
Wholly
and
only
yours
.
A
sad
extasie
for
the
absence
of
your
Mistrisse
.
To
my
truly-loued
Mistresse
Mrs
.
Mary
S.
I
Did
alwaies
thinke
(
worthie
Mistresse
)
that
amorous
passions
had
their
effects
more
approching
to
extremes
than
any
other
,
and
that
whatsoeuer
proceeded
from
them
could
not
bée
imagined
by
discourse
.
The
experience
which
now
I
so
dearely
make
,
fully
assureth
mée
of
it
.
I
haue
onely
tasted
the
pleasure
one
receiues
from
the
sight
of
a
thing
truly
beloued
,
and
thereby
apprehend
the
perfection
of
content
which
the
fruition
yéelds
.
But
I
am
at
this
instant
so
strangely
touched
with
griefe
for
the
priuation
both
of
the
one
and
the
other
,
that
hée
that
feeles
it
not
,
is
not
able
to
conceiue
it
,
and
hée
that
feeles
it
is
not
able
to
expresse
it
.
I
disgest
it
then
with
as
much
patience
,
as
pleaseth
necessitie
,
but
yet
excéedingly
honoured
in
that
I
suffer
for
so
rare
and
worthie
a
subiect
,
and
liue
,
or
rather
entertaine
the
wearinesse
of
my
life
,
with
so
swéet
a
remembrance
,
and
with
the
representation
of
so
faire
and
Idea
as
yours
.
Prouided
also
,
that
you
chace
not
mine
altogether
from
your
eies
,
but
let
them
sée
the
image
of
your
slaue
so
replenished
with
fidelitie
in
his
seruitude
,
that
it
shall
sooner
faile
in
Heauen
than
in
him
.
And
let
not
(
I
beséech
you
)
your
faire
vnspotted
soule
,
which
alwaies
hath
produced
actions
elonged
and
cléere
from
the
imperfections
of
other
base
and
common
spirits
,
be
subiected
to
the
ordinarie
effects
of
time
and
absence
;
but
rather
liue
contented
with
affecting
him
that
will
die
adoring
you
:
vnto
whom
,
as
hitherto
I
haue
,
so
will
I
euer
be
The
faithfullest
of
all
Seruants
.
A
Loue-letter
,
or
the
summe
of
Louers
Rhetorike
,
in
two
figures
,
viz.
Flatterie
and
Faining
.
To
the
most
accomplished
and
rarely
qualified
Gentle-woman
Mrs
.
Iane
H.
IF
either
the
excellencies
of
your
beautie
were
lesse
,
or
they
lesse
knowen
to
you
than
I
know
they
are
,
I
would
not
maruell
(
fairest
of
all
faire
)
if
the
presumption
of
these
lines
should
giue
you
cause
of
maruell
.
But
where
there
is
such
an
admirable
concurrence
of
perfections
as
in
your
most
accomplished
selfe
;
I
hold
it
impossible
for
any
composition
of
mortalitie
to
be
proofe
against
them
:
from
whence
I
may
well
deriue
an
assurance
,
that
you
cannot
thinke
it
strange
,
if
I
say
,
(
as
indeede
I
truly
may
)
that
notwithstanding
any
opposition
which
by
the
ablest
seconding
of
reason
I
could
make
,
I
finde
my selfe
but
flesh
and
bloud
,
too
weake
a
temper
to
withstand
the
vnresistable
assaults
of
your
preuailing
eies
,
preuailing
I
may
well
terme
them
,
that
in
a
moment
haue
not
onely
depriued
me
of
my
libertie
,
leauing
mee
nothing
frée
saue
the
zeale
of
an
vnfained
deuotion
to
your
seruice
;
but
reduced
my
will
,
and
euerie
power
of
my
soule
vnder
the
subiection
of
such
Lawes
as
shall
please
either
your
rigour
or
mercie
to
ordaine
.
Séeing
then
I
can
haue
no
other
being
but
that
which
would
be
farre
more
wretched
than
wretchednesse
it selfe
,
vnlesse
you
please
to
blesse
it
with
the
happinesse
of
your
fauour
,
then
let
not
the
refusall
of
it
(
I
beséech
you
)
be
the
cause
of
his
death
,
that
cannot
,
nay
that
will
not
liue
without
it
,
but
conferre
such
compassion
and
regard
on
my
sufferings
,
as
the
gracious
swéetnesse
of
your
innated
goodnesse
doth
promise
,
and
as
is
due
to
the
infinitenesse
of
my
affection
:
which
for
faith
and
loyaltie
shall
alwaies
bee
incompatible
of
all
comparison
,
and
for
constancie
so
vnmatched
,
that
neither
time
nor
fortune
,
which
vnto
all
things
vnder
Heauen
bring
alteration
and
end
,
shall
euer
bée
of
power
to
shake
it
with
the
least
motion
of
change
,
or
determine
it
sooner
than
the
latest
instant
of
my
breath
.
And
this
I
vow
with
as
much
resolution
,
as
I
humbly
pray
you
would
vouchsafe
to
let
mée
vnderstand
how
you
please
to
dispose
of
your
creature
,
who
together
with
his
life
and
fortunes
is
and
eternally
will
be
The
very
slaue
of
your
commandements
.
Another
of
like
Argument
.
To
the
faire
,
but
farre
more
vnkind
Gentle-woman
,
Mistrisse
Elizabeth
C.
HAd
I
any
power
left
mée
(
cruell
Beautie
)
ouer
my
desires
,
I
could
bée
contented
to
discourse
alone
with
my selfe
on
the
passion
of
my
too
wretched
condition
,
without
importuning
so
obdurate
an
hart
as
yours
,
that
vnwilling
to
frée
mée
,
taketh
pleasure
to
entertaine
mée
in
it
:
but
since
loue
hath
wholly
reduced
them
vnder
his
lawes
,
and
the
subiection
of
your
commandements
;
pardon
mée
I
beséech
you
,
if
constrained
by
them
,
I
haue
recourse
to
your
pitie
,
as
the
onely
meane
I
can
hope
for
of
deliuerance
from
the
torment
of
my
pains
.
And
were
it
not
proper
to
the
swéetnesse
of
your
disposition
,
yet
you
owe
it
vnto
him
that
honoureth
you
more
than
all
the
world
,
that
adoreth
you
as
the
onely
marke
of
diuinitie
which
hée
acknowledgeth
héere
below
,
that
hath
no
life
but
by
you
,
that
desireth
it
not
but
for
you
,
and
to
be
so
happie
as
to
spend
it
in
your
seruice
:
whereunto
I
am
so
deuoted
,
that
truth
shall
sooner
faile
in
the
ordinances
of
Heauen
,
than
in
this
resolution
of
mine
.
Accept
this
my
deuotion
then
,
and
ruling
it
by
what
Lawes
you
please
,
draw
out
of
it
all
the
proofes
which
either
my
life
or
death
are
able
to
giue
you
.
And
let
not
crueltie
,
that
hath
some
limit
euen
in
those
to
whom
it
is
naturall
,
bée
the
perpetuall
staine
of
your
faire
vertues
,
nor
permit
mée
to
finde
more
grace
in
death
than
in
you
;
who
griened
with
my
miseries
,
may
rather
end
them
by
the
end
of
my
life
,
than
you
by
the
grant
of
your
fauour
,
which
onely
is
of
power
to
make
mee
the
happiest
,
as
without
it
I
am
now
The
most
vnhappiest
of
men
.
Another
not
vnlike
.
OF
all
other
most
cruell
Mistresse
,
to
my
infinite
griefe
I
finde
,
that
no
greater
happinesse
can
arriue
vnto
wretched
louers
,
than
to
meet
with
death
whensoeuer
they
call
for
it
.
Upon
the
writing
of
my
last
vnto
you
,
I
did
not
thinke
the
Bearer
at
his
returne
should
haue
found
mée
aliue
.
And
yet
,
alas
!
I
liue
still
,
but
strangely
grieued
because
I
cannot
die
,
and
that
there
is
no
hope
of
remedie
for
mee
in
any
but
in
you
,
who
it
séemes
taketh
delight
to
entertaine
mée
in
torments
.
My
teares
wherewithall
you
sée
this
paper
all
beblubbered
,
and
my
passions
together
,
will
not
suffer
mee
to
say
any
more
,
but
onely
once
for
all
to
put
my selfe
vpon
your
mercie
,
from
the
which
if
spéedily
I
receiue
not
comfort
,
euer
after
it
will
come
too
late
.
And
this
I
protest
as
farre
from
dissimulation
as
I
am
néere
vnto
mine
end
.
Another
of
the
same
.
To
the
sweet
and
vertuous
Gentle-woman
M
ris
.
&c.
GEntle
Mistris
I.
If
I
did
think
the
enemity
of
our
parents
had
as
much
interest
in
your
thoughts
,
as
loue
hath
in
mine
,
I
would
rather
dye
to
giue
you
satisfaction
,
then
liue
to
be
hated
of
a
gentle
woman
whom
I
affect
and
honour
more
then
all
the
world
.
But
assuring
my selfe
that
so
swéete
and
accomplished
a
beauty
as
yours
,
cannot
bee
accompanied
with
any
such
vnfriendly
disposition
,
as
to
wish
ill
vnto
him
,
that
farre
beyond
all
reach
of
apprehension
is
vnfainedly
deuoted
to
your
seruice
,
I
presume
to
entreate
you
to
haue
so
much
regard
to
your
owne
goodnes
and
the
compassion
of
my
endurings
,
as
to
grant
mee
the
fauour
of
an
accesse
,
that
so
I
may
haue
opportunity
to
acquaint
you
:
more
at
large
with
that
,
which
I
hope
wil
redound
to
your
contentment
,
and
my
infinite
good
.
And
this
mee
thinks
I
should
promise
my selfe
out
of
that
more
than
ordinary
respect
and
good
countenance
which
of
late
it
hath
pleased
you
to
shew
me
,
at
least
wise
,
if
flattering
my selfe
,
I
do
not
wrongfully
apply
that
to
my
particular
aduantage
,
which
is
indifferently
conferred
on
others
by
the
curtesie
of
your
gracious
nature
.
Howsoeuer
in
all
deuotion
I
attend
your
resolution
héerunto
:
and
no
lesse
hartily
beséeching
the
Almighty
to
continue
you
in
his
grace
,
than
I
desire
to
liue
and
dye
in
yours
,
I
commit
you
to
this
assurance
,
that
I
am
no
longer
mine
own
but
Altogether
at
your
disposing
.
Another
,
no
lesse
earnest
,
though
perhaps
lesse
honest
.
To
the
excellent
in
all
beauty
,
beauteous
Mistris
Francis
R.
SO
long
as
I
was
able
by
any
strength
of
reason
or
other
seconding
whatsoeuer
(
fayrest
mistresse
R.
)
to
make
head
against
the
violence
of
those
passions
,
which
for
a
long
time
together
haue
very
strangly
afflicted
me
,
I
neuer
offered
more
than
by
lookes
,
to
discouer
them
vnto
you
,
who
only
are
the
cause
of
them
,
and
onely
can
giue
them
remedy
.
But
now
that
I
finde
my
ablest
forces
to
be
but
a
weake
and
vnprofitable
resistance
against
the
fury
of
my
sufferings
,
which
continually
assault
mee
with
such
apprehensions
of
torments
,
that
all
the
paynes
in
the
world
put
together
,
and
compared
with
them
are
but
light
and
tollerable
,
pardon
mee
,
I
humbly
pray
,
if
casting
my selfe
at
the
féete
of
your
mercy
,
I
presume
with
all
the
vows
of
my
soule
to
employ
such
commiseration
of
my
case
,
as
the
present
extremity
of
it
requires
.
If
you
looke
vnto
my
deserts
,
I
know
them
to
bée
most
vnworthy
of
the
least
regard
.
It
is
not
vpon
them
I
must
stand
(
for
indéede
what
merit
can
stand
before
the
eminence
of
your
worth
)
but
if
you
deigne
to
descend
so
low
as
the
consideration
of
your
seruant
,
looke
I
beséech
you
with
a
pittifull
and
rewarding
eye
vnto
the
integrity
of
my
faith
,
the
resolution
of
my
constancy
,
the
trueth
of
my
affection
,
and
the
vnbounded
zeale
I
leaue
to
the
obedience
of
your
commandement
,
these
are
they
whereupon
I
build
the
hopes
of
your
fauour
,
and
that
is
it
alone
whereunto
all
my
wishes
runne
,
there
is
nothing
to
be
desired
I
so
much
desire
;
in
regard
of
it
the
whole
empire
of
the
world
should
be
of
a
very
vile
and
contemptible
respect
with
me
.
Upon
whom
then
can
you
better
or
more
worthily
conferre
it
,
then
on
him
that
holds
it
in
so
high
an
estimation
,
and
that
by
all
the
duties
of
an
humble
,
loyall
,
and
truly
deuoted
seruice
will
before
all
others
whatsoeuer
euer
séeke
to
continue
you
for
his
swéetest
and
gratious
mistresse
,
as
I
hope
and
infinitely
pray
you
would
bee
pleased
to
appeare
vnto
me
in
your
returne
héereunto
.
Upon
the
expectation
whereof
I
haue
vtterly
disclaimed
all
other
being
,
to
be
Wholly
your
creature
.
A
seemely
answer
to
such
a
Suitor
.
To
Master
H.
SIr
,
if
I
carried
as
little
respect
to
my
husbands
good
,
as
it
appeares
you
haue
care
of
your
owne
safety
,
I
might
quickly
take
a
course
would
prooue
as
preiudiciall
to
you
,
as
the
lewdnesse
of
your
presumption
deserues
.
You
very
much
mistake
me
if
you
take
me
to
be
any
of
those
,
vnto
whom
it
séems
you
make
a
common
practise
of
such
addresses
,
for
by
the
grace
of
God
I
wil
alwaies
beany
thing
sooner
,
than
a
subiect
fitting
for
one
of
your
filthy
disposition
.
I
maruell
what
should
moue
you
to
assaile
me
in
this
sort
?
hath
my
behauiour
béene
so
light
(
for
sure
I
am
I
neuer
exchanged
word
with
you
in
my
life
)
or
my
lookes
so
wanton
to
incourage
you
vnto
it
?
No
,
I
defie
you
,
and
all
the
world
in
that
regard
,
and
I
think
if
I
should
put
it
vpon
your
conscience
,
you
must
say
my
carriage
hath
euer
béen
such
,
as
would
rather
mortifie
then
stirrs
vp
such
wicked
and
vnlawfull
affections
.
But
what
do
I
meane
to
contest
thus
with
a
man
,
that
hath
no
other
ends
or
consideration
then
the
satisfaction
of
his
brutish
desires
,
and
to
that
purpose
would
set
vpon
euen
modesty
and
chastifie
themselues
were
they
to
be
séene
vnder
the
forme
of
women
.
In
a
word
then
,
since
you
perceius
my
inclination
to
be
as
farre
from
yours
,
as
yours
is
from
all
vertue
and
goodnesse
,
I
would
wish
you
,
if
you
loue
your
life
,
to
desist
from
molesting
mée
any
more
in
this
kinde
:
otherwise
be
you
well
assured
I
will
make
you
féele
how
dangerous
it
is
to
attempt
the
honour
of
such
,
as
hold
it
in
a
farre
more
estéeme
than
their
dearest
liues
.
FINIS
.