royal blazon or coat of arms
HONI
SOIT
QVI
MAL
Y
PENSE
DIEV
ET
MON
DROIT
THE
COPIE
OF
A
LETTER
TO
THE
RIGHT
HOnourable
the
Earle
of
LEYCESTER
,
Lieutenant
generall
of
all
her
Maiesties
forces
in
the
vnited
Prouinces
of
the
lowe
Countreys
,
written
before
,
but
deliuered
at
his
returne
from
thence
:
With
a
report
of
certeine
petitions
and
declarations
made
to
the
QVEENES
Maiestie
at
two
seuerall
times
,
from
all
the
Lordes
and
Commons
lately
assembled
in
Parliament
.
And
her
Maiesties
answeres
thereunto
by
her selfe
deliuered
,
though
not
expressed
by
the
reporter
with
such
grace
and
life
,
as
the
same
were
vttered
by
her
Maiestie
.
¶
Imprinted
at
London
by
Christopher
Barker
,
Printer
to
the
Queenes
most
excellent
Maiestie
.
1586.
TO
THE
RIGHT
HOnourable
the
Earle
of
Leicester
,
&c.
ALbeit
with
earnest
desire
of
my
hart
(
right
honourable
my
very
good
Lord
)
I
haue
alwayes
endeuoured
to
do
your
Lordship
some
acceptable
seruice
,
for
the
honour
you
first
vouchsafed
me
from
beyond
my
cradel
,
and
after
confirmed
with
the
fauourable
opinion
wherewith
you
haue
alwayes
countenaunced
me
euer
since
,
euen
thus
farre
onward
on
my
daies
,
which
also
together
with
my
yeres
hath
increased
faster
then
mine
abilitie
to
performe
,
being
crossed
in
nothing
more
deepely
,
then
when
I
was
letted
by
the
ouermuch
tendring
of
me
by
my
parents
,
to
attend
your
Lordship
in
your
late
voyage
and
honourable
expedition
into
the
Lowe
Countries
:
yet
haue
I
bene
euer
since
most
studious
to
obserue
and
apprehende
some
good
occasion
,
or
fitte
oportunitie
,
to
testifie
the
duetifull
reuerence
I
beare
to
your
Lordship
:
wherein
if
hitherto
I
haue
beene
slacke
in
performance
during
your
absence
,
it
hath
proceeded
of
the
care
I
had
,
not
to
entertaine
your
Lordship
with
matter
either
friuolous
or
vulgar
:
though
thinges
of
that
nature
might
best
become
my
condition
,
and
well
agree
with
my
vnderstanding
.
In
which
cogitation
it
came
to
my
minde
,
that
the
report
of
the
speaches
deliuered
by
the
Queenes
most
excellent
Maiestie
in
a
late
and
weightie
cause
dealt
in
this
Parliament
,
in
answere
to
the
petitions
presented
to
hir
Maiestie
the
12
&
24.
of
Nouember
at
Richmond
by
the
Lord
Chauncelour
and
Speaker
,
respectiuely
,
in
the
name
and
behalfe
of
both
Estates
,
accompanied
with
diuers
of
either
sort
,
would
doubtlesse
bee
a
thing
to
your
L.
most
gratefull
,
as
one
euer
pleased
iustly
to
admire
the
rare
perfections
of
her
mind
,
and
approoued
Iudgement
,
wherewith
,
according
to
your
Estate
&
place
,
deseruedly
,
your
L.
hath
beene
vsually
acquainted
:
as
also
worthie
of
eternal
monument
and
euerlasting
memorie
,
for
as
much
as
on
the
sodaine
they
were
deliuered
by
her selfe
,
for
answere
of
a
matter
propounded
,
debated
,
resolued
,
and
digested
,
with
great
labour
and
premeditation
,
of
the
greatest
,
grauest
,
wisest
,
and
most
choise
persons
of
the
whole
Realme
.
Whereof
although
I
haue
but
slenderly
purtraied
the
lineaments
,
without
expressing
to
life
the
external
ornaments
of
her
Royall
speach
,
accompanied
with
all
Princely
and
gracefull
accomplementes
:
yet
doubt
I
not
but
your
Lordship
will
easily
finde
her
inward
vertues
,
whereof
it
is
impossible
for
mee
to
make
the
least
adumbration
.
And
because
in
the
dayly
expectation
of
your
Lordships
returne
,
I
rested
vncertaine
how
these
might
come
safely
to
your
Lordships
hands
:
I
did
therefore
aduise
to
haue
this
my
letter
with
the
included
copies
to
be
ready
to
attend
your
first
arriuall
,
in
gratulation
of
the
safetie
thereof
,
which
hath
bene
long
desired
.
Wherein
,
as
I
striue
to
performe
a
particular
duetie
to
your
Lordship
,
so
trust
I
you
will
haue
that
honourable
consideration
,
that
in
the
communication
thereof
with
others
,
there
growe
not
any
preiudice
to
me
for
my
presumption
,
in
aduenturing
to
be
a
reporter
of
that
,
which
in
the
deliuerie
wrought
so
great
astonishment
to
all
the
hearers
,
as
it
exceeded
the
fulnes
of
euery
mans
expectation
:
and
therefore
,
without
some
fauourable
construction
of
mine
attempt
,
I
might
incurre
great
blame
by
my
slender
maner
of
report
,
so
to
haue
blemished
the
excellencie
of
her
Maiesties
speaches
,
whereof
I
humbly
beseech
your
Lordship
to
haue
fauourable
regard
.
Thus
referring
them
to
your
Lordships
disposition
,
and
my selfe
to
your
fauourable
protection
,
I
humbly
take
my
leaue
.
25.
Nouemb.
1586.
Your
Lordships
most
humbly
in
all
duetie
to
commaund
.
R.
C.
THE
BRIEFE
OF
THE
Lorde
CHANCELLERS
first
speach
,
at
the
time
when
he
deliuered
her
most
excellent
MAIESTIE
a
petition
in
writing
,
for
,
and
in
the
name
of
the
Lordes
and
Commons
:
Which
speaches
were
of
more
length
then
here
are
by
me
collected
:
but
sure
I
am
,
the
substance
thereof
is
here
truely
expressed
.
THat
the
Lordes
and
Commons
hauing
of
long
time
to
their
intollerable
griefe
,
found
,
by
howe
many
practises
the
Scottish
Queene
had
compassed
the
destruction
of
her
Highnes
most
Royall
person
(
in
whose
safetie
next
vnder
God
they
acknowledged
their
chiefe
felicitie
to
consist
)
thereby
not
onely
to
bereaue
them
of
the
sincere
and
true
Religion
in
this
Realme
professed
and
established
,
but
to
bring
backe
againe
this
noble
Realme
into
the
thraldome
of
Romish
tyrannie
,
and
to
ouerthrowe
the
happie
estate
thereof
:
wherein
,
although
her
Highnesse
of
her
abundant
gratious
naturall
clemencie
&
Princely
magnanimitie
,
hath
either
lightly
passed
them
ouer
,
or
with
no
small
indulgence
tolerated
,
notwithstanding
the
often
and
earnest
instances
of
her
Nobilitie
and
Commons
in
sudry
Parliaments
heretofore
:
and
further
hath
protected
her
from
the
violent
pursuite
of
her
owne
people
:
she
yet
,
as
a
person
obdurate
in
malice
(
as
it
appeares
,
)
continued
her
former
practises
,
as
had
bene
lately
manifested
by
certaine
wicked
conspiracies
plotted
by
one
Anthonie
Babington
,
and
diuers
desperate
persons
,
that
had
combined
and
confederated
themselues
by
vowe
and
oth
in
a
most
horrible
enterprise
,
by
murther
to
take
away
the
life
of
her
Maiestie
:
wherein
the
Scottish
Q.
did
not
only
aduise
them
,
but
also
direct
,
comfort
,
and
abbette
them
,
with
perswasion
,
counsel
,
promise
of
reward
,
&
earnest
obtestation
.
Whereupon
,
her
Maiestie
at
the
earnest
request
of
such
as
tendered
the
safetie
of
her
royall
person
and
the
quiet
of
the
Realme
,
did
direct
Commission
vnder
the
great
Seale
to
sundrie
Lords
and
others
of
her
Maiesties
priuie
Counsel
,
and
a
great
nomber
of
Lordes
of
Parliament
,
of
the
greatest
and
most
ancient
degree
,
assisted
with
some
of
the
principall
Iudges
of
the
Realme
,
to
heare
,
examine
and
determine
the
same
,
according
to
a
Statute
in
that
behalfe
made
in
the
xxvij
.
yeere
of
her
reigne
.
Who
,
to
the
nomber
of
36.
hauing
attended
the
execution
of
the
said
Commission
,
and
diuers
daies
and
times
heard
the
allegations
against
the
said
Scottish
Queene
in
her
owne
presence
and
hearing
,
(
she
being
permitted
to
say
what
shee
woulde
in
her
owne
excuse
,
)
did
with
one
assent
,
finde
her
culpable
both
in
priuitie
and
consent
to
the
saide
crimes
obiected
,
and
also
in
compassing
the
Queenes
Maiesties
death
.
Which
sentence
,
by
her
owne
directions
vpon
the
hearing
of
the
prooues
and
processe
in
Parliament
,
was
iudged
to
haue
beene
most
honourable
and
iust
,
and
thereupon
they
all
beseech
hir
Maiesty
,
that
forasmuch
as
the
said
Queene
of
Scots
,
was
the
very
ground
and
onely
subiect
,
whereupon
such
daungerous
practises
and
complots
had
bene
founded
,
against
hir
Maiesties
most
Royall
person
and
the
Estate
of
this
Realme
for
these
many
yeeres
,
to
the
ouerthrowe
of
sundrie
of
the
Nobilitie
of
the
land
,
and
danger
of
Christian
religion
,
and
that
they
coulde
see
no
hope
of
her
desisting
,
and
her
adherents
,
hut
that
still
her
Maiesties
safetie
must
bee
hazarded
,
and
stand
to
the
euent
of
the
like
miraculous
discoueries
:
Therefore
,
as
most
humble
and
instant
suppliants
,
they
did
vpon
their
knees
at
her
most
gratious
feete
,
beseech
and
request
in
most
earnest
maner
,
that
aswell
for
the
continuance
of
Gods
Religion
,
the
quiet
of
this
kingdome
,
preseruation
of
her
person
,
and
defence
of
them
and
their
posterities
,
it
woulde
please
hir
Highnesse
to
take
order
,
that
the
saide
sentence
might
be
published
,
and
such
further
direction
giuen
,
as
was
requisite
in
this
so
weightie
a
cause
,
according
to
the
purport
and
intent
of
the
said
Statute
.
Wherin
,
if
her
Maiestie
(
pursuing
her
wonted
clemencie
)
should
nowe
be
remisse
,
besides
the
imminent
danger
to
hir
person
,
she
might
by
the
stay
thereof
,
procure
the
heauie
displeasure
of
Almightie
God
,
as
by
sundry
seuere
examples
of
his
Iustice
in
the
sacred
Scriptures
,
doth
appeare
.
And
so
he
deliuered
,
to
her
Maiesties
owne
handes
,
the
petition
in
writing
,
which
he
said
,
had
bene
with
great
deliberation
assented
vnto
,
by
all
the
whole
Parliament
.
A
SHORT
EXTRACT
OF
such
reasons
,
as
were
deliuered
in
speach
by
Master
Sergeant
Puckering
,
Speaker
of
the
Lower
House
,
before
the
Queenes
most
excellent
Maiestie
in
her
Presence
Chamber
at
Richmond
,
the
xii
.
of
Nouember
1586.
in
the
xxviii
.
yeere
of
her
Reigne
,
containing
diuers
apparant
and
imminent
dangers
,
that
may
grow
to
her
Maiesties
most
Royal
person
,
and
to
her
Realme
from
the
Scottish
Queene
and
her
Adherents
,
if
remedie
be
not
prouided
.
¶
First
,
touching
the
danger
of
her
Maiesties
person
.
1
BOth
this
Scottish
Queene
and
her
fauourers
,
doe
thinke
her
to
haue
right
,
not
to
succeed
but
to
enioy
your
Crowne
in
possession
:
and
therefore
as
she
is
a
most
impacient
competitor
,
so
will
shee
not
spare
any
meanes
whatsoeuer
,
that
may
bereaue
vs
of
your
Maiestie
,
the
onely
impediment
that
she
enioyeth
not
her
desire
.
2
Shee
is
obdurate
in
malice
against
your
royall
person
,
notwithstanding
you
haue
shewed
her
all
fauour
and
mercie
,
as
well
inpreseruing
her
kingdome
,
as
sauing
her
life
,
and
saluing
her
honour
.
And
therefore
there
is
no
place
for
mercie
,
since
there
is
no
hope
that
shee
will
desist
from
most
wicked
attempts
:
the
rather
for
that
her
malice
appeareth
such
,
that
shee
maketh
(
as
it
were
)
her
testament
of
the
same
,
to
be
executed
after
her
death
,
and
appoynteth
her
executors
to
performe
it
.
3
Shee
boldly
and
openly
professed
it
lawfull
for
her
to
mooue
inuasion
vpon
you
.
And
therefore
,
as
of
inuasion
victorie
may
ensue
,
and
of
victorie
,
the
death
of
the
vanquished
:
so
did
shee
thereby
not
obscurely
bewraie
,
that
shee
thought
it
lawfull
for
her
to
destroie
your
sacred
person
.
4
Shee
thinkes
it
not
onely
lawfull
,
but
honourable
also
and
meritorious
to
take
your
life
from
you
,
as
being
alreadie
depriued
of
your
Crowne
by
the
excommunication
of
the
holie
father
.
And
therefore
it
is
like
shee
will
(
as
hitherto
she
hath
done
)
continually
seeke
it
by
whatsoeuer
meanes
.
5
That
shee
is
greedie
of
your
Maiesties
death
,
and
preferreth
it
before
her
owne
life
and
safetie
:
for
in
her
direction
to
one
of
her
late
Complices
,
she
aduised
(
vnder
couert
termes
)
that
whatsoeuer
should
become
of
her
,
that
tragicall
execution
should
be
performed
vpon
you
.
The
danger
of
the
overthrow
of
the
true
Religion
.
1
IT
most
perillous
to
spare
her
,
that
continually
hath
sought
the
ouerthrow
and
suppression
of
true
Religion
,
infected
with
Poperie
from
her
tender
youth
,
and
being
after
that
a
Confederate
in
that
Holy
league
when
she
came
to
age
,
and
euer
since
a
professed
enemie
against
the
trueth
.
2
She
resteth
wholly
vpon
Popish
hopes
to
deliuer
and
aduance
her
,
and
is
thereby
so
deuoted
to
that
profession
,
that
aswell
for
satisfaction
of
others
,
as
for
feeding
of
her
owne
humor
,
she
will
supplant
the
Gospell
,
where
,
and
whensoeuer
she
may
:
which
euill
is
so
much
the
greater
,
and
the
more
to
be
auoyded
,
as
that
it
slayeth
the
very
soule
,
and
will
spread
it selfe
not
onely
ouer
England
and
Scotland
,
but
also
into
those
partes
beyond
the
Seas
,
where
the
Gospell
of
God
is
mainteined
,
the
which
cannot
but
be
exceedingly
weakened
,
by
the
defection
of
this
noble
Ilande
.
The
perill
of
the
state
of
the
Realme
.
1
AS
the
Lydians
saide
,
Vnum
Regem
agnoscunt
Lydi
,
duos
autem
tolerare
non
possunt
:
So
wee
say
,
Vnicam
Reginam
Elizabetham
agnoscunt
Angli
,
duas
autem
tolerare
non
possunt
.
2
As
she
hath
already
by
her
allurements
brought
to
destruction
moe
Noble
men
and
their
houses
,
together
with
a
greater
multitude
of
the
Commons
of
this
Realme
,
during
her
being
here
,
then
she
should
haue
bin
able
to
doe
,
if
she
had
bene
in
possession
of
her
owne
Crowne
,
and
armed
in
the
fielde
against
vs
:
so
will
she
still
be
continuall
cause
of
the
like
spoyle
,
to
the
greater
losse
&
perill
of
this
Estate
:
And
therefore
this
Realme
neither
can
,
nor
may
endure
her
.
3
Againe
,
she
is
the
onely
hope
of
all
discontented
subiects
,
she
is
the
foundation
whereon
all
the
euill
disposed
do
builde
,
she
is
the
roote
from
whence
all
rebellions
and
trecheries
do
spring
:
And
therefore
whilest
this
hope
lasteth
,
this
foundation
standeth
,
and
this
roote
liueth
,
they
will
reteine
heart
,
and
set
on
foote
whatsoeuer
their
deuises
against
the
Realme
,
which
otherwise
will
fall
away
,
die
and
come
to
nothing
.
4
Mercie
now
in
this
case
towards
her
,
would
in
the
ende
proue
crueltie
against
vs
all
,
Nam
est
quaedam
crudelis
misericordia
,
and
therefore
to
spare
her
,
is
to
spill
vs
.
5
Besides
this
,
it
will
exceedingly
grieue
and
in
a
manner
deadly
wound
the
hearts
of
all
the
good
Subiects
of
your
land
,
if
they
shall
see
a
conspiracie
so
horrible
not
condingly
punished
.
6
Thousands
of
your
Maiesties
most
liege
and
louing
Subiectes
,
of
all
sorts
and
degrees
,
that
in
a
tender
zeale
of
your
Maiesties
safetie
,
haue
most
willingly
both
by
open
subscription
and
solemne
vowe
,
entred
into
a
firme
and
loyall
association
,
and
haue
thereby
protested
to
pursue
vnto
the
death
,
by
all
forcible
and
possible
meanes
,
such
as
she
is
by
iust
sentence
nowe
found
to
be
:
can
neither
discharge
their
loue
,
nor
well
saue
their
othes
,
if
your
Maiestie
shall
keepe
her
aliue
:
of
which
burden
your
Maiesties
Subiects
are
most
desirous
to
bee
relieued
,
as
the
same
may
be
,
if
iustice
be
done
.
7
Lastly
,
your
Maiesties
most
louing
&
dutiful
commons
doubt
not
,
but
that
as
your
Maiestie
is
duely
exercised
in
reading
the
Booke
of
God
,
so
it
will
please
you
to
call
to
your
princely
remembrance
,
how
fearefull
the
examples
of
Gods
vengeance
bee
,
that
are
there
to
bee
founde
against
King
Saul
for
sparing
King
Agag
,
and
against
King
Achab
for
sauing
the
life
of
Benadad
:
both
which
were
by
the
iust
iudgement
of
God
depriued
of
their
kingdoms
,
for
sparing
those
wicked
Princes
,
whome
God
had
deliuered
into
their
handes
,
of
purpose
to
be
slaine
by
them
,
as
by
the
ministers
of
his
eternal
and
diuine
Iustice
:
Wherein
full
wisely
Salomon
proceeded
to
punishment
,
when
hee
tooke
the
life
of
his
owne
naturall
and
elder
brother
Adonias
,
for
the
only
intention
of
a
marriage
,
that
gaue
suspition
of
treason
against
him
.
Herein
we
your
Maiesties
most
louing
and
obedient
subiects
,
earnestly
depend
vpon
your
princely
resolution
,
which
we
assure
our selues
shall
be
to
God
most
acceptable
,
and
to
vs
no
other
,
then
the
state
of
your
Regall
authoritie
may
afford
vs
,
and
the
approoued
arguments
of
your
tender
care
for
our
safetie
vnder
your
charge
,
dooth
promise
to
our
expectation
A
REPORT
OF
HER
MAiesties
most
gratious
answere
,
deliuered
by
her selfe
verbally
,
to
the
first
petitions
of
the
Lords
and
Commons
,
being
the
Estates
of
Parliament
,
in
her
Chamber
of
Presence
at
Richmond
,
the
xij
.
day
of
Nouember
1586.
at
the
full
almost
of
xxviij
.
yeeres
of
her
Reigne
:
Whereof
the
Reporter
requireth
of
all
that
were
hearers
,
a
fauourable
interpretation
of
his
intent
,
because
he
findeth
that
he
can
not
expresse
the
same
answerable
to
the
originall
,
which
the
learned
call
Prototypon
.
THE
bottomlesse
graces
and
immeasurable
benefits
bestowed
vpon
me
by
the
Almightie
,
are
,
and
haue
bene
such
,
as
I
must
not
onely
acknowledge
them
,
but
admire
them
,
accounting
them
as
well
miracles
as
benefites
,
not
so
much
in
respect
of
his
diuine
Maiestie
,
with
whome
nothing
is
more
common
then
to
doe
things
rare
and
singular
:
as
in
regard
of
our
weakenesse
,
who
can
not
sufficiently
set
foorth
his
wonderfull
worker
and
graces
,
which
to
mee
haue
bene
so
many
,
so
diuersely
folded
and
imbroydered
one
vpon
another
,
as
in
no
sorte
I
am
able
to
expresse
them
.
And
although
there
liueth
not
any
,
that
may
more
iustly
acknowledge
them selues
infinitely
bounde
vnto
God
then
I
,
whose
life
he
hath
miraculously
preserued
at
sundry
times
(
beyonde
my
merite
)
from
a
multitude
of
perils
and
dangers
:
yet
is
not
that
the
cause
,
for
which
I
count
my selfe
the
deeplyest
bounde
to
giue
him
my
humblest
thankes
,
or
to
yeelde
him
greatest
recognition
:
but
this
which
I
shall
tell
you
hereafter
,
which
will
deserue
the
name
of
wonder
,
if
rare
things
and
seeldom
seene
be
worthie
of
accompt
:
Euen
this
it
is
,
that
as
I
came
to
the
Crowne
with
the
willing
hearts
of
my
subiects
,
so
doe
I
now
after
xxviij
.
yeres
Reigne
,
perceiue
in
you
no
diminution
of
good
willes
,
which
if
happily
I
should
want
,
well
might
I
breath
,
but
neuer
thinke
I
liued
.
And
now
,
albeit
I
finde
my
life
hath
bene
full
dangerously
sought
,
&
death
contriued
by
such
as
no
desert
procured
:
yet
am
I
therein
so
cleare
from
malice
(
which
hath
the
property
to
make
men
glad
at
the
falles
and
faultes
of
their
foes
,
and
make
them
seeme
to
doe
for
other
causes
,
when
rancor
is
the
ground
)
as
I
protest
it
is
and
hath
bene
my
grieuous
thought
,
that
one
,
not
different
in
sexe
,
of
like
Estate
,
&
my
neere
kin
,
shoulde
fall
into
so
great
a
crime
:
yea
,
I
had
so
litle
purpose
to
pursue
her
with
any
colour
of
malice
,
that
as
it
is
not
vnknowen
to
some
of
my
Lordes
here
,
(
for
nowe
I
will
play
the
blabbe
)
I
secretly
wrote
her
a
letter
vpon
the
discouery
of
sundry
Treasons
,
that
if
she
woulde
confesse
them
,
and
priuately
acknowledge
them
by
her
letters
to
my selfe
,
shee
neuer
shoulde
neede
be
called
for
them
into
so
publike
question
.
Neither
did
I
it
of
minde
to
circumuent
her
:
for
then
I
Knew
as
much
as
she
could
confesse
,
and
so
did
I
write
.
And
if
euen
yet
,
nowe
that
the
matter
is
made
but
to
apparant
,
I
thought
she
truely
would
repent
(
as
perhappes
she
would
easily
appeare
in
outwarde
shewe
to
doe
)
and
that
for
her
,
none
other
would
take
the
matter
vpon
them
,
or
that
we
were
but
as
two
milke
maides
with
pailes
vpon
our
armes
,
or
that
there
were
no
more
dependancie
vpon
vs
,
but
mine
owne
life
were
onely
in
danger
,
&
not
the
whole
Estate
of
your
Religion
and
well
doings
,
I
protest
(
wherein
you
may
beleeue
me
,
for
though
I
may
haue
many
vices
,
I
hope
I
haue
not
accustomed
my
tongue
to
be
an
instrument
of
vntrueth
)
I
would
most
willingly
pardon
and
remit
this
offence
.
Or
if
by
my
death
,
other
nations
and
Kingdomes
might
truely
say
,
that
this
Realme
had
attained
an
euerprosperous
&
florishing
estate
:
I
would
(
I
assure
you
)
not
desire
to
liue
,
but
gladly
giue
my
life
,
to
the
ende
my
death
might
procure
you
a
better
Prince
.
And
for
your
sakes
it
is
,
that
I
desire
to
liue
,
to
keepe
you
from
a
worse
.
For
as
for
me
,
I
assure
you
,
I
finde
no
great
cause
I
should
be
fonde
to
liue
:
I
take
no
such
pleasure
in
it
,
that
I
shoulde
much
wish
it
,
nor
conceaue
such
terror
in
death
,
that
I
should
greatly
feare
it
:
and
yet
I
say
not
,
but
if
the
stroke
were
comming
,
perchance
flesh
and
blood
would
be
moued
with
it
,
and
seeke
to
shunne
it
.
I
haue
had
good
experience
and
tryall
of
this
world
:
I
know
what
it
is
to
be
a
subiect
,
what
to
be
a
Soueraigne
:
what
to
haue
good
neighbors
,
and
sometime
meete
euill
willers
.
I
haue
founde
treason
in
trust
,
seene
great
benefits
litle
regarded
,
&
in
stead
of
gratefulnes
,
courses
of
purpose
to
crosse
.
These
former
remembrances
,
present
feeling
,
and
future
expectation
of
euils
,
I
say
,
haue
made
me
thinke
,
An
euill
,
is
much
the
better
,
the
lesse
while
it
endureth
:
and
so
,
them
happiest
,
that
are
soonest
hence
:
&
taught
me
to
beare
with
a
better
minde
these
treasons
,
then
is
common
to
my
sexe
:
yea
,
with
a
better
heart
perhaps
,
then
is
in
some
men
.
Which
I
hope
you
wil
not
meerly
impute
to
my
simplicitie
or
want
of
understanding
,
but
rather
,
that
I
thus
conceiued
,
that
had
their
purposes
taken
effect
,
I
should
not
haue
found
the
blow
,
before
I
had
felt
it
:
and
,
though
my
perill
should
haue
bene
great
,
my
paine
shoulde
haue
bene
but
smal
&
short
:
wherein
,
as
I
would
be
loth
to
dye
so
bloody
a
death
,
so
doubt
I
not
,
but
God
would
haue
giuen
me
grace
to
be
prepared
for
such
an
euent
,
chance
when
it
shall
,
which
I
referre
to
his
good
pleasure
.
And
now
,
as
touching
their
treasons
and
conspiracies
,
together
with
the
contriuer
of
them
,
I
will
not
so
preiudicate
my selfe
and
this
my
Realme
,
as
to
say
or
thinke
,
that
I
might
not
,
without
the
last
Statute
,
by
the
ancient
lawes
of
this
land
,
haue
proceeded
against
her
,
which
was
not
made
particularly
to
preiudice
her
:
though
perhaps
it
might
then
be
suspected
,
in
respect
of
the
disposition
of
such
as
depend
that
way
.
It
was
so
farre
from
being
intended
to
intrap
her
,
that
it
was
rather
an
admonition
to
warne
the
danger
thereof
:
but
sith
it
is
made
,
and
in
the
force
of
a
Lawe
,
I
thought
good
,
in
that
which
might
concerne
her
,
to
proceede
according
thereunto
,
rather
then
by
course
of
common
Law
:
wherein
,
if
you
the
Iudges
haue
not
deceiued
me
,
or
that
the
books
you
brought
me
were
not
false
(
which
God
forbid
)
I
might
as
iustly
haue
tried
her
,
by
the
ancient
Lawes
of
the
land
.
But
you
Lawyers
are
so
nice
in
sifting
and
skanning
euery
woorde
and
letter
,
that
many
times
you
stand
more
vpon
forme
then
matter
,
vpon
sillables
then
sence
of
the
Lawe
.
For
in
the
strictnes
and
exact
folowing
of
common
forme
,
shee
must
haue
beene
indited
in
Stafford
Shire
,
haue
holden
vp
her
hand
at
the
Barre
,
and
bene
tried
by
a
Iurie
:
A
proper
course
forsooth
,
to
deale
in
that
manner
with
one
of
her
Estate
.
I
thought
it
better
therfore
,
for
auoiding
of
these
and
more
absurdities
,
to
commit
the
cause
to
the
inquisition
of
a
good
nomber
of
the
greatest
and
most
noble
personages
of
this
Realme
,
of
the
Iudges
and
others
of
good
accompt
,
whose
sentence
I
must
approoue
:
And
all
litle
enough
:
For
we
Princes
,
I
tel
you
,
are
set
on
stages
,
in
the
sight
and
viewe
of
all
the
world
duely
obserued
:
The
eies
of
many
beholde
our
actions
:
A
spot
is
soone
spied
in
our
garments
:
A
blemish
quickely
noted
in
our
doings
.
It
behooueth
vs
therefore
,
to
be
carefull
that
our
proceedings
bee
iust
and
honourable
.
But
I
must
tell
you
one
thing
more
,
that
in
this
last
Acte
of
Parliament
you
haue
brought
me
to
a
narowe
straight
,
that
I
must
giue
direction
for
her
death
,
which
cannot
be
to
mee
but
a
most
grieuous
and
irkesome
burthen
.
And
least
you
might
mistake
mine
absence
from
this
Parliament
(
which
I
had
almost
forgotten
)
although
there
be
no
cause
why
I
should
willingly
come
amongst
multitudes
,
for
that
amongest
many
some
may
be
euil
:
yet
hath
it
not
bene
the
doubt
of
any
such
daunger
or
occasion
that
kept
me
from
thence
,
but
onely
the
great
griefe
to
heare
this
cause
spoken
of
,
especially
,
that
such
a
one
of
State
and
kin
,
should
neede
so
open
a
declaration
,
&
that
this
nation
should
be
so
spotted
with
blots
of
disloialtie
.
Wherein
the
lesse
is
my
grief
,
for
that
I
hope
the
better
part
is
mine
,
and
those
of
the
worse
not
much
to
be
accompted
of
,
for
that
in
seeking
my
destruction
,
they
might
haue
spoiled
their
owne
soules
.
And
euen
nowe
coulde
I
tell
you
,
that
which
woulde
make
you
sorie
.
It
is
a
secrete
,
and
yet
I
will
tell
it
you
,
although
it
is
knowen
,
I
haue
the
propertie
to
keepe
counsell
,
but
too
well
oftentimes
to
mine
owne
perill
.
It
is
not
long
since
mine
eyes
did
see
it
written
,
that
an
othe
was
taken
within
fewe
daies
,
either
to
kill
mee
or
to
be
hanged
themselues
:
&
that
to
be
performed
ere
one
moneth
were
ended
.
Hereby
I
see
your
danger
in
me
,
and
neither
can
nor
wil
be
so
vnthankfull
or
carelesse
of
your
consciences
,
as
not
prouide
for
your
safetie
.
I
am
not
vnmindeful
of
your
oth
made
in
the
association
,
manifesting
your
great
goodwils
&
affections
taken
and
entred
into
,
vpon
good
conscience
,
&
true
knowledge
of
the
guilt
,
for
safety
of
my
person
,
&
conseruation
of
my
life
:
done
(
I
protest
to
God
)
before
I
heard
it
,
or
euer
thought
of
such
a
matter
,
vntil
a
great
nomber
of
handes
with
many
Obligations
were
shewed
mee
,
at
Hampton
Court
,
signed
and
subscribed
with
the
names
and
seales
of
the
greatest
of
this
lande
:
which
as
I
doe
acknowledge
as
a
perfect
argument
of
your
true
heartes
,
and
great
zeale
to
my
safetie
:
so
shall
my
bonde
be
stronger
tied
to
greater
care
for
all
your
good
.
But
for
as
much
as
this
matter
is
rare
,
waightie
,
and
of
great
consequence
,
I
thinke
you
doe
not
looke
for
any
present
Resolution
:
the
rather
,
for
that
,
as
it
is
not
my
manner
,
in
matters
of
far
lesse
moment
,
to
giue
speedy
answer
without
due
consideration
:
so
in
this
of
such
importance
,
I
thinke
it
verie
requisite
with
earnest
Prayer
to
beseech
his
diuine
Maiestie
,
so
to
illuminate
my
vnderstanding
,
and
inspire
me
with
his
grace
,
as
I
may
doe
and
determine
that
,
which
shall
serue
to
the
establishment
of
his
Church
,
preseruation
of
your
estates
,
and
prosperitie
of
this
common
wealth
vnder
my
charge
.
Wherein
(
for
that
I
knowe
delaie
is
dangerous
)
you
shal
haue
with
all
conueniencie
our
Resolution
deliuered
by
our
message
.
And
what
euer
any
Prince
may
merite
of
their
Subiects
,
for
their
approoued
testimonie
of
their
vnfained
sinceritie
,
eyther
by
gouerning
iustly
,
voide
of
all
partialitie
,
or
sufferance
of
any
iniuries
done
(
euen
to
the
poorest
)
that
doe
I
assuredly
promise
inuiolablie
to
performe
,
for
requitall
of
your
so
many
desertes
.
❧
The
occasions
of
the
second
accesse
.
This
Answere
thus
made
by
her
Maiestie
,
the
Lords
and
Commons
were
dismissed
.
And
then
her
Highnesse
some
fewe
dayes
after
,
vpon
deliberation
had
of
this
Petition
,
being
(
as
it
appeared
)
of
her
mercifull
disposition
of
nature
,
and
her
Princely
magnanimitie
,
in
some
conflict
with
her selfe
what
to
doe
in
a
cause
so
weightie
and
important
to
her
and
the
Realme
,
sent
by
the
Lorde
Chauncelour
(
as
I
heard
)
and
by
the
mouth
of
an
Honorable
person
,
and
a
right
worthy
member
of
the
lower
house
,
this
message
to
both
houses
:
mouing
and
earnestly
charging
them
,
to
enter
into
a
further
consideration
,
whether
there
might
not
be
some
other
way
of
remedy
,
then
that
they
had
already
required
,
so
farre
disagreeing
from
her
owne
naturall
inclination
.
Whereupon
,
the
Lords
and
Commons
in
either
houses
assembled
,
had
sundry
consultations
,
both
in
their
seuerall
houses
generally
,
and
by
priuate
Committees
deputed
specially
,
and
after
conference
had
betwixt
the
sayd
Committees
,
it
was
resolued
with
vnanimitie
of
consent
amongst
them
in
the
lower
house
,
and
by
vniuersall
concorde
in
the
vpper
house
,
(
the
question
there
propounded
to
euery
one
of
the
Lords
)
that
there
could
be
found
no
other
sound
and
assured
meane
,
in
the
depth
of
their
vnderstanding
,
for
the
continuance
of
the
Christian
religion
,
quiet
of
the
Realme
,
and
safetie
of
her
Maiesties
most
Royall
person
,
then
that
which
was
conteined
in
their
former
petition
.
The
reasons
whereof
,
were
summarily
these
that
followe
:
which
are
more
shortly
reported
,
then
they
were
vttered
.
A
BRIEFE
REPORT
OF
the
second
accesse
the
24.
of
Nouember
1586.
and
of
the
answere
made
in
the
name
of
the
Lords
of
Parliament
,
to
a
message
sent
from
hir
MAIESTIE
by
the
L.
Chauncelour
after
hir
first
answere
.
THE
Lord
Chauncelour
accompanied
with
aboue
fiue
or
sixe
and
twentie
Lords
of
Parliament
,
came
before
her
Highnes
in
her
Chamber
of
presence
,
to
deliuer
the
resolution
of
all
the
Lords
of
Parliament
,
concerning
a
message
which
he
had
not
long
before
deliuered
from
her
Maiestie
,
for
further
consultation
,
whether
any
other
meanes
could
be
thought
of
,
or
found
out
by
any
of
them
,
how
the
Scottish
Queenes
life
might
be
spared
,
and
yet
her
Maiesties
person
saued
out
of
perill
,
and
the
state
of
the
Realme
preserued
in
quiet
,
declared
,
that
according
to
that
he
had
receiued
in
commandement
from
her
Maiestie
,
he
had
imparted
the
same
to
the
Lordes
assembled
in
the
vpper
house
,
whome
he
found
by
their
generall
silence
much
amazed
at
the
propounding
thereof
,
considering
the
same
had
bene
before
in
deliberation
amongst
them
,
and
resolued
vpon
,
&
as
appeared
by
their
former
petition
exhibited
to
her
Highnesse
,
wherein
they
had
expressed
the
same
resolution
.
Notwithstanding
,
for
her
Maiesties
further
satisfaction
,
they
had
entred
into
a
newe
consultation
,
and
for
that
purpose
selected
a
great
nomber
of
the
choysest
persons
of
that
higher
house
of
Parliament
,
to
conferre
thereof
,
either
priuatly
or
together
with
the
lower
house
:
which
also
was
done
accordingly
at
seueral
times
.
At
all
which
conferences
it
was
concluded
by
them
all
,
and
so
afterwards
by
the
whole
assembly
of
both
houses
,
that
there
could
be
no
other
assured
meanes
for
the
preseruation
of
her
Maiesties
life
,
&
continuance
of
Gods
Religion
,
&
quiet
of
this
State
,
then
by
the
full
execution
of
the
sentence
according
to
their
former
petition
,
instantly
pressing
her
Maiestie
with
many
arguments
&
reasons
tending
thereto
,
all
which
,
though
by
distance
from
his
Lordship
I
could
not
wel
conceiue
,
yet
this
I
did
remember
precisely
&
especially
was
one
,
that
as
it
were
iniustice
to
denie
execution
of
Law
,
at
the
suit
of
any
one
particular
,
and
the
meanest
of
her
people
:
so
much
more
,
not
to
yeelde
to
the
earnest
instance
and
humble
prayers
of
all
her
faithful
and
louing
subiects
.
And
so
concluded
,
with
earnest
petition
for
her
Maiesties
resolute
determination
and
answere
,
for
a
present
and
speedy
direction
by
proclamation
,
and
otherwise
also
,
according
to
the
forme
of
the
statute
.
A
SVMMARIE
REPORT
of
the
second
speech
,
vttered
by
the
Speaker
of
the
Lower
House
,
by
direction
of
all
the
Commons
.
THat
if
her
Maiestie
should
be
safe
without
taking
away
the
life
of
the
Scottish
Queene
,
the
same
were
most
likelie
and
probably
to
grow
,
by
one
of
these
meanes
following
.
-
1
First
,
that
happily
she
might
be
reclaimed
and
become
A
repentant
conuert
,
agnising
her
Maiesties
great
mercie
and
fauours
in
remitting
her
heynous
offence
,
and
by
her
loyaltie
hereafter
,
performe
the
fruites
of
such
conuersion
.
-
2
Or
els
,
by
a
more
Strayght
guard
be
so
kept
,
as
there
shoulde
be
no
feare
of
the
like
attempts
hereafter
.
-
3
Or
,
that
good
assurance
might
be
giuen
by
Othe
,
Bonds
or
Hostages
,
as
cautions
for
her
good
and
loyal
demeanour
from
henceforth
.
-
4
Or
lastly
,
by
Banishment
,
the
realme
might
be
voyded
of
her
person
,
and
thereby
the
perils
further
remoued
,
that
growe
to
her
Maiestie
by
her
presence
.
The
moments
whereof
being
duely
pondered
,
did
yet
appeare
so
light
in
all
their
iudgements
,
that
they
durst
not
aduise
any
securitie
to
rest
in
any
,
no
not
in
all
of
them
.
For
touching
her
conuersion
,
it
was
considered
,
that
if
pietie
or
duetie
could
haue
restreined
her
from
such
heynous
attempts
,
there
was
cause
abundantly
ministred
to
her
on
Maiesties
behalfe
,
when
she
not
onely
protected
her
against
the
violence
of
her
own
subiects
,
who
pursued
her
to
death
by
Iustice
,
but
couered
her
honor
,
when
the
same
by
publique
fame
was
touched
,
&
by
very
heynous
and
capitall
crymes
obiected
and
proued
against
her
before
certeine
Commissarie
delegates
assigned
to
examine
the
same
,
more
then
blemished
,
&
spared
her
lyfe
,
when
for
her
former
conspiracies
&
confederacies
with
the
Northren
Rebelles
,
her
highnesse
was
with
great
instance
pressed
by
both
the
houses
in
the
xiiii
.
yeere
of
her
Maiesties
reigne
,
to
do
like
iustice
vppon
her
,
as
nowe
is
desired
,
and
as
her
treasonable
practises
then
,
had
most
iustly
deserued
.
And
where
the
penaltie
of
this
Acte
sufficiently
notified
vnto
her
,
should
haue
terrified
her
from
so
wicked
attempts
,
she
hath
neuerthelesse
insisted
in
her
former
practises
,
as
a
person
obdurate
in
malice
against
her
Maiestie
,
and
irrecouerable
:
so
as
there
was
no
probable
hope
of
any
conuersion
,
but
rather
great
doubt
and
feare
of
relaps
and
recidiuation
,
forasmuch
as
she
stood
obstinately
in
the
deniall
of
matter
most
euidently
prooued
,
and
now
most
iustly
sentenced
against
her
,
and
was
not
entred
into
the
first
part
of
repentance
,
The
recognition
of
her
offence
,
and
so
much
the
farther
off
from
the
true
fruites
that
should
accompany
the
same
.
As
for
a
surer
guard
,
and
more
strait
imprisonment
,
it
was
resolued
,
that
there
was
no
security
therein
,
nor
yet
in
the
other
two
meanes
propounded
of
bonds
and
hostages
:
for
asmuch
as
the
same
meanes
that
shoulde
bee
practised
to
take
her
Maiesties
life
away
(
which
God
forbid
)
would
aptly
serue
both
for
the
deliuery
of
her
person
,
&
release
of
the
bonds
&
hostages
that
should
be
giuen
for
cautions
in
that
behalfe
:
which
being
vnhappily
atchieued
,
and
to
our
irreparable
losse
,
who
shoulde
sue
the
bonds
,
or
deteine
the
hostages
?
or
being
deteined
,
what
proportion
was
there
in
bonds
or
hostages
whatsoeuer
,
to
counteruaile
the
value
of
so
precious
and
inestimable
a
Iewel
,
as
her
Maiestie
is
to
this
Realme
,
and
to
vs
all
?
But
she
will
solemnly
vowe
and
take
an
othe
,
that
she
will
not
attempt
any
thing
to
the
hurt
of
her
Maiesties
person
:
Shee
hath
already
sundry
times
falsified
her
worde
,
her
writing
and
her
othe
,
and
holdeth
it
for
an
article
of
religion
,
That
faith
is
not
to
be
holden
with
heretikes
,
of
which
sort
shee
accompteth
your
Maiestie
,
and
all
the
professors
of
the
Gospel
to
be
:
And
therefore
haue
we
litle
reason
to
trust
her
in
that
,
wherof
shee
maketh
so
small
a
conscience
.
As
for
banishment
,
that
were
a
step
à
malo
in
peius
to
set
her
at
libertie
:
a
thing
so
greatly
desired
and
thirsted
for
by
her
adherents
,
and
by
some
Princes
her
Allies
,
who
sought
her
enlargement
chiefly
,
to
make
her
a
head
to
be
set
vp
against
her
Maiesty
,
in
time
of
inuasion
.
To
the
which
were
added
some
fewe
reasons
,
collected
out
of
her
owne
letters
&
the
confession
of
Babington
,
her
instrument
and
chiefe
conspiratour
:
by
which
appeared
,
howe
her
owne
conscience
bewrayed
what
might
iustly
fal
vpon
her
,
in
case
any
of
her
intended
desseignements
came
to
light
:
that
shee
might
haply
bee
shut
vp
in
some
more
close
and
straite
prison
,
as
the
Towre
of
London
,
if
there
befell
her
no
worse
thing
:
and
in
that
she
directed
Babington
,
in
case
he
failed
in
the
action
of
her
deliuery
,
that
he
should
neuerthelesse
proceede
in
the
residue
,
which
was
the
death
of
her
Maiestie
:
who
also
confessed
,
that
vpon
assurance
of
her
Maiesties
death
,
or
the
arriuall
of
strangers
,
he
intended
to
proclaime
of
Q.
of
Scots
,
and
made
no
doubt
of
the
desired
successe
:
and
therefore
,
her
Maiesties
death
being
so
earnestly
sought
,
for
aduancement
of
this
competitor
,
her
Highnes
could
not
remaine
in
quietnes
or
securitie
,
if
the
Scottish
Queene
should
longer
continue
her
life
.
THE
SECOND
ANSWERE
made
by
the
Queenes
Maiestie
,
deliuered
by
her
owne
mouth
,
to
the
second
speeche
,
vttered
in
the
names
of
the
Lords
&
Commons
of
the
Parliament
.
FVL
grieuous
is
the
way
,
whose
going
on
and
end
,
breede
comber
for
the
hire
of
a
laborious
iourney
.
I
haue
striued
more
this
day
then
euer
in
my
life
,
whether
I
shoulde
speake
,
or
vse
silence
.
If
I
speake
and
not
complaine
,
I
shal
dissemble
:
if
I
holde
my
peace
,
your
labour
taken
were
full
vayne
.
For
mee
to
make
my
mone
,
were
strange
and
rare
:
for
I
suppose
you
shal
finde
fewe
,
that
for
their
owne
particular
,
will
comber
you
with
such
a
care
.
Yet
such
I
protest
hath
bene
my
greedy
desire
and
hungrie
will
,
that
of
your
consultation
might
haue
fallen
out
some
other
meanes
to
woorke
my
safetie
ioyned
with
your
assurance
,
(
then
that
for
which
you
are
become
such
earnest
sutors
)
as
I
protest
,
I
must
needes
vse
complaint
,
though
not
of
you
,
but
vnto
you
,
and
of
the
cause
:
for
that
I
do
perceiue
by
your
aduises
,
prayers
,
and
desires
,
there
falleth
out
this
accident
,
that
Onely
my
Iniuerers
bane
,
must
be
my
lifes
suertie
.
But
if
any
there
liue
so
wicked
of
nature
,
to
suppose
,
that
I
prolonged
this
time
onely
,
proforma
,
to
the
intent
to
make
a
shew
of
clemencie
,
thereby
to
set
my
prayses
to
be
wyer
drawers
to
lengthen
them
the
more
:
they
doe
me
so
great
a
wrong
,
as
they
can
hardly
recompence
.
Or
if
any
person
there
be
,
that
thinke
or
imagine
,
that
the
least
vayneglorious
thought
hath
drawen
mee
further
herein
,
they
doe
me
as
open
iniurie
as
euer
was
done
to
any
liuing
creature
,
as
he
that
is
the
maker
of
all
thoughtes
,
knoweth
best
to
be
true
.
Or
if
there
bee
any
,
that
thinke
,
that
the
Lords
appoynted
in
Commission
durst
do
no
other
,
as
fearing
thereby
to
displease
,
or
els
to
be
suspected
to
be
of
a
contrary
opinion
to
my
safetie
,
they
doe
but
heape
vpon
me
iniurious
conceites
.
For
either
those
put
in
trust
by
me
to
supplie
my
place
,
haue
not
haue
signified
vnto
you
all
,
that
my
desire
was
,
that
euery
one
should
do
according
to
his
conscience
,
&
in
the
course
of
his
proceedings
should
enioy
both
freedome
of
voyce
&
libertie
of
opinion
:
&
what
they
would
not
onely
declare
,
they
might
priuately
to
my selfe
haue
reuealed
.
It
was
of
a
willing
minde
&
great
desire
I
had
,
that
some
other
means
might
be
found
out
,
wherein
I
should
haue
taken
more
comfort
,
then
in
any
other
thing
vnder
the
Sunne
.
And
since
nowe
it
is
resolued
,
that
my
suretie
can
not
bee
established
without
a
Princesse
ende
,
I
haue
iust
cause
to
complaine
,
that
I
,
who
haue
in
my
time
pardoned
so
many
Rebels
,
winked
at
so
many
treasons
,
and
either
not
produced
them
,
or
altogether
slipt
them
ouer
with
silence
,
shoulde
nowe
be
forced
to
this
proceeding
,
against
such
a
person
.
I
haue
besides
,
during
my
reigne
,
seene
and
heard
many
opprobrious
bookes
and
Pamphlets
against
me
,
my
Realme
and
State
,
accusing
me
to
be
a
Tyrant
:
I
thanke
them
for
their
almes
:
I
beleeue
,
therein
their
meaning
was
to
tell
me
newes
,
and
newes
it
is
to
me
in
deede
:
I
would
it
were
as
strange
to
heare
of
their
impietie
.
What
will
they
not
now
say
,
when
it
shal
be
spread
.
That
for
the
safety
of
her
life
,
a
Mayden
Queene
could
be
content
to
spill
the
blood
,
euen
of
her
owne
kinsewoman
?
I
may
therfore
ful
wel
complaine
,
that
any
man
should
thinke
mee
giuen
to
crueltie
,
whereof
I
am
so
guiltlesse
and
innocent
,
as
I
should
slaunder
God
,
if
I
should
say
he
gaue
me
so
vile
a
minde
:
yea
,
I
protest
,
I
am
so
farre
from
it
,
that
for
mine
owne
life
I
would
not
touche
her
:
neither
hath
my
care
bene
so
much
bent
howe
to
prolong
mine
,
as
how
to
preserue
both
,
which
I
am
right
sory
is
made
so
hard
,
yea
,
so
impossible
.
I
am
not
so
voide
of
iudgement
,
as
not
to
see
mine
owne
perill
:
nor
yet
so
ignorant
,
as
not
to
knowe
it
were
in
nature
a
foolish
course
,
to
cherish
a
sworde
to
cutte
mine
owne
throate
:
nor
so
carelesse
,
as
not
to
weigh
that
my
life
dayly
is
in
hazard
:
but
this
I
do
consider
,
that
many
a
man
would
put
his
life
in
daunger
for
the
safegarde
of
a
King
,
I
doe
not
say
that
so
will
I
:
but
I
pray
you
thinke
,
that
I
haue
thought
vpon
it
.
But
sith
so
many
haue
both
written
and
spoken
against
mee
,
I
pray
you
giue
me
leaue
to
say
somewhat
for
my selfe
,
and
before
you
returne
to
your
countries
,
let
you
know
,
for
what
a
one
you
haue
passed
so
careful
thoughts
.
Wherin
,
as
I
thinke
my selfe
infinitely
beholding
vnto
you
al
,
that
seeke
to
preserue
my
life
by
al
the
meanes
you
may
:
so
I
protest
vnto
you
,
that
there
liueth
no
Prince
,
that
euer
shall
be
more
mindefull
to
requite
so
good
desertes
.
And
as
I
perceyue
you
haue
kept
your
olde
wonts
,
in
a
general
seeking
of
the
lengthning
of
my
dayes
:
so
am
I
sure
that
I
shall
neuer
requite
it
,
vnles
I
had
as
many
liues
as
you
all
:
but
for
euer
I
will
acknowledge
it
,
while
there
is
any
breath
left
mee
.
Although
I
may
not
iustifie
,
but
may
iustly
condemne
my
sundry
faults
and
sinnes
to
God
:
yet
for
my
care
in
this
gouernment
,
let
me
acquaynt
you
with
my
intents
.
When
first
I
tooke
the
Scepter
,
my
title
made
me
not
forget
the
giuer
:
and
therefore
began
,
as
it
became
me
,
with
such
religion
,
as
both
I
was
borne
in
,
bred
in
,
&
I
trust
shal
die
in
.
Although
I
was
not
so
simple
,
as
not
to
know
what
danger
and
perill
so
great
an
alteration
might
procure
me
:
howe
many
great
Princes
of
the
contrary
opinion
woulde
attempt
all
they
might
against
me
:
and
generally
,
what
enimitie
I
should
breede
vnto
my selfe
:
which
all
I
regarded
not
,
knowing
that
he
,
for
whose
sake
I
did
it
,
might
,
and
would
defend
me
.
For
which
it
is
,
that
euer
since
I
haue
bene
so
daungerously
prosecuted
,
as
I
rather
maruaile
that
I
am
,
then
muse
that
I
should
not
be
:
if
it
were
not
Gods
holy
hand
that
continueth
me
,
beyond
all
other
expectation
.
Then
entred
I
further
into
the
schoole
of
experience
,
bethinking
what
it
fitted
a
King
to
do
:
and
there
I
saw
,
he
scant
was
wel
furnished
,
if
either
he
lacked
Iustice
,
Temperance
,
Magnanimitie
,
or
Iudgement
.
As
for
the
two
latter
,
I
wil
not
boaste
,
my
sexe
doeth
not
permit
it
:
But
for
the
two
first
,
this
dare
I
say
,
Amongst
my
subiects
I
neuer
knew
a
difference
of
person
,
where
right
was
one
:
Nor
neuer
to
my
knowledge
preferred
for
fauour
,
whome
I
thought
not
fit
for
worth
:
Nor
bent
my
eares
to
credite
a
tale
that
first
was
tolde
me
:
Nor
was
so
rash
,
to
corrupt
my
iudgement
with
my
censure
,
before
I
heard
the
cause
.
I
wil
not
say
,
but
many
reports
might
fortune
be
brought
mee
by
such
as
might
heare
the
case
,
whose
partialitie
might
marre
sometime
the
matter
:
For
wee
Princes
may
not
heare
all
our selues
.
But
this
dare
I
boldly
affirme
,
My
verdit
went
euer
with
the
trueth
of
my
knowledge
.
As
ful
well
wished
Alcibiades
his
friende
,
that
hee
should
not
giue
any
answere
,
till
he
had
recited
the
letters
of
the
Alphabet
:
so
haue
I
not
vsed
ouer
sudden
resolutions
,
in
matters
that
haue
touched
me
full
neere
:
you
wil
say
that
with
me
,
I
thinke
.
And
therfore
,
as
touching
your
counsels
and
consultations
,
I
conceiue
them
to
bee
wise
,
honest
,
and
conscionable
:
so
prouident
and
careful
for
the
safetie
of
my
life
(
which
I
wish
no
longer
then
may
be
for
your
good
,
)
that
though
I
neuer
can
yeeld
you
of
recompence
your
due
:
yet
shall
I
endeuour
my selfe
to
giue
you
cause
,
to
thinke
your
good
wil
not
ill
bestowed
,
&
striue
to
make
my selfe
worthy
for
such
subiects
.
And
now
for
your
petition
,
I
shal
pray
you
for
this
present
,
to
content
your selues
with
an
answere
without
answere
:
Your
iudgement
I
condemne
not
,
neither
do
I
mistake
your
reasons
,
but
pray
you
to
accept
my
thankfulnesse
,
excuse
my
doutefulnesse
,
and
take
is
good
part
my
answere
answerelesse
:
wherein
I
attribute
not
so
much
to
mine
owne
iudtgemēt
,
but
that
I
thinke
many
particular
persons
may
go
before
me
,
though
by
my
degree
I
go
before
them
.
Therefore
if
I
should
say
,
I
would
not
doe
what
you
request
,
it
might
peraduenture
be
more
then
I
thought
:
and
to
say
I
would
do
it
,
might
perhaps
breed
perill
of
that
you
labour
to
preserue
,
being
more
then
in
your
owne
wisdomes
and
discretions
would
seeme
conuenient
,
circumstances
of
place
and
time
being
duely
considered
.
royal blazon or coat of arms
HONI
SOIT
QVI
MAL
Y
PENSE
DIEV
ET
MON
DROIT
Imprinted
at
London
by
Christopher
Barker
,
Printer
to
the
Queenes
most
excellent
Maiestie
.
1586.