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hath great abundance of welth, and likewise your Grace 



hath many gentlemen which are poore and lacke living, 

 and we that lacke are well able to doe good service, 

 your Grace might doe well to looke upon him, and 

 make him to helpe those that want. Immediately the 

 Duke sendeth forth to inquire of his wealth : and if it 

 be so proved, he shall be called before the Duke, and 

 it shall bee sayd unto him, friend, you have too much 

 living, and are unserviceable to your prince, lesse will 

 serve you, and the rest will serve other men that are 

 more able to serve, whereupon immediately his living 

 shal be taken away from him, saving a little to find 

 himselfe and his wife on, and he may not once repine 

 thereat : but for answere he will say, that he hath 

 nothing, but it is Gods and the Dukes Graces, and 

 cannot say, as we the common people in England say, 

 if wee have any thing ; that it is Gods and our owne. 

 Men may say, that these men are in wonderfull great 

 awe, and obedience, that thus one must give and grant 

 his goods which he hath bene scraping and scratching 

 for all his life to be at his Princes pleasure and com- 

 mandement. Oh that our sturdie rebels were had in 

 the like subjection to knowe their duety towarde their 

 Princes. They may not say as some snudges in Eng- 

 land say, I would find the Queene a man to serve in 

 my place, or make his friends tarrie at home if money 

 have the upper hand. No, no, it is not so in this 

 countrey: for hee shall make humble sute to serve the 

 Duke. And whom he sendeth most to the warres 

 he thinketh he is most in his favour : and yet as I 

 before have sayde, he giveth no wages. If they knewe 

 their strength no man were able to make match with 

 them : nor they that dwel neere them should have any 

 rest of them. But I thinke it is not Gods will : For 

 1 may compare them to a young horse that knoweth 

 not his strength, whome a little childe ruleth and guideth 

 with a bridle, for all his great strength : for if hee did, 

 neither childe nor man could rule him. Their warres 



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