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because the one had well framed his minde, the other 

 onely his body. Many other like examples I could 

 alledge at this present, if I knew not unto whom I now 

 wrote, or in what : for your honour being skilfuU in 

 histories, and so familiarly acquainted with the matter 

 it selfe, that is in still entertaining learned men with all 

 curtesie, I should seeme to light a candle at noone tide, 

 to put you in remembrance of the one, or to exhort you 

 to doe the other, dayly being accustomed to performe 

 the same. Crassus sayth in Tullies first booke, De 

 Oratore : that a Lawyers house is the oracle of the whole 

 citie. But I can justly witnesse, that for these five yeeres 

 last past, since my returne from my travell beyond the 

 seas, that your lodging in the Court (where I through 

 your undeserved goodnesse to my great comfort do dayly 

 frequent) hath bene a continuall receptacle or harbour 

 for all learned men comming from both the eyes of the 

 realme, Cambridge, and Oxford (of the which University 

 your lordship is Chanceller) to their great satisfaction of 

 minde, and ready dispatch of their sutes. Especially for 

 Preachers and Ministers of true religion : of the which 

 you have beene from time to time not onely a great 

 favourer, but an earnest furtherer, and protectour : so 

 that these two nurseries of learning (in one of the which 

 I have before this spent part of my time, that I may 

 speake boldly what I thinke) should wrong your honour 

 greatly, and much forget themselves, if by all meanes 

 possible they should not heerafter (as at this present to 

 their smal powers many well learned gentlemen of them 

 do) labour and travell in shewing of themselves thanke- 

 full, to reverence and honour your lordship, and honest 

 their owne names : whose studies certeinly would suddenly 

 decay and fall flat, if they were not held up by such 

 noble proppes, and had not some sure ankerholds in their 

 distresse to leane unto. How ready dayly your travell 

 is, and hath long beene besides to benefit all other 

 persons, in whom any sparke of vertue or honesty re- 

 maineth, I need not labour to expresse, the world 



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