8 LETTERS FROM THE CABALA. 



and zealous mind to bestow their duties therein ; he will see 

 them accordingly appointed of sufficiency convenient for the 

 rank and standing where they shall be employed : so as, 

 under this her majesty s blessing, I trust to receive a larger 

 allowance of God s graces. And as I may hope for this, so 

 I can assure and promise for my endeavour, that it shall not 

 be in fault; but what diligence can entitle me unto, that! 

 doubt not to recover. And now seeing it hath pleased her 

 majesty to take knowledge of this my mind, and to vouch 

 safe to appropriate me unto her service, preventing any 

 desert of mine with her princely liberality ; first, I humbly 

 do beseech your lordship, to present to her majesty my more 

 than humble thanks for the same : and withal, having regard 

 to mine own unworthiness to receive such favour, and to the 

 small possibility in me to satisfy and answer what her majesty 

 conceiveth, I am moved to become a most humble suitor to 

 her majesty, that this benefit also may be affixed unto the 

 other ; which is, that if there appear in me no such toward- 

 ness of service, as it may be her majesty doth benignly value 

 and assess me at, by reason of my sundry wants, and the 

 disadvantage of my nature, being unapt to lay forth the 

 simple store of those inferior gifts which God hath allotted 

 unto me, most to view : yet that it would please her excel 

 lent majesty, not to account my thankfulness the less, for 

 that my disability is great to shew it ; but to sustain me in 

 her majesty s gracious opinion, whereupon I only rest, and 

 not upon any expectation of desert to proceed from myself 

 towards the contentment thereof. But if it shall please 

 God to send forth an occasion whereby my faithful affection 

 may be tried, I trust it shall save me labour for ever 

 making more protestation of it hereafter. In the mean 

 time howsoever it be not made known to her majesty, yet 

 God knoweth it, through the daily solicitations wherewith I 

 address myself unto him, in unfeigned prayer, for the mul 

 tiplying of her majesty s prosperities. To your lordship also, 



