10 LETTERS FROM THE CABALA. 



covering her majesty s favour ; and as if the best of your 

 condition were to live a private and retired life, out of 

 want, out of peril, and out of manifest disgrace. And so, 

 in this persuasion to your lordship- wards, to frame and 

 accomodate your actions and mind to that end : I fear (I 

 say) that this untimely despair may in time bring forth a 

 just despair, by causing your lordship to slacken and break 

 off your wise, loyal and seasonable endeavour and industry 

 for redintegration to her majesty s favour, in comparison 

 whereof, all other circumstances are but as atomi, or ra 

 ther as a vacuum, without any substance at all. 



Against this opinion, it may please your lordship to con 

 sider of these reasons, which I have collected ; and to make 

 judgment of them, neither out of the melancholy of your 

 present fortune, nor out of the infusion of that which 

 cometh to you by other s relation, which is subject to much 

 tincture, but &quot; ex rebus ab ipsis,&quot; out of the nature of the 

 persons and actions themselves, as the truest, and less 

 deceiving, ground of opinion. For, though I am so un 

 fortunate as to be a stranger to her majesty s eye, much 

 more to her nature and manners, yet by that which is extant 

 I do manifestly discern, that she hath that character of the 

 divine nature and goodness, as &quot; quos amavit, amavit usque 

 ad finem ;&quot; and where she hath a creature, she doth not 

 deface nor defeat it : insomuch as, if I observe rightly, in 

 those persons whom heretofore she hath honoured with her 

 special favour, she hath covered and remitted, not only 

 defections and ingratitudes in affection, but errors in state 

 and service. 



2. If I can, scholar-like, spell and put together the parts 

 of her majesty s proceedings now towards your lordship, I 

 cannot but make this construction; that her majesty, in her 

 royal intention, never purposed to call your doings into 

 public question, but only to have used a cloud without a 

 shower, and censuring them by some restraint of liberty, 



