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that now since y ou were in your own custody, her majesty, 

 &quot; in verbo regio,&quot; and by his mouth to whom she committeth 

 her royal grants and decrees, hath assured your lordship, 

 she will forbid, and not suffer your ruin. 



6. As I have heard her majesty to be a prince of that 

 magnanimity, that she will spare the service of the ablest 

 subject or peer, where she shall be thought not to stand in 

 need of it; so she is of that policy, as she will not blaze the 

 service of a meaner than your lordship, where it shall 

 depend merely upon her choice and will. 



7. I held it for a principle, that those diseases are 

 hardest to cure, whereof the cause is obscure ; and those 

 easiest, whereof the cause is manifest. Whereupon I con 

 clude, that since it hath been your errors in your lowness 

 towards her majesty which have prejudiced you, that your 

 reforming and conformity will restore you, so as you may 

 be &quot; faber fortunae propriae.&quot; 



Lastly, considering your lordship is removed from 

 dealing in causes of state, and left only to a place of 

 attendance, methinks the ambition of any which can endure 

 no partners in state-matters may be so quenched, as they 

 should not laboriously oppose themselves to your being in 

 court. So as upon the whole matter, I cannot find, neither 

 in her majesty s person, nor in your own person, nor in any 

 third person, neither in former precedents, nor in your own 

 case, any cause of peremptory despair. Neither do I 

 speak this, but that if her majesty out of her resolution 

 should design you to a private life, you should be as 

 willing, upon the appointment, to go into the wilderness, as 

 into the land of promise ; only I wish that your lordship 

 will not despair, but put trust (next to God) in her ma 

 jesty s grace, and not be wanting to yourself. I know your 

 lordship may justly interpret, that this which I persuade 

 may have some reference to my particular, because I may 

 truly say, &quot; tu stante non virebo,&quot; for I am withered in 





