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both the grace and the safety from blame of such a council 

 to err in caution : whereunto add, that it may be they, or 

 some of them, are not without envy towards the person who 

 is used in treating the accord. Next, because the time of 

 this treaty hath no shew of dissimulation, for that Tyrone is 

 now in no streights, but like a gamester that will give over 

 because he is a winner, not because he hath no more money 

 in his purse. 



Lastly, I do not see but those articles whereon they 

 ground their suspicion, may as well proceed out of fear as 

 out of falsehood, for the retaining of the dependence of the 

 protracting the admission of a sheriff, the refusing to give 

 his son for hostage, the holding from present repair to 

 Dublin, the refusing to go presently to accord, without in 

 cluding O Donell, and others his associates, may very well 

 come of a guilty reservation, in case he should receive hard 

 measure, and not out of treachery ; so as if the great person 

 be faithful, and that you have not here some present intelli 

 gence of present succours from Spain, for the expectation 

 whereof Tyrone would win time, I see no deep cause of 

 distrusting the cause if it be good. And for the question, 

 her majesty seemeth to me a winner three ways: first, her 

 purse shall have rest : next, it will divert the foreign designs 

 upon that place : thirdly, though her majesty is like for a 

 time to govern precario in the north, and be not in true 

 command in better state there than before, yet besides the 

 two respects of ease of charge, and advantage of opinion 

 abroad, before mentioned, she shall have a time to use her 

 princely policy in two points : in the one, to weaken by 

 division and disunion of the heads; the other, by recovering 

 and winning the people by justice, which of all other causes 

 is the best. Now for the Athenian question, you discourse 

 well, &quot; Quid igitur agendum est l n I will shoot my fool s 

 bolt, since you will have it so. The Earl of Ormond to be 

 encouraged and comforted above all things, the garrisons to 



