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than I would, in regard of sickness, I began to remember, 

 that neither your business nor mine, (though great and 

 continual,) can be, upon an exact account, any just 

 occasion why so much good-will as hath passed between us 

 should be so much discontinued as it hath been. And 

 therefore, because one must begin, I thought to provoke 

 your remembrance of me, by my letter. And thinking how 

 to fit it with somewhat besides salutations, it came to my 

 mind, that this last summer by occasion of a factious book 

 that endeavoured to verify, &quot; Misera faemina&quot; (the ad 

 dition of the Pope s bull) upon queen Elizabeth ; I did 

 write a few lines in her memorial, which I thought you 

 would be well pleased to read, both for the argument, and 

 because you were wont to bear affection to my pen. 

 &quot; Verum, ut aliud ex alio,&quot; if it came handsomely to pass, 

 I would be glad the President De Thou (who hath written a 

 history, as you know, of that fame and diligence) saw it ; 

 chiefly because I know not, whether it may not serve him 

 for some use in his story ; wherein I would be glad he did 

 right to the truth, and to the memory of that lady, as I 

 perceive by that he hath already written, he is well inclined 

 to do ; I would be glad also, it were some occasion (such as 

 absence may permit) of some acquaintance or mutual notice 

 between us. For though he hath many ways the prece 

 dence, (chiefly in worth,) yet this is common to them both, 

 that we may serve our sovereigns in places of law eminent, 

 and not ourselves only, but that our fathers did so before 

 us; and lastly, that both of us love learning, and liberal 

 sciences, which was ever a bond of friendship, in the 

 greatest distances of places. But of this I make no farther 

 request, than your own occasions and respects (to me 

 unknown) may farther or limit, my principal purpose being 

 to salute you, and to send you this token, whereunto I will 

 add my very kind commendations to my lady. And so 

 commit you both to God s holy protection. 



