LETTERS FROM THE RESUSCITATIO. H5 



of those sparks of former acquaintance between us in my 

 brother s time : and now upon the same confidence, finding 

 so fit a messenger, I would not fail to salute you ; hoping 

 it will fall out so happily, as that you shall be one of the 

 king s servants, which his majesty will first employ here with 

 us : where I hope to have some means not to be barren in 

 friendship towards you. We all thirst after the king s coming, 

 accounting all this but as the dawning of the day, before the 

 rising of the sun, till we have his presence. And though 

 now his majesty must be Janus Bifrons, to have a face to 

 Scotland as well as to England, yet &quot; Quod nunc instat 

 agendum :&quot; The expectation is here, that he will come in 

 state and not in strength. So for this time I commend 

 you to God s goodness. 



A Letter to Mr. Robert Kempe upon the Death of 



Queen Elizabeth. 

 [Inserted in this Vol. p. 25.] 



A Letter to my Lord of Northumberland, mention 

 ing a Proclamation drawn for the King, at his 

 Entrance. 



[Inserted in this Vol. p. 103.] 



A Letter to the Earl of Southampton upon the 

 King s Coming in. 



It may please your Lordship, 



I would have been very glad, to have presented my 

 humble service to your lordship by my attendance, if I 

 could have foreseen that it should not have been unpleas- 

 ing unto you. And therefore, because I would commit no 

 error, I chose to write ; assuring your lordship how credible 

 soever it may seem to you at first, yet it is as true as a 

 thing that God knoweth ; that this great change hath 



