116 LETTERS FROM THE RESUSCITATIO. 



wrought in me no other change towards your lordship than 

 this ; that I may safely be now that which I was truly 

 before. And so craving no other pardon, than for troubling 

 you with my letter, I do not now begin to be, but continue 

 to be, 



Your Lordship s humble and much devoted. 



A Letter to the Earl of Northumberland, after he 

 had been with the King. 



It may please your good Lordship, 



I would not have lost this journey, and yet I have not 

 that I went for. For I have had no private conference to 

 purpose with the king. No more hath almost any other 

 English : for the speech, his majesty admitteth with some 

 noblemen, is rather matter of grace than matter of business ; 

 with the Attorney he spake, urged by the Treasurer of Scot 

 land, but no more than needs must. After I had received 

 his majesty s first welcome, and was promised private access, 

 yet riot knowing what matter of service your lordship s letter 

 carried (for I saw it not), and well knowing that primeness 

 in advertisement is much, I chose rather to deliver it to 

 Sir Thomas Heskins than to cool it in mine own hands 

 upon expectation of access. Your lordship shall find a 

 prince the furthest from vain glory that may be ; and rather, 

 like a prince of the ancient form than of the latter time : 

 his speech is swift and cursory, and in the full dialect of his 

 country, and in speech of business short, in speech of dis 

 course large : he affecteth popularity, by gracing such as 

 he hath heard to be popular, and not by any fashions of his 

 own. He is thought somewhat general in his favours ; and 

 his virtue of access is rather because he is much abroad and 

 in press than that he giveth easy audience. He hasteneth 

 to a mixture of both kingdoms and occasions, faster per- 



